Posted on 02/26/2019 8:08:59 AM PST by Red Badger
If "Empire" money was Jussie Smollett's motivation to allegedly stage an attack, he certainly never showed his cards to the people who could actually make it happen.
"Empire" production sources tell TMZ ... none of the brass -- producers or EPs -- heard even a whisper from Jussie grousing he was underpaid. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Jussie staged the "attack" to raise his profile and get more per episode.
Our sources say, if Jussie was upset about his salary, he kept it to himself. He was in the middle of a long-term contract and the executives, who are in a position to bust the deal or sweeten the pot, say neither Jussie nor his reps ever asked.
Jussie was pulling in a reported $125,000 per episode. We're told that's on par with actor Bryshere Y. Gray, who plays his brother, Hakeem. Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard reportedly make $250,000 an episode.
We're told Jussie's main focus recently was the release of new music. He was upset his first album didn't do well and was stressed out over the debuts of his new songs and music videos.
It was to help his BFF KAMALALALALALALALA Harris get her Civil Rights Box Checked....................
Bingo!
Bingo! You get a gold star on your Report Card.
So basically he was trying various strategies to leverage the fame his TV appearances brought him, and his first few attempts didn't work.
I doubt seriously that he was making $125k an episode. Some reports last week suggested around $65k-$70k per episode. There’s also some commentary that they wanted to downsize the number of episodes per season that he’d appear in....maybe cutting to a dozen episodes max. Toss in taxes and the agent’s cut...he was still going to do well.
Agree. It had nothing to do with his salary. It was his hatred of Trump, Trump supporters and conservatives that was the impetus of this fake hate crime, just like all the others.
I can’t say the name of an old album by comedian Richard Pryor alluding to a type being crazy. (Because I have no freedom of speech, of course.)
But psychiatrists reluctantly for the first time deleted the description of mental illness for homosexuals when pressured by liberal lobbyists.
As in:
In 1973, APA Removed Homosexuality From List of Mental Illnesses ...
https://www.hrc.org/.../flashbackfriday-today-in-1973-the-apa-removed-homosexuality... (and)
Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out of the DSM. / / / / /
However, let’s forget the pressuring to remove the label. Really the sex change types are always crazy and so are the Jussie type creeps. The mental illness goes on but the label changed.
Like “pregnancy terminated” sounds better than killing a living baby in the womb. Or now, after he or she is alive outside the womb. “Murder” sounds so unhelpful to the Dems.
“Like I do with Daddy’s.”
Doubtful he was making $125k per episode. Co-stars from more popular shows like ThIs Is Us, Better Call Saul, or Bull barely make that much.
Exactly. Race baiting. Why do any of them do it?
The boy's a liar, plain and simple.
Once a liar, always a liar, in my mind.
Because you can never really trust that person to tell the truth again.
Doubtful he was making $125k per episode. Co-stars from more popular shows like ThIs Is Us, Better Call Saul, or Bull barely make that much.
Yes, but Jussie was also getting the ‘gay, black’ per diem payment.
This is all about ME.
It was an attempt to make Kamala Harris’ anti-lynching legislation seem relevant. They thought they could thrust her into the national spot light with this issue.
Instead it backfired and now they are pushing the idea that this was done to “get more money” from the show... but no one can explain how receiving a threatening letter would get Juicie more money from Empire.
He’s a sociopath, plain and simple.
I don’t toss that word around lightly.
I see it in everything he did and continues to do.
I know all about REAL sociopaths.
I was raised with one......................
+1 what you said.
Completely irrelevant. His motives are secondary to the actual crime.
Were motives to be taken into account for criminal activity and given leniency as a result, anyone could be acquitted of practically any crime.
Yes, completely irrelevant.
But the reason he gave was a lie as well to cover his BFF KKKamalalalala..................
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