
Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett arrives at court in Chicago to hear the verdict in his trial on Dec. 9, 2021. He was found guilty of staging a fake hate crime attack on himself in 2019. PHOTO BY SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES
Every day brings a new shame, a fresh burden, to our poor, weary and ever-spinning globe, overstocked as she patently already is with malice and folly. I imagine her sighing — "why was I the planet chosen to house Jussie Smollett?"
Most of us, alas, are familiar with the Smollett saga. Roughly three years ago this singer and secondary star of a middling TV drama series — Empire —
concocted, scripted, rehearsed and executed his own fake racist drama.
He staged the cretinous "attack" on his Black and homosexual self on the 2 a.m.-streets of "MAGA-country Chicago."
Background. Smollett was not hard up. For his secondary parts in Empire he earned $65,000 to $100,000 per episode, a tidy sum for any actor. Convinced, however, that he was worth more, his wonderful brain conceived a plan that would elevate his profile — even to the unspeakable heights of being a guest on
Good Morning America .
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