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Jussie Smollett Testifies That He Did Not Stage Hate Attack

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJussie Smollett, the former “Empire” star, took the stand in a Chicago courtroom on Monday and denied that he staged a hate crime against himself nearly three years ago, according to local reports.Smollett, 39, walked the jury through his version of the events of Jan.

29, 2019, when he alleges he was attacked by two men who uttered homophobic and racist slurs and put a rope around his neck.

And he denied that he had paid two brothers, Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, to stage the attack.“There was no hoax,” Smollett told the jury, according to the Associated Press and reporters in the courtroom.Smollett is facing six counts of “disorderly conduct,” a Class 4 felony in Illinois.

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