Jussie Smollett has officially appealed his conviction in his 2019 hate crime hoax, with his attorneys claiming in their filing that the actor’s 150-day jail sentence is “excessive.”
EU states will be “tax colonies” if the veto safeguard is lost, critics say, as Germany demands ‘EU empire’ powers to help fight Russia.
“Empire” star Taraji Henson has joined the call to “Free Jussie” after disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail for staging a hoax hate crime.
The horse-drawn carriage has been embroiled in a racism controversy over a picture on the left-side panel of the opulent coach.
An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.
Jussie Smollett’s sister, actress Jurnee Smollett, says that she believes her brother, the former who Empire actor who has fallen under scrutiny and legal trouble for his alleged hate crime hoax.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — “Empire” actor Bryshere Gray has been arrested in Arizona on accusations of abusing his wife, police said.
CHICAGO — Two brothers who admitted helping actor Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago last year are again willing to help in the case after initially saying they were done cooperating with prosecutors, their attorney said Thursday.
Nigerian brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo are prepared to testify at the upcoming trial for Empire actor Jussie Smollett, according to their lawyers.
Jussie Smollett has reportedly been indicted by a special prosecutor in Chicago over last year’s alleged hate hoax in which the Empire actor claimed he was beaten by two men in MAGA hats who yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him.
Empire showrunner Brett Mahoney has hinted at a possible return for disgraced actor Jussie Smollett in the Fox drama’s finale, arguing it would be “weird to end the show without him.”
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss Chicago’s lawsuit against former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
The first episode of the final season of the Fox drama Empire kicked off with an anti-Trump bang, even on the heels of the scandal over the series’ former star Jessie Smollett, who was tossed off the show after reporting a fake hate crime.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised senior Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt for praising the new “world order” of “empires”, but said it was time to be straight about Brussels’ intentions to build a new European Empire.
The team of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claims an ambiguous text message he sent to one of his suspected attackers prior to his purported assault was about illegal herbal steroids, not his alleged hate hoax.
The Chicago Police Department on Monday released hours of video captured as part of their investigation into the alleged hate hoax orchestrated by former Empire actor Jussie Smollett earlier this years.
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge decided to appoint a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to the police by claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago in January.
CHICAGO (AP) — Another “Empire” actor has been arrested in Chicago, but this time on a traffic-related offense.
“Empire” creator Lee Daniels blames Jussie Smollett for the cancellation of the hit TV show and has cut him out of his life.
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett’s manager was hesitant to identify him in the 911 phone call made after the hoax attack occurred, according to audio obtained by the New York Post.
Smollett is a national joke whose only hope of employment is to allow himself to be exploited as a sideshow freak in some straight-to-DVD dreck looking to turn Smollett’s status as a pariah into free publicity.
Recently released records show disgraced “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett denied to the Chicago Police Department that Abel and Ola Osundairo were his attackers, citing their dark skin color.
A judge in Chicago on Thursday afternoon ordered the files of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s criminal case to be unsealed.
The FOX drama ‘Empire’ is slated to end after season six as producers for the embattled program say there are still “no plans” for actor Jussie Smollett to return, according to a report.
Fox TV announced late Tuesday that Jussie Smollett will not be returning for Empire’s sixth season.
President Donald Trump labeled the alleged Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax a “disgrace” to the United States during a Wisconsin rally Saturday.
Ratings for Fox series ‘Empire’ continue to be in the gutter as Jussie Smollett starred in his last episode of the season Wednesday.
The cast of Empire are hoping to gaslight Americans into believing Jussie Smollett is “innocent” and “honest”so that he can be reinstated on the hit show.
Ola and Abel Osundairo — the brothers who allegedly helped carry out a hate hoax against Empire actor Jussie Smollett — have filed a defamation lawsuit against Smollett’s attorneys Mark Geragos and Tina Glandianin.
The brother of Jussie Smollett has claimed that the disgraced “Empire” star is having “night terrors” over the hoax attack that police say he perpetrated against himself back in January.
Newly-released text messages reveal an aide to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx harshly criticized the Chicago Police Department’s conduct during their investigation into the alleged hate hoax carried by Empire actor Jussie Smollett.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx referred to actor Jussie Smollett as a “washed up celeb who lied to cops” in texts messages to members of her staff sent roughly two weeks prior to her office dropping all charges against the “Empire” star.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett will no longer co-star in the Broadway revival of the play “Take Me Out” amid lingering charges that the performer staged a hate crime against himself, according to a report.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago filed a lawsuit against Jussie Smollett on Thursday in a bid to recoup the costs of investigating a racist, anti-gay attack that authorities say was orchestrated by the “Empire” actor as a publicity stunt, with the city saying — at minimum — that it now wants triple the amount it initially asked Smollett to pay.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) on Saturday slammed the Chicago police union as the “sworn enemy of black people” for demanding Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx resign over her office’s handling of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s case, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is facing blistering criticism from an anonymous assistant state’s attorney in her office over the handling of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s case, who described the situation as “an international laughing stock” in a letter published by CWB Chicago on Monday.
A supporter of Cook County Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office recently dropped all charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, refered to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police as the “Blue Klux Klan” in a Saturday afternoon press conference — a racial slur the top prosecutor would not refute when asked whether she concurred with the comparison.
An attorney for Empire actor Jussie Smollett on Thursday responded to Chicago officials demanding repayment for the investigation costs into his alleged hate hoax by threatening his own legal actions, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Appearing Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” “Empire” actress Taraji P. Henson said that her co-star Jussie Smollett will return to the Fox Entertainment program next season despite accusations of staging a hate crime against himself.
Ratings for the Fox TV series Empire have just barely improved this week since hitting an all-time low last week after its star, Jussie Smollett, was cleared of felony charges for allegedly faking a hate crime against himself.