Olivia Jade seems keen to play with fire in pissing off federal prosecutors. But then again, this is the same girl who had the chutzpah to get Mommy and Daddy to allegedly spend half a million dollars to buy her way into USC. It should come as no surprise that she has the hubris to think that this hot garbage constitutes a comeback.
The college admissions crackdown is no ordinary scandal, but Jade seems to have forgotten that her parents’ literal freedom from jail time may be on the line. And, increasingly, hers may be too.
A myopic person, or, say, one too dumb to get into a B-list university on her own or use proper punctuation to get her requested patents processed, would see such an Insta post as a clapback against tabloid reports that Kappa Kappa Gamma kicked her out of the house. A smarter person would realize the following:
- When given the option to take a plea deal and publicly apologize, parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli rejected it and palled around with the paparazzi. The duo, who now regret the move and reportedly wish to broker another deal, face dozens of years of jail time. In contrast, fellow celeb Felicity Huffman, who took the initial deal and issued an earnest statement of contrition, likely faces no more than four months of jail time.
- Federal prosecutors have not yet charged any of the students involved in the scheme, but letters targeting adult children involved signal that they may indeed charge those willingly involved in the plan.
- When one is attempting to prove to federal prosecutors that despite an abundance of evidence demonstrating that you willfully broke the law out of sheer entitlement and you still deserve a modicum of mercy because maybe, just maybe, you learned your lesson, you act as humble and apologetic as possible.
Instead, Olivia Jade has literally done what celebrities flouting the law have done for a century: flipped off the public and our free press. Why? Because she’s a spoiled brat who thinks that she’s above the law.
On that second point, it’s important to know that during the most damning period of Jade’s involvement, she was still a few months shy of 18. It remains unclear whether she knew the details of the scheme, but what we do know is that she willingly posed for photos on an indoor rowing machine, presumably in professional gear, meaning that either she was in on the scam or she’s just criminally stupid.
Still, given Jade’s continued correspondence with the brains behind the operation for many months after she turned 18, according to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, it’s possible that the Feds may bring down the hammer on her as well. That will show other social-influencing wannabes who think they can buy themselves a semi-prestigious MRS degree.
It would be warranted, and more importantly, it’d be effective.
