A ruling by a federal judge Friday will allow the star witnesses in Jussie Smollett’s trial for staging a hoax hate crime to sue Smollett’s lawyers for defamation.
Brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo claim that Smollett attorney Tina Glandian smeared the Chicago-based bodybuilders on national TV and on podcasts in the days after charges against Smollett initially were dropped by prosecutors in 2019, assailing the pair as liars and suggesting they wore “whiteface” makeup to pose as racist, homophobic attackers.
