Empire star Jussie Smollett gets $100,000 bail as he’s supported by his family after police said he STAGED racist and homophobic attack because he was not happy with $100,000-an-episode salary
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Jussie Smollett leaves jail after posting $100k bail after prosecutor details video evidence against him and reveals he’d previously bought DRUGS from the brothers he paid to attack him after texting ‘might need your help on the low’
The actor’s siblings, Jazz, Jocqui, Jake, and Jojo were pictured arriving at the Cook County Criminal Court before his bond hearing on Thursday afternoon
A judge set Smollett’s bond at $100,000, which he will have to pay a portion of, and told him to give up his passport
Prosecutors shared an extremely detailed timeline of the night of the attack and the days beforehand
Smollett sent himself a threatening, racist and homophobic letter on January 22 to get more money from 20th Century Fox, police said Thursday
When that did not work, he hired brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo to attack him on January 25
On January 27, he took them to the exact location where he wanted it to happen and pointed out surveillance cameras nearby
Smollett was in contact with them an hour before the incident, an hour afterwards and when they were in Nigeria, laying low for two weeks
When they returned on February 13, they were picked up by police and later confessed ‘the entire plot’
Smollett paid $10,000, ten percent of his bond, and agreed to surrender his passport
The 36-year-old will return to court on March 14 to face a felony charge of filing a false police report
He wrote the Nigerian brothers a CHECK for $3.500! If Obama had a son...
Jussie was po’d that he made ONLY $65,000 per episode.
*Obviously*, he was being discriminated against because he was black.
Oh, wait a minute, the whole cast is black.