Anonymous wrote:There is more going on than meets the eye. It has to do with Avenatti and Geragos. Bigger fish involved.

EXACTLY!

ding ding ding!!!!! We have a winner!

It looks like he had info on something else and cut a deal. Mark Geregas is his attorney and he is not being indicted for a crime. The timing is suspicious.

I work for a FOX affiliate & I'm here to tell you that Jussie was DEFINITELY fired.

Of course, the network is backtracking now & "exploring their options."

This is their way of saying "uhhh, we F'ed up royally & jumped the gun, so if we let you come back to the network in some capacity with a pay raise, will you PLEASE not sue us??"

This was all because Terrence Howard had a diva moment & wanted Jussie fired right now yesterday, absolutely immediately!

As the star of the show, he put major pressure on Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Francie Calfo & all of the FOX execs that if they didn't fire Jussie that Terrence would walk & the fans would walk away with him. Empire's numbers have dropped way down from Season one from 25M viewers per show, to less than 5M now (and that's prior to this whole mess). They got scared & caved to his demands.

The quote below is by far the most entertaining part about their F up.

"Shortly after he was charged and released on bond, the network issued a statement that they were "exploring their options."

Jussie's not a criminal, Trump's not a criminal, but Lori Loughlin is a criminal??

I read people are saying that he rolled on someone to get off. Not that he's innocent.

Dropping charges =/= they think he’s innocent.

He was going to end up with a fine and community service regardless.

Now being Jussie Smollett in Chicago? Yeah, won't be fun.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy $hit!
He's already been FIRED from Empire & he's been treated like a pariah by the cast, crew & executive at Fox... could he have a lawsuit for unlawful termination??

They could have cut his scenes from the 2 remaining episodes of this season, but they probably should have done their due diligence & waited for the investigation to be over (considering its the off season anyway!).

He’s still on Empire.

The writer’s room tweeted this image with “see ya’ll Wednesday.
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NP here & I too heard he was fired on February 22nd.
https://wild941.com/2019/02/22/jussie-smollett-empire-fired/

Chicago Police released too much information during press conferences to convict since everybody already knew everything ... including the 2 guys that either attacked Jussie or were paid by Jussie.

Chicago Police knew they could not convict him but could save face by embarrassing him in court with whatever was on his phone.

Jussie decides to do community service in exchange for sealing the investigation so the haters can imagine he was guilty.

Chicago drop all chargers so the lovers can feel vindicated.

Guilty or not Chicago Police f'd it all up.

dirty Chicago politics, working it's magic.

This is weird--it sounds like he's guilty of something because of the wording, but charges dropped? I'm willing to be there was some wrongdoing on both sides? Maybe?
I would love it if he was totally innocent--it was really disappointing to think he made the whole thing up.

I believe he is guilty and something shady went down. Chicago politics/police have a reputation for being dirty.

Guess we'll never know the real story because the records have been sealed.

Anonymous wrote:Holy $hit!
He's already been FIRED from Empire & he's been treated like a pariah by the cast, crew & executive at Fox... could he have a lawsuit for unlawful termination??

They could have cut his scenes from the 2 remaining episodes of this season, but they probably should have done their due diligence & waited for the investigation to be over (considering its the off season anyway!).

He’s still on Empire.

The writer’s room tweeted this image with “see ya’ll Wednesday. “

But what about the federal mail threat? This is the Chicago DA’s Office. They have no sway over whether or not the FBI and Postal Service charge him with mailing a false anthrax threat?