William H. Macy 'Disagreed From Day One' With Wife Felicity Huffman's College Scam
April 22 2019, Updated 11:24 p.m. ET
Felicity Huffman's husband William H. Macy looks like he’s playing the role of devoted husband by showing up to his actress wife's court hearing, but RadarOnline.com learned exclusively he never agreed with her scheme to advance their daughter’s academic career.
“He knew she was up to something, but he disagreed with it from day one,” said a source of the Shameless star, who has not been charged with a crime.
Huffman and Fuller House star Lori Loughlin are the most famous names in the landmark case that led to 50 people being charged in the criminal investigation involving wealthy parents, coaches and college prep executives who have been accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious universities, according to a federal indictment.
Huffman, 56, who’s an Academy Award nominee, has been charged with felony conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to court paperwork filed Monday, March 11 in federal court in Massachusetts. The star allegedly paid a proctor $15,000 to take the SAT for her older daughter, Sofia.
Prior to the December 2017 SAT, a cooperative witness allegedly met with the American Crime actress and William in their home and explained how the scheme works. Macy was not named in the complaint, but referred to as a “spouse.”
“He advised Huffman and her spouse that he ‘controlled’ a testing center, and could arrange for a third party to proctor their daughter’s SAT and secretly correct her answers afterwards,” the court papers alleged. “The cooperative witness has advised investigators that Huffman and her spouse agreed to the plan.”
But according to the source, the 69-year-old actor was not on board with the scam, which his famous wife also tried to use for their younger daughter, but didn’t follow through with it.
“He Macy didn’t know the details, but he knew she Huffman was trying to do something,” added the source. “He wasn’t fully aware of what she was planning.”
The complaint claims that Macy was on a December 12, 2018, call with Huffman and the cooperating witness to discuss their younger daughter possibly taking the SAT over a two-day period.
“Do we want two days?” Macy allegedly asked the witness, later saying, “She’ll score higher. Just her base score will be higher if we did it over two days.”
“He was against it and all the pressure. Instead, he wanted his daughter to take some time off and enjoy life for a bit to figure out what she wanted to do."
“But Felicity was manic about it. She was insistent, but he didn’t want any pressure for his daughter to go to school.”
Loughlin, 54, and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, were also charged after allegedly agreeing to pay $500,000 in bribes to have their two daughters accepted to the University of Southern California as a recruited crew athletes, even though they didn’t row competitively.
Since appearing in a federal court in Los Angeles March 12 and released on $250,000 bond, Huffman has been “inconsolable” and “distraught,” the source said.
But she isn’t getting any shoulders to cry on.
“Friends don’t feel sorry for her. They think she deserves it,” continued the source.
“She knew about the investigation, so it shouldn’t have been shocking. People close to Felicity and William don’t think she deserves sympathy."
“Her children didn’t know what was going on, and now it’s breaking up the family.”
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