Until now, Felicity Huffman has said virtually nothing of why she paid a college admissions consultant $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT score.
What Felicity Huffman now calls the worst decision of her life came to a head at 6 a.m. March 12, when six federal agents showed up at the door of her Hollywood Hills home, guns drawn, to march the actress, in handcuffs, out of the realm of the beloved and into the realm of the scorned.
In her letter, Huffman said she had panicked, having come to believe her daughter’s low math scores on the SAT would hamstring her dreams of becoming an actress. But when Huffman went searching for a college counselor in 2016, concerned that her daughter’s public high school had just one overworked counselor for 300 students, Singer was recommended by a friend “as one of the best experts in L.A.,” she wrote. “I was told I would be lucky if I could get him to sign on to help me.”
As described by prosecutors, Singer explained to Huffman and Macy that he could pay a test proctor to allow an accomplice, Harvard-educated Mark Riddell, to correct their daughter’s answers on the SAT.Advertisement Two months later, Huffman and Macy made a $15,000 “contribution” to Singer’s foundation, which has since been exposed as a conduit that allowed Singer’s clients to funnel money to him, test proctors and college coaches while taking a tax write-off.
The early-morning arrests of Huffman and 32 other parents in Manhattan, the Westside of Los Angeles and other wealthy enclaves across the country raised eyebrows from some legal observers, who noted prosecutors often let those charged with similar nonviolent offenses to negotiate a surrender.
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