Juicy Gets Another Win
He won't have to give any of that OnlyFans money to his co-conspirators:
Two brothers who helped stage a hate crime attack against actor Jussie Smollett won’t be able to collect damages from Smollett’s lawyers for defamation, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.
Since shortly after Smollett reported he had been attacked by two men near his downtown apartment in 2019, brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo have claimed they were hired to pretend to beat up the former “Empire” star while shouting racist, homophobic slurs at the gay, Black actor.
That led to criminal charges against Smollett for lying to police, and to a trial where the brothers became star witnesses – and stars of a documentary about the hoax.
But that meant the pair could not claim they were defamed by Smollett’s attorney, Tina Glandian, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland wrote in an order dismissing the case.
“The ways in which plaintiffs voluntarily injected themselves into this public controversy are myriad,” Rowland wrote, listing among other things the Osundairos hiring a publicist to field media requests immediately after their arrest and negotiating a deal for a documentary within weeks of Smollett’s arrest.
"...voluntarily injected...."
Paging the Keesing Bandit.
Can this entire episode finally disappear now?
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