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Feb 21 2019
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Actor Jussie Smollett Arrested by Chicago Police
Actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested after he was charged with lying to police when he claimed he was attacked and beaten by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs, Chicago police said on Thursday on Twitter.
Newsmax (News)Feb 19 2019
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Jussie Smollett case: Hate crime or hoax?
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Yahoo NewsDec 06 2021
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Jussie Smollett takes the stand in his own defense
CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett testified Monday that he did drugs at a bathhouse and made out with one of the two brothers accusing him of staging a hate crime against himself.
The former “Empire” television star, 39, described meeting Abimbola Osundairo, when called to the stand by his defense at his trial on charges that he staged a hate crime against himself in January 2019 and lied to
New York Post (News)Feb 06 2024
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Jussie Smollett asks Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for lying about hate crime attack
Jussie Smollett has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to review an appellate ruling upholding his conviction for lying about being the victim of a hate crime attack. “What should have been a straightforward case has been complicated by the intersection of politics and public outrage,” Smollett’s attorneys wrote in a court filing late Monday. A three-judge panel of the state appellate court in
Chicago Sun-TimesFeb 21 2019
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Jussie Smollett arrested over false attack report
US actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested in Chicago after being charged with filing a false police report.
BBC NewsFeb 19 2019
Opinion
Why our politics can't handle Jussie Smollett
When actor Jussie Smollett said he had been beaten and left with a noose around his neck by two men shouting slurs and pro-Trump messages in Chicago last month, Democratic politicians couldn't issue sweeping condemnations quickly enough.
CNN (Opinion)Dec 01 2023
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BREAKING: Jussie Smollett likely headed back to jail after conviction for hoax attack upheld on appeal
On Friday, an Illinois appeals court upheld disgraced actor Jussie Smollett's conviction for staging a hate crime attack against himself. He was found guilty of wasting police time, among other things. According to TMZ, the three-panel court ruled 2-1 in favor of upholding the conviction. Smollett was convicted in 2021 and spent just 6 days in Cook County jail before being released while
The Post MillennialOct 22 2019
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Judge won’t toss Chicago’s lawsuit against Jussie Smollett
A federal judge denied on Tuesday a request from the actor Jussie Smollett to throw out a lawsuit against him from the city of Chicago seeking $130,000.
“This will be going forward,” U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall told lawyers during a brief hearing Tuesday morning at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
Chicago hopes to recover $130,106 for the investigation it conducted after
Chicago Sun-TimesFeb 21 2019
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'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett charged with faking racist attack
Actor Jussie Smollett was charged on Wednesday with lying to police when he claimed he was attacked and beaten on the streets of Chicago by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic
ReutersMar 11 2022
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Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail in attack hoax case
US actor Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after a jury found he lied to police about being the victim of a hate crime.
The former Empire star, 39, was found guilty in December of five charges of felony disorderly conduct after making false reports about the hoax attack.
The sentence also includes 30 months of probation and $145,000 (£110,000) in restitution
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