The ongoing drama of Jussie Smollett, the embattled Empire actor accused of faking a hate crime in early 2019, has taken another strange turn.
A new report alleges that Smollett knew one of his attackers from a Chicago bathhouse. Smollett claims that in January 2019, two men attacked him wearing ski masks and “MAGA” hats, while shouting homophobic slurs.
The two men allegedly beat the actor and doused him in bleach and tied a noose around his neck. Two weeks after the attack, police arrested