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The African American actor Jussie Smollett, star of the TV series “Empire“(Also broadcast in Italy) was found guilty by a Chicago jury of five out of six counts of falsely denouncing that he was the victim of a hate attack three years ago by two fans of Donald Trump, a attack that instead he invented to increase his notoriety.
The jury issued the verdict after a week of trial. Two of his friends testified that Smollett orchestrated it for publicity, revealing that he paid them to simulate the assault in January 2019 in downtown Chicago. Smollett denied the claims. Now he faces up to three years in prison and a $ 25,000 fine.