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Lilia Buckingham is reflecting on the infamous college admissions scandal following Netflix launching its documentary about the situation. The 17-year-old social media personality took to Twitter on Tuesday, March 23 to weigh in on criticism that she feels is unfairly aimed at her. In October 2019, Lilia's mom, Jane Buckingham, was sentenced to three weeks in prison for her role in the scandal. "sometimes i get sad bc i will never live down something that i didn't even do," Lilia tweeted, adding a slanty-face emoticon. A few minutes later, she posted, "things were mentally scarring to the kids who took no part in it, and still had to deal with the trauma and pain that came...

Update, 10:54 Pm: A guilty-pleading Felicity Huffman will soon have what could be one of her final days in court in the elite schools admission scandal.

A May 21 plea hearing has been set for the Desperate Housewives actor in the wide spread and ongoing probe into wealthy parents paying to get their kids into top colleges under false athletic pretense or false exam scores.

Having declared that she is guilty of the conspiracy charge that federal prosecutors hit the Emmy winner with last month, Huffman expressed “shame” and “deep regret” earlier this week. Now, the actor will stand in front of U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani next month in Boston in clear hopes of avoiding the maximum sentence of 20 years she’s facing.

As Deadline reported last week, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts are pretty stuck on seeing Huffman and other parents snared...

The worlds of entertainment, business, sports and academia were rocked by the recent revelation that wealthy parents such as Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin allegedly paid college admissions consultant Rick Singer large sums to get their children into elite colleges. New developments in the scandal, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI, continue to pop up.

Here are some of the most significant things that have happened in the wake of the scandal.

Lori Laughlin Dropped by “Fuller House” and Hallmark”

Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 to USC to have their two daughters falsely designated as recruits. Laughlin will not be returning as Aunt Becky in Netflix’s “Fuller House,” a role she reprised from the original series “Full House.” Hallmark has also severed ties with the actress, who appears regularly in the channel’s series “When Calls the Heart” and “Garage Sale Mysteries.

Olivia Munn is taking aim at the parents involved in the nationwide college bribery admissions scandal — including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

The 38-year-old actress tweeted her views on Thursday, writing, “What these parents did wasn’t for love, it was for fancy diplomas.”

“Love would’ve made you spend that money on tutors to make your kids smarter, giving them an actual education,” she continued.

What these parents did wasn't for love, it was for fancy diplomas. Love would've made you spend that money on tutors to make your kids smarter, giving them an actual education.

— Olivia Munn...

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were both arrested for alleged involvement in a massive college bribery scandal, but their mugshots likely won’t see the light of day.

Policies set in place by the Department of Justice and U.S. Marshals Services prohibit either organization from releasing booking photos when a person has already been apprehended, according to USA Today.

The U.S. Marshals Services may only release photographs for “law enforcement purposes,” according to a 2012 policy.

“Once a prisoner has been arrested, the general rule is that no release should be made because release of photographs of that prisoner to...

Felicity Huffman has a connection to one of the other wealthy parents accused in the college admissions bribery scam.

Back in May 2010, the Desperate Housewives actress, 56, attended a book launch event for Beverly Hills-based marketing CEO and author Jane Buckingham, 50 — who was also indicted in Tuesday’s headline-making scandal.

Both women were photographed together at the party, held at the Soho House in Los Angeles. They appeared to be close, hugging and smiling.

The book that Huffman was helping celebrate was Buckingham’s The Modern Girl's Guide to Sticky Situations. Described on Amazon as “a helpful handbook for surviving headaches,...

3rd Update, 1:51 Pm: Also caught up in today’s FBI charges is Tpg Growth CEO and managing partner Bill McGlashan, a co-founder of Stx Entertainment and Evolution Media. He also is a board member at CAA, in which Tpg Growth’s parent company, Tpg, bought a majority stake for $225 million in 2014. He made Vanity Fair‘s 2017 list of the 100 most influential people in business, politics and technology as CEO of the Rise Fund, a $2 billion impact-investment platform.

At least two other people with ties to the entertainment industry also have been indicted in the case: Jane Buckingham, founder and CEO of the Beverly Hills-based boutique marketing firm Trendera, and Elisabeth Kimmel, owner and president of Midwest Television, which sold the CBS-affiliated San Diego radio and TV outlets Kfmb to Tenga last year. Kimmel also worked as a litigation associate at Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, the law firm whose specialties include movie,...