Jussie Smollett was LATE for his own fake hate crime attack
The Nigerian brothers who helped actor Jussie Smollett fake a homophobic racial attack have revealed the disgraced actor was late for the beating he staged.
Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario were paid by the former Empire actor Smollett to attack him, with the actor blaming white supremacists who called him the n-word and yelled ‘This is MAGA country.’
The pair have now made a Fox Nation documentary series about Smollett’s web of lies, explaining in his own words the ‘truth’ of what happened on January 29, 2019.
Speaking on the show, the brothers said they were “sorry” about the incident, before joking and donning a red “Make Africa Great Again” cap similar to the one they were told to wear for the beating of Smollett.
Abimbola explained that they waited for Smollett for about “four minutes” on a bench, and that the attack happened about ten minutes later than planned.
Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario have now made a Fox Nation documentary series about Smollett’s web of lies, explaining in their own words the ‘truth’ of what happened on January 29, 2019.
Speaking on the show, the brothers said they were “sorry” about the incident, before joking and donning a red “Make Africa Great Again” cap similar to the one they were told to wear.
He said: ‘It felt like forever. We had no way of contacting him and he had no way of contacting us.
Steve Doocy asked them if they wanted to apologize and they replied: ‘Definitely. Something important to us was that Justice for Jussie was something important to us.
“We saw how badly our characters were attacked early on in all of this. But, we didn’t want to go back and forth in the media.
‘Because we knew we would have our day to tell our side of the story. The truth in its entirety. In which the docuseries has done a remarkable job.’
An investigation found that Smollett staged the whole thing, paying the brothers $3,500 for the attack, in a shameless attempt to win public sympathy.
He was convicted of five felonies in 2021 and sentenced to 150 days behind bars, but has been released while his legal team appeals his conviction.
The brothers explained that Abimbola was introduced to Smollett by a mutual friend of theirs, emphasizing that he did not meet him on the set of Empire.
He was also an actor and thought Jussie was asking him to “play a part” when he said “I want you to hit me”.
One of the brothers even noted that he gave the actor a ‘noogie’ to make it look like he had a scar.
His brother, Olabinjo, added: “Man, I thought this can’t be real, like, this is a Hollywood thing here.” It was amazing for me. Surreal.
“At the time I didn’t think it was a bad thing. Looking back now, I can see the ramifications of all that was being portrayed.
The brothers added that they were prohibited from bringing their phones to the attack to prevent police officers from tracking them.
However, they mocked the actor, saying that he was “not very punctual” so the fake attack was around 2:10 a.m., adding that they said the “infamous words” that he asked them to stay.
Abimbola added: “We went up to him and then I landed the first punch, made it look like he fought back and then he walked away with a Subway sandwich.”
They also revealed that Smollett wanted them both to wear a red MAGA hat, but said they could only find one.
The brothers’ attorney, Gloria Rodríguez, said the brother’s mother contacted her, six months after meeting her when she worked as his Uber driver.
Nigerian brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario recreated how they staged the attack on actor Jussie Smollett in January 2019
Smollett has repeatedly denied orchestrating the incident. He is represented here in court last year.
In Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax, the Osundarios return to the ‘crime’ scene and recount how they gave him a ‘noogie’ and poured bleach down his shirt before fleeing into the dead of night.
The brothers brought cameras to the location where they sat on a bench waiting for about ‘four minutes’ in the cold at Smollett at 2am on January 29.
Eventually, he said, he saw Smollett walking around “out of the corner of his eye,” and the two sprang into action, remarking “We’ve got to go find this Empire f******” and “We’re going to get that n*** * *.’
When they’re going to cross the street, Abimbola said, they said ‘Hey niggas’ to get his attention, ‘and then he turned around and looked at us and that’s when we started yelling the famous slurs he wanted us to do. shout.’
Among those insults was ‘This is MAGA country’.
‘And then he said, ‘What did you tell me?’ And that’s where she was when she threw the first punch at him. I parried, of course, so I made it look real.
“And then we started fighting, moving and then I knocked him down,” Abimbola continued, noting: “I wanted it to look like he fought back.” That was very important to him.
Smollett’s face is blurred, but he is seen holding the long white rope nose around his neck.
Detailed testimony from the brothers recounted how Smollett orchestrated the plot and sought them out as accomplices, allowing the jury to reach a guilty verdict in the high-profile case, a ruling the actor appealed last year, allowing him to halt his 150-day sentence after just six days
Abimbola said that he “wanted it to look more real, so I dropped it on the ground.” I used my knuckle to give him a nooggie’, demonstrating how he balled up his face and circled around Smollett’s eye.
‘Why did I do that? To make it look like she had a scar, to give her a mark, to make it look real, like she really got beat up,” she explained. ‘After doing that, I pretended to kick him.’
That’s when Olabinjo said that he “came with the bleach – the infamous bleach in the hot sauce bottle, spilled it all over his shirt, and finally I put the rope around his face.”
“I did not put it around his neck,” he emphasized. “I just put it on his face, and that’s when we took off.”
But when cops arrived at Smollett’s apartment 40 minutes after she called police on a hate crime, she still had a white noose around her neck.
He said he left it on to show police what happened and also pointed to the bleach on his shirt.
But after just three days of investigating the incident, police began zeroing in on the brothers and subsequently suspected that Smollett’s hate crime allegations were, in fact, false.
Video evidence from more than 55 sources would prove that narrative true, exposing the brothers as the ultimate culprits.
At this point, due to conflicting accounts offered by Smollett, the cops knew the incident was a hoax, but were then faced with the task of getting it out of the brothers’ mouths.
Considered the state’s star witnesses at the time, the two brothers delivered insightful testimony that exposed the plot, leading to the actor’s conviction in December 2021.
Cops quickly found a road block after learning the couple were out of the country, but they would only have to wait a few weeks before they returned.
They were eventually able to confront the brothers when they were handed over their passports.
They were held in a Cook County holding cell for 47 hours before they broke down and admitted to taking part in Smollett’s bizarre plot for the first time, which they said the actor engineered with the ultimate goal of being seen as a non-hero. only by the LGBTQ community, but also black people.
The brothers later said they were flabbergasted by Smollett’s public comments about the experience.
The two brothers eventually testified against their former friend in court and were able to walk away with just two years of probation and a small fine, after cooperating with police and exposing the scheme.
The FOX docuseries marks the first time the brothers have spoken publicly about their role in the hoax.
It also features exclusive interviews with police officers and other key figures involved in uncovering the scam.