Judge OKs Lori Loughlin’s request to serve prison sentence near California home

When the star of “Full House” goes to the big house, it will be near her own house.

Actress Lori Loughlin will serve her two-month prison sentence at a facility close to her home in California, a federal judge has ruled.

FCI Victorville — which offers inmates such amenities as pilates, yoga and lessons in a variety of musical instruments — was the actress' first choice as it’s the federal prison closest to her new mansion in the Los Angeles suburb of Hidden Hills, court records show. She and her co-defendant husband, Mossimo Giannulli, bought the $9.5 million property just before being sentenced in the national college admissions scandal last month.

The 56-year-old, who bribed her daughters' way into college, must surrender to prison by 2 p.m. on Nov. 19.

U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton granted her lockup request with the condition that the facility is “commensurate with the appropriate security level,” though the Federal Bureau of Prisons is expected to give final approval.

Giannulli, who was sentenced to five months behind bars, will be sent to the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex in Santa Barbara County, court filings show.

The high-profile couple admitted paying $500,000 to get their girls into the University of Southern California as fake crew team recruits, one of the most shocking cases among a series of similar college bribery incidents unveiled by the feds in March 2019.

The still-ongoing investigation, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” has netted dozens of arrests and multiple convictions for former athletic coaches, college administrators and wealthy parents like Loughlin and fellow actress Felicity Huffman.

Loughlin and Giannulli, a 57-year-old prominent fashion designer, worked with admitted mastermind William “Rick” Singer and his bogus charity to sneak their teenage daughters into USC through a scam that included fake resumes and staged photos of the girls posing on rowing machines. Neither daughter, Olivia Jade or Isabella Giannulli, had any competitive rowing experience.

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After more than a year fighting the charges in a Boston federal court, the couple finally confessed to the crimes in May and took a plea deal that saved them from facing a jury.

“I made an awful decision,” Loughlin told the judge in her sentencing hearing last month. “I went along with a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage in the college admissions process. In doing so, I ignored my intuition and allowed myself to be swayed from my moral compass.”

Just days before the sentencing, she and her husband bought a contemporary farmhouse in a gated community in Hidden Hills, with nearly 12,000 square-feet of living space, six bedrooms, a walk-in wine cellar, movie theater and other amenities. The purchase came weeks after they sold their Bel Air home for about $18.7 million to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen.

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