The family of Jussie Smollett are speaking out.
20.03.2022 - 16:45 / etcanada.com
The family of Jussie Smollett are speaking out.
During an hour-long virtual event on Friday, the former “Empire” star’s siblings Jazz Smollett, Jocqui Smollett and Joel Smollett met with a group of Los Angeles-based journalists.
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Alongside defence attorney Heather Widell, the actor’s family said “there’s no verifiable evidence” that Smollett lied about being assaulted in an alleged hate crime, People reported.
“Our main focus right now is making sure that the media understands that the narrative that Jussie is lying, that he committed perjury in any way, or that his story fell apart is just patently not correct,” Widell said. “We have independent witnesses who completely and unequivocally corroborate Jussie’s story of what he saw that night.”
The attorney didn’t elaborate on the identities of the witnesses supporting Smollet’s account.
On Jan. 29, 2019, Smollett told Chicago police that two men beat him, doused him with bleach, and wrapped a rope around his neck after he exited a Subway sandwich shop late at night. He alleged that the assailants yelled “racial and homophobic” at him and shouted, “this is MAGA country,” in reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
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A pair of brothers were arrested two weeks later, and police alleged that Smollett had paid them $3,500 to carry out the attack in what they said was hoax.
“’Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career,” then-Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson said at the time, claiming that he staged the hoax “dissatisfied
The family of Jussie Smollett are speaking out.
Jussie Smollett to be released from Cook County Jail on bond, pending the appeal of his conviction.Last Wednesday, Smollett had been sentenced to 150 days in behind bars and immediately remanded into custody. On Thursday, Judge James B.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAn appeals court ordered former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett released from jail on Wednesday, just seven days into a 150-day sentence for faking a hate crime.In a 2-1 ruling, the justices ordered Smollett released pending the appeal of his conviction, on the condition that he post a $150,000 bond.Smollett was sentenced to serve five months in the Cook County jail, after being convicted at trial in December of five counts of disorderly conduct, a Class 4 felony. Smollett was found guilty of staging a hate attack, in which he claimed to have been assaulted by two men who yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him and put a noose around his neck in January 2019.Smollett was also ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution to the City of Chicago, for the cost of paying overtime to officers who investigated the purported attack.
After less than a week behind bars on a 150-day sentence for faking a hate crime, Jussie Smollett will be walking out of the Cook County Jail today.
Jussie Smollett will be released from jail after only six days. Per court documents obtained by HollywoodLife, Jussie will be able to walk free after he posts a $150,000 bond.. The actor, 39, was initially sentenced to 150 days (approximately five months) at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois. The news comes amid reports that he been fasting for several days due to Lent, which began on March 3. He’s also made moves to appeal to his sentencing.
Jussie Smollett to be released from Cook County Jail on bond, pending the appeal of his conviction, according to multiplereports.Last Wednesday, Smollett had been sentenced to 150 days in behind bars and immediately remanded into custody. On Thursday, Judge James B.
Jussie Smollett has been moved from a psych ward and into a jail cell with a bed, according to his brother, Jocqui Smollett. Jocqui took to his brother's official Instagram account early Tuesday with a video message to the former "Empire" actor's supporters with a "day five update." "So I just got to see him. Just want to give y'all an update on his status.Thank you so much for the support, all the hashtag #FreeJussie, it's working.
Jussie Smollett‘s friends, co-stars, and family members are showing him support in the days following his prison sentence.
Instagram is rapidly becoming the go-to source of Jussie Smollett defenders.
Jussie Smollett has been placed in the psychiatric ward at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois. According to Jocqui Smollett, Jussie’s brother, he was moved to the pysch ward due to "being at risk of self-harm". Jocqui went on to add in an Instagram video shared on Saturday that this is "very concerning" to him. Jussie Smollett has been placed in the psychiatric ward at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois.
Authorities are apparently taking no chances on Jussie Smollett’s safety while incarcerated at the Cook County jail.
Jussie Smollett is in the psych ward at the Cook County Jail.
Actress Jurnee Smollett has called for Cook County to “#FreeJussie” on the heels of her brother Jussie Smollett’s Thursday sentencing to 150 days in jail for staging a fake hate crime back in 2019.
Chicago’s top prosecutor, state’s attorney Kim Foxx, says the justice system failed disgraced actor Jussie Smollett, who was sentenced to 150 days in jail for staging a hate hoax crime.
Jussie Smollett began a 150-day jail sentence for staging a hate crime against himself in protective custody, separated from other detainees and watched by security cameras and an officer, jail authorities said Friday. Sheriff's deputies immediately took Smollett to the Cook County Jail Thursday night after Judge James Linn sentenced the Black and gay actor to 30 months of felony probation, starting with a five-month term in jail, for lying to police that he had been the target of a racist and homophobic attack.
will spend the next 150 days has faced hundreds of lawsuits over the years, with inmates alleging overcrowding, violent treatment and not enough protection against other inmates.In the past few months alone, a person behind bars accused the jail of forcing him to share a cell with someone who had tested positive for the coronavirus.And in a different lawsuit filed earlier this year that was obtained by The Post, another inmate accused corrections officers of using “excessive force” on him to the point where he “lost consciousness.”“When I came back I was face down in a pool of my own blood with a gash on my forehead,” the man said in the initial complaint, filed on Jan. 13, 2022.