By the end of this week, Smollett was arrested for filing a false police report and then released on bail.
The scandal began back in the end of January, when Jussie Smollett claimed that he had been attacked by two men, and there was an outpouring of sympathy for him.
Later, however, rumors began to circulate that authorities suspected that Smollett had staged the attack and had prior acquaintance with the two men who first appeared as the prime suspects.
Authorities claim that he hired them to fake the attack.