In a letter sent to Fox and ABC executives and producers Friday, six of the biggest stars behind Fox’s hit show “Empire” demand the rehiring of Jussie Smollett despite the ongoing controversy and legal actions stemming from his alleged “hate crime hoax.”
Just over a week after the City of Chicago filed a civil suit against Smollett for $130,000 for “his refusal to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, 2019,” and just a few days before the two Nigerian-American brothers who say they helped Smollett carry out the alleged hoax sued the actor’s lawyers for defamation, six of Smollett’s fellow “Empire” actors — Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Gabourey Sidibe, and Nicole Ari Parker — sent a letter to several Fox Entertainment and ABC Entertainment executives and producers involved in the series. The central claim of the letter: the actor has been completely exonerated and thus should be allowed to return to the show.
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