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LA real estate mogul Robert Flaxman, 66, hangs himself at his Malibu home – three years after conviction in $325,000 admissions payola to get both his kids into college

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261e1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>LA real estate developer Robert Flaxman&comma; 66&comma; <strong>was found lifeless hanging in his Malibu home last week after his friends requested a welfare check<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261e1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s suicide happened three years after being jailed for one month for paying &dollar;325&comma;000 to college admissions scam to get his son and daughter into school <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261e1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Flaxman&comma; owner and CEO of billion dollar real estate firm <strong>Crown Realty &amp&semi; Development Inc&period;&comma; <&sol;strong>pled guilty to fraud and conspiracy over admissions scandal <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261e1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He had his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s ACT exam corrected by a proctor to inflate her score <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Robert-Flaxman-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420700" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"569"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Robert Flaxman&comma; 66&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; the real estate developer charged in the college admissions scandal alongside Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin&comma; was found lifeless hanging in his Malibu home last week after his friends requested a welfare check<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prominent Los Angeles real estate developer Robert Flaxman is dead&period; The death of Flaxman&comma; 66&comma; who was charged in the college admissions scandal alongside other celebrities Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin last year&comma; has been ruled suicide&period;<br>It was discovered that he killed himself last week after his friends requested a welfare check and the real estate was found hanging lifeless in his Malibu home&period;<br>Authorities told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tmz&period;com&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;27&sol;real-estate-robert-flaxman-college-admission-scandal-dead-dies-suicide&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">TMZ <&sol;a>that while no note was found&comma; but Flaxman had a history of depression and coroners marked the case as closed&period; <br>Flaxman was among 53 people charged with paying Rick Singer&comma; the mastermind of the college admission payola scheme&comma; to get their kids into prestigious schools&period; <br>The 2019 indictment against him charged him with first paying &dollar;250&comma;000 to get his son into the University of San Diego in 2016&comma; and then paying an additional &dollar;75&comma;000 to increase his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s ACT scores&period; <br>She was admitted to the University of San Francisco and graduated this year&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Robert-Flaxman-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420702" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"1214"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Flaxman was sentenced to one month in prison&comma; one year of supervised release and was also ordered to complete 250 hours of community service plus a fine of &dollar;50&comma;000&comma; after admitting to a scheme to fraudulently inflate his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s ACT score<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">After a plea agreement Flaxman ultimately admitted guilty to just the charge involving his daughter and spent a month in prison&period;<br>Flaxman admitted to conspiring with William &&num;8216&semi;Rick&&num;8217&semi; Singer to have his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s ACT exam corrected by a proctor&comma; thereby fraudulently inflating the score&comma; <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;latimes&period;com&sol;california&sol;story&sol;2019-10-18&sol;college-admissions-scandal-robert-flaxman-sentenced" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">The LATimes <&sol;a>reported&period;<br>He did so by first taking steps to secure extended time for his daughter to take the ACT&period; <br>That was followed by a petition to move the exam to a test center in Houston&comma; Texas&comma; that Singer &&num;8216&semi;controlled&&num;8217&semi; through one of his proctors&period;<br>Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s daughter and the child of another client of Singer both took the ACT with the assistance of a co-conspirator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Jacob-Flaxman-and-Kaylin-Flaxman-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420707" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"532"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Flaxman was charged with bribing coaches at the University of San Diego to accept his son Jacob Flaxman &lbrack;left&rsqb; and for paying to boost his daughter Kaylin Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s SAT scores&period; He wept in court that Kaylin was in &&num;8216&semi;recovery&&num;8217&semi; and that he wanted her to be safe<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Harvard alumnus Mark Riddell assisted in answering exam questions and instructed the students to answer different questions incorrectly so that the ACT would not suspect cheating&period;<br>Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s daughter used the score to apply to several schools and ultimately enrolled at one of them&comma; prosecutors said&period;<br>Federal prosecutors had recommended a sentence of eight months in prison&comma; one year of supervised release and a &dollar;40&comma;000 fine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;University-of-San-Diego-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420715" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"670"&sol;><figcaption><strong>In earlier court documents&comma; the FBI also accused Flaxman of paying an admissions consultant &dollar;250&comma;000 to fabricate application documents that were used to get his son into the University of San Diego<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">They did not identify where she goes to college but said the school suspended her for a semester when the scheme was uncovered&period;<br>In earlier court documents&comma; the FBI also accused Flaxman of paying an admissions consultant &dollar;250&comma;000 to fabricate application documents that were used to get his son into the University of San Diego&period; <br>Those allegations were not pursued&comma; however&comma; and they weren&&num;8217&semi;t included in Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s plea agreement with prosecutors&period;<br>Flaxman&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers say he agreed to the testing scheme because his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s test scores were too low to get into college&period; <br>He wasn&&num;8217&semi;t trying to get her into an elite or exclusive school&comma; they said&comma; and he wasn&&num;8217&semi;t chasing social status &&num;8216&semi;ego gratification&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Felicity-Huffman-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420718" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"602"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman&comma; 59&comma; served 11 days of a 14-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutors said he deserved prison time&comma; nonetheless&comma; because his daughter ended up getting involved in the scheme&comma; and because Flaxman sought a tax deduction for the &dollar;75&comma;000 bribe&comma; which was funneled through a sham charity&period;<br>Flaxman was the owner and CEO of Crown Realty &amp&semi; Development Inc&period;&comma; a real estate firm that operates and develops commercial property in California&comma; Arizona&comma; North Carolina and elsewhere&period; Its website says it manages nearly &dollar;1 billion in property&period;<br>In 2021 Crown Realty &amp&semi; Development sold two Beverly Hills mansions for a combined total of &dollar;26million&comma; &dollar;12million less than the initial listing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Felicity-Huffman-with-husband-daughters-Sophia-Grace-left-and-Georgia-Grace-right-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420719" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"722"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Actress Felicity Huffman seen with husband actor William H&period; Macy&comma; daughters Sophia Grace &lbrack;left&rsqb; and Georgia Grace &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma;served 11 days of a 14-day jail sentence for fraud and conspiracy&period; She admitted paying an admissions consultant &dollar;15&comma;000 to falsify daughter Sophia&&num;8217&semi;s SAT scores <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">More than 50 people have been charged in the scheme&comma; which involves wealthy and famous parents accused of paying bribes to rig their children&&num;8217&semi;s test scores or to get them admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes&period;<br>Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman&comma; 59&comma; served 11 days of a 14-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges for paying an admissions consultant &dollar;15&comma;000 to falsify daughter Sophia&&num;8217&semi;s SAT scores&period; <br>Huffman admitted to paying admissions officer William Singer via his nonprofit Key Worldwide Foundation&period; The money went to a proctor to correct wrong answers on Sophia&&num;8217&semi;s SATs&period; Authorities said the nonprofit was set up as a front to accept bribes&period; <br>In addition to jail time&comma; Huffman also received 250 hours of community service&comma; a &dollar;30&comma;000 fine and a year of probation&period; <br>The Emmy-award winning actress tearfully confessed at her sentencing&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I was frightened&period; I was stupid&comma; and I was so wrong&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Lori-Loughlin-right-with-her-husband-Mossimo-Giannulli-left-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420709" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"636"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Lori Loughlin&comma; is seen &lbrack;right&rsqb; with her husband Mossimo Giannulli&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; outside court in 2019&comma; pled guilty to paying &dollar;500&comma;000 to get her two daughters enrolled into Univ&period; Of SOCAL in 2019&period; She served 2 months in jail and paid a fine of &dollar;150&comma;000l<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;I broke the rule&period; I have admitted that and I pleaded guilty to this crime&period; There are no excuses or justifications for my actions&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I can promise you that in the months and years to come that I will try and live a more honest life&comma; serve as a better role model for my daughters and family and continue to contribute my time and energies wherever I&&num;8217&semi;m needed&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>She said she &&num;8216&semi;betrayed&&num;8217&semi; her then-18-year-old daughter Sophia who was not aware of her plan&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life&period; My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br>In a letter seeking leniency from the court&comma; the actress said she engaged in the scheme after her daughter&&num;8217&semi;s dreams of going to college and pursuing an acting career were jeopardized by her low math score&period;<br>Sophia was kept in the dark about her mother&&num;8217&semi;s actions and confronted her after news of the FBI&&num;8217&semi;s sweeping Operation &&num;8216&semi;Varsity Blues&&num;8217&semi; broke&comma; saying&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Why didn’t you believe in me&quest;&&num;8217&semi; Felicity wrote in her letter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Lori-Loughlin-center-with-daughters-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-420712" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"1015"&sol;><figcaption><strong> In the scandal&comma; it was revealed that Lori Loughlin seen &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; Isabella Rose&comma; and Olivia Jade and her husband Mossimo&comma; paid half a million dollars for their daughters to attend USC as rowing recruits despite neither having experience in the sport<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Federal authorities said that through her mother&&num;8217&semi;s scheming&comma; Sophia got a bump of 400 points from her earlier score on the PSAT&comma; a practice version of the SAT&period; <br>Another actress&comma; Full House star Lori Loughlin pled guilty to paying &dollar;500&comma;000 to get her two daughters enrolled into University of Southern California in 2019&period;<br>After receiving half a million dollars from Loughlin and her husband&comma; Singer arranged to get her daughters Isabella Rose&comma; 23&comma; and Olivia Jade&comma; 22&comma; onto the school&&num;8217&semi;s rowing team&comma; despite neither having a background in the sport&period;<br>After Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli&comma; 59&comma; pled guilty in connection with conspiracy charges in the college admission bribery case&comma; in May 2020&comma; Loughlin served her two-month jail and paid a fine of &dollar;150&comma;000&comma; along with 150 hours of community service following the guilty plea&period; <br>Her husband was handed a five-month sentence with a fine of &dollar;250&comma;000 and 250 hours of community service&period; Giannulli was transferred to home confinement in April of 2021&comma; about a month before his sentence ended&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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