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Jussie Smollett (/ ˈ dʒ ʌ s i s m ə l ˈ ɛ t /, born June 21, 1982) [1] is an American actor and singer. He began his career as a child actor in 1991 debuting in The Mighty Ducks (1992). From 2015 to 2019, Smollett portrayed musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox drama series Empire .
On January 29, 2019, American actor Jussie Smollett approached the Chicago Police Department and reported a hate crime that he had staged earlier that morning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who had worked as extras on the set of television drama Empire , in which ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) -The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire", for staging a hate crime against himself ...
Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax case has taken yet another sharp and surprising turn.. The Illinois Supreme Court overturned the Empire actor’s conviction on charges that he staged a ...
Jussie Smollett has faith he'll get justice.. The actor and former "Empire" star, who was found guilty in 2021 of staging a racist and homophobic attack in January 2019, reflected on healing from ...
Nearly six years after actor Jussie Smollett was accused of staging a hate-crime hoax in downtown Chicago and lying to police, an Illinois Supreme Court decision overturned his conviction over ...
A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that there is “overwhelming evidence" that former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist, anti-gay attack against himself in downtown Chicago for ...
The Illinois Supreme Court has thrown out former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's conviction for lying about a 2019 hate crime. Smollett was found guilty in 2021 of faking a racist and homophobic ...