Police reportedly believe that Jussie Smollett staged the attack to raise his profile and subsequently his Empire salary.
In the time since, the Chicago police have charged Smollett with federal disorderly conduct in falsifying a police report and the actors’ role on Empire has been cut down for the remainder of this season.
There has been a lot of back-and-forth in the case of Jessie Smollett who told Chicago police he had been attacked by two white men while walking back from a Subway restaurant on January 29.