Netflix Sets Jussie Smollett Documentary With ‘New Evidence’

Netflix has announced a documentary about Jussie Smollett and his 2019 hate crime hoax.

“The Truth About Jussie Smollett?” will premiere on Aug. 22, and it features interviews with police, lawyers, journalists and investigators who claim to have “new evidence about the case.” According to Netflix’s logline, the 90-minute doc tells the “shocking true story of an allegedly fake story that some now say might just be a true story.”

Smollett was known for playing the starring role of Jamal Lyon on Fox’s music drama “Empire.” In 2019, he reported himself as the victim of a violent hate crime in Chicago, alleging that two men hurled racial slurs at him, poured an unknown chemical substance on him and wrapped a rope around his neck. The incident was first met with an outpouring of public support for Smollett, with celebrities like Viola Davis and Shonda Rhimes expressing outrage about the alleged attack on social media, and political figures like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker describing it as an attempted modern-day lynching.

Soon, however, Chicago police released surveillance images of the supposed perpetrators, identifying the men as Nigerian American brothers who worked as extras on Smollett’s show “Empire.” Evidence that Smollett had orchestrated the attack and paid the brothers $3,500 later surfaced.

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