Smollett 'staged attack to advance career'

By Karen Pierog
Updated February 22 2019 - 7:26am, first published 7:23am
US actor Jussie Smollett told police last month he was attacked by two men on the street in Chicago.
US actor Jussie Smollett told police last month he was attacked by two men on the street in Chicago.

Actor Jussie Smollett paid two brothers thousands of dollars to beat him in a staged racist and homophobic attack because he was dissatisfied with his salary on the hip-hop TV drama Empire, police say.

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