In breaking news, Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to jail in his hoax hate attack case.
As reported, the ‘Empire’ actor was found guilty of five counts of making false police reports relating to the “hate attack” he claimed to have experienced on January 29, 2019.
At the point of conviction, Smollet faced up to 15 years in prison.
Find out what punishment was handed down to the star after the jump…
Moments ago, Smollett was hit with a sentence of five months (150 days) in county jail – which was read by Judge James Lynn.
The sentence begins immediately.
Smollet was also subject to 30 months probation, restitution to the tune of $120,106, and a $25,000 fine.
At the point the punishment was read out, Smollett declared that he is not suicidal, is innocent, and that both must be noted in the event anything happens to him.
Speaking with visible emotion, he said:
“I am not suicidal, I am innocent! If anything happens to me in there I did not do it”
Watch the dramatic conclusion:
The 39-year-old’s case, which concluded on December 9, heard from brothers Abel and Bola Osundairo who admitted to staging the “racist and homophobic” attack with the star and carrying out the choreographed “incident.”
Smollett has long maintained his innocence and took to the stand in his own defense.
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Embarrassing!!!!!!!!
Like Monica still not releasing Trenches 💀
Hell be outta jail before trenches is released lmaooooo
SCREAMING 🤣
Isn’t your fav on The Masked Singer? THATS embarrassing.
Y’all h*** is BIG MAD 💀💀💀💀 wtf following me from post to post. It’s giving STALKER 💀
Ain’t nobody MAD about Trenches not being released but you boo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Clearly you are since you bring it up on every post firecrotch t******💀💀 Your obsession is disturbing 🥴
Big mad about a washed up singer from the 90’s????? You should be mad at how your fave is 40 years old still chasing behind prison d*** instead of dropping that album. U big delusional d***.
What’s disturbing is that you stan a flop who was never a star even in her “prime” 💀
Shawn f*** you and your multiple accounts 💀💀 go stream UGGmillia latest flops and stop obsessing over the princess of rnb 💋
Monica doesn’t have any latest flops as she’s too old and lazy to put them out 💀
So basically he’ll do a couple months and go back to normal life for making a mockery of stuff real people have actually been victims of. Not to mention the amount of tax payer’s money his case wasted. Yay 🙄
Not normal life he’s blackballed from Hollywood 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Like Cardi soon will be after pulling out of that movie last minute 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
He should be doing a LOT more time!
How much time should YOU be doing for the stuff you have done? Give people grace. Goodness!
What an interesting turn of events lol i am surprised he got jail time i thought it would just be probation
Awwww Diva is so jealous of her for getting all the prisoner d I c k s💅🏾 Makes me wanna committing some crimes… I need some gangster d I c k s from all angles
Ugh he does the most! However, with a racial pandemic going on right now and this case dealing with race he was also very smart to say that on camera and in front of the judge. Cook county ain’t nothing to be played with and there are a lot of racists in there. Even though he annoys me I hope he’s safe in there
Problem is he already told that lie once (“They did it to me. I didn’t do it to myself.”) I think all he did was demonstrate how unstable he is.
Don’t drop the soap, Bussie…and I love how his gay black fans are crying foul. HAHAHAAAA!!!