Former 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett to be sentenced in racist hoax attack
ABC News
The actor will be given one last chance to admit he made it all up.
Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett will get one last chance to publicly admit to fabricating a 2019 hate-crime attack on himself before learning whether a judge sentences him to prison.
Smollett, 39, is scheduled to appear Thursday afternoon in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago to hear his fate after a jury convicted him in December on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct stemming from him filing a false police report and lying to police, who spent more than $130,000 investigating his allegations.
During his trial, the actor testified in his own defense, maintaining his story that two masked men wearing hats bearing former President Donald Trump's "MAGA" motto assaulted him on a street and put a noose around his neck.
"There was no hoax," Smollett testified.
