CHICAGO - Two brothers involved in Jussie Smollett’s Chicago alleged hate-crime hoax sued the Empire actor’s lawyers on Tuesday, accusing them of defamation for insisting they had “criminally attacked
” the actor even after police concluded otherwise.
Police later concluded that Smollett, 36, staged the attack for publicity. Prosecutors brought and then abruptly dropped hoax charges against the actor on 26 March, a move that drew the fury of the city’s police superintendent and mayor. It rejected the idea that the brothers, who are also black, attacked Smollett because of his race, asserting that the actor staged the incident. It also noted that the pair served as the actor’s trainers and sometime extras on his Fox hip-hop TV drama.
Geragos and Glandian, Smollett’s attorneys, called the lawsuit “comical” and a “desperate attempt for them to stay relevant and further profit from an attack they admit they perpetrated.”Smollett has said he had always been truthful about the incident, which sparked extensive outrage on social media, drawing the attention of both Republican President Donald Trump and some of the Democrats who hope to challenge him in 2020.
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