Actress Lori Loughlin was released from a federal prison in Dublin on Monday after serving a two-month sentence for her part in the university’s confession scandal that federal investigators called Operation Varsity Blues.
It was not clear what time Loughlin left prison, but a prison official confirmed to NBC Bay Area that she had been released.
Loughlin turned herself in to federal authorities nearly three weeks early in late October after publicly apologizing for her role in a widespread cheating scandal in which several celebrities paid large sums of money to take their children to elite universities under false pretenses. to get.
Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Gianniulli reportedly paid $ 500,000 to get their two daughters admitted to the University of Southern California under the guise of athletic recruiting for the school’s team.
Gianniulli is still serving his five-month term in a federal prison in Lompoc, California.
The actress and her designer husband have also paid hefty fines and committed to hundreds of hours of community service.
Loughlin was part of the prison’s general population and was to be tested for COVID-19. Like other inmates at the facility, she was limited to no visitors due to the pandemic.
The prison had a coronavirus outbreak that affected 185 of the 900 inmates, along with three prison officials.
Dublin prison is the same facility where actress Felicity Huffman served 12 days in October 2019 for her part in the university admissions scandal.