"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett found himself at the center of an embarrassing legal saga in 2021, after a jury in Cook County, Illinois found him guilty of five out of six charges of felony disorderly conduct for making allegedly fabricated police reports claiming he'd been the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime in 2019.
Sentenced to 150 days in county jail, plus 30 months of probation and $130,000 in restitution in a push on the case when the Cook County state’s attorney asked the state to conduct an independent inquiry with a special prosecutor after the charges against him were initially dropped in March 2019, Smollett's case has taken yet another turn.
