'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett was released from jail while his attorneys appeal his sentence on multiple disorderly conduct convictions.
CHICAGO -- Lawyers for Jussie Smollett are filing a lawsuit in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by the Osundairo brothers.
The men were accused of attacking Smollett in 2019, and filed a lawsuit claiming one of Smollett's lawyers slandered and defamed them in a public interview. Now, the lawyers are hitting back, saying the claims are baseless and amount to malicious prosecution. This comes after a judge ruled Friday that the brothers' defamation lawsuit could go forward, citing that the attorney might have defamed two Black brothers who testified that they participated in a fake racist and homophobic attack on the actor when she suggested they had been wearing"whiteface."
U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland's ruling centers on comments Tina Glandian made on NBC's"Today" show in March 2019, shortly after the Cook County State's Attorney announced it was dropping charges accusing Smollett of lying to police about the incident two months earlier, theDiscussing how Smollett had told police that one of his attackers was white, Glandian said that the very dark-skinned brothers might have"put makeup on" to disguise their color.
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