Saturday 9 March 2019

Unlabelled Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Jussie Smollett Indicted on Multiple Counts in Relation to Alleged Attack

Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Jussie Smollett Indicted on Multiple Counts in Relation to Alleged Attack

by Crime Time Tamil on March 09, 2019

I would think the show would get rid of him after all of this ..... yikes

On Friday, March 8, 2019, 6:00:39 PM EST, SHARON ceegee2006@yahoo.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics] <Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I think Empire may want to write him out or recast . If guilty he may be gone awhile. I am sure this was done as a publicity stunt but still how dumb!!~

https://tvline.com/2019/03/08/jussie-smollett-indicted-felony-charges-attack-empire/

Jussie Smollett Indicted on Multiple Counts in Relation to Alleged Attack

By Kimberly Roots / March 8 2019, 2:19 PM PST

A Chicago grand jury indicted Empire's Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts Friday, NBC 5 Chicago reports. The charges are related to the actor's alleged staging of a hate crime against himself in January.

Smollett reportedly told police that two men approached him and began hurling racist and homophobic slurs at him. According to the original account, the two men beat Smollett, placed a noose around his neck and doused him with a chemical substance (believed to be bleach), then fled. Smollett also told police that the assailants "yelled pro-'Make America Great Again' [MAGA] comments" during the attack.

Later developments cast doubt on Smollett's account, including the questioning of two suspects — a pair of Nigerian brothers, one of whom worked as a personal trainer on a music video of Smollett's — who were later released without being charged. Smollett's lawyers have insisted that the actor played no role in his attack.

He was charged in February with one count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. He was arrested on Feb. 21; in the press conference that followed, Chicago Police alleged that Smollett staged the attack in order to gain a larger salary at the Fox drama. Smollett was written out of the final two episodes of Empire in response to his legal troubles; the show is mulling the idea of recasting his character, Jamal.

TVLine has reached out to Smollett's legal team for comment.

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