Jussie Smollett agreed to a settlement with the city of Chicago five months after the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the "Empire" star's hate crime hoax conviction.

Jussie Smollett is led out of a courtroom after being sentenced at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on March 10, 2022, in Chicago. The charges were overturned in November 2024. (Brian Cassella ...

Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago after prosecutors dropped all charges against him, March 26, 2019. Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP ...

CHICAGO – Jussie Smollett’s sentencing is underway in Chicago criminal court. The former “Empire” actor was convicted on five counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police after ...

Jussie Smollett appears at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Illinois, on March 14, 2019. REUTERS Jussie Smollett leaves a Cook County courthouse after a hearing on Feb. 24, 2020.

Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Chicago after a special prosecutor re-investigated allegations hefalsely reported being the victim of a January 2019 ...

The Chicago Police Department didn’t respond to TheWrap’s request for comment about the family’s allegations. Jussie Smollett was released from jail on March 16, 2022.

Smollett, 37, was an actor on the Fox show “Empire” on January 29, 2019 when he reported to police that he had been attacked in Chicago in an incident that ended with a noose around his neck ...

Chicago’s mayor and the city’s police superintendent reacted angrily Tuesday to news that Jussie Smollett’s charges were dropped, with both of them still calling Smollett’s claim that he ...

In a stunning reversal, Chicago prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett just weeks after he was indicted on 16 felony counts for allegedly filing a false ...

Chicago's effort to make former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett pay a six-figure civil fine for allegedly wasting police time on an alleged hoax hate-crime claim survived Tuesday, after a federal ...

Jussie Smollett's trial began Nov. 29, 2021, ... Uche called it “nonsense” for Chicago police to ask Smollett for his DNA when he was still considered the victim of a crime.