Smollett played Jamal, who was one of the sons of the central Lyon family. The actor was written out of the show’s final season after being accused of making a false police report. Smollett ...

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal to overturn his conviction on disorderly ...

Smollett played Jamal, a son of the central Lyon family in the music industry-set drama that aired for six seasons, from 2015 to 2020, on Fox. He was written out of the show's final season.

The Supreme Court heard an appeal from actor Jussie Smollett after a ruling upheld his Cook County conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime.

Testimony at his trial indicated Smollett paid two men $3500 to carry out the attack. He knew the men from the set of the show “Empire.” Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months ...

Lee Daniels & Andra Day Talk New Film, Faith Thrillers, Mo’Nique, Jussie Smollett + More As previously reported by The Root, back in 2019, Smollett reported that he’d been assaulted by white ...

Real Time' host Bill Maher called out Hasan Minhaj in his Friday show Maher compared Minhaj justifying his lies as 'emotional truth' to Jussie Smollett ... said she and her family had been facing ...

Actor Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying about staged hate attack Cook County Judge James Linn sentenced Smollett to 30 months of felony probation, with five months served in ...

Smollett, accused of staging a hate crime, was written off the show but has maintained his innocence. Daniels stressed forgiveness and moving forward, indicating potential collaboration if a ...

Actors Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Justin Kurzel and Jurnee Smollett, screenwriter Zach Baylin and producer Bryan Haas talk about their TIFF film, “The Order,” at the Los Angeles ...

“The critical piece that the courts have to look at is whether the defendant has completed his own part of the bargain. In this case, Mr. Smollett has given up his $10,000 bail bond. That’s a ...

The Chicago police accused him of staging a hate crime. The charges against Smollett, an actor on the TV show “Empire,” stem from his report of a racist and homophobic attack that the police ...