Jussie Smollett hired two Nigerian brothers to stage a hoax attack on him because he was angry that producers of Empire, the show he was on, did not take seriously enough a threatening letter he’d been sent a week earlier, his trial has heard.
On January 22, 2019, Smollett received a letter at the studios of Empire which called him the N-word and a ‘f****t.’
On January 29, he told police he’d been the victim of a racist beating, by