The two Nigerian brothers who allegedly participated in a staged hate attack on Jussie Smollett have filed a defamation suit against Smollett’s lawyers.
Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo accused the attorneys of smearing their reputations in a bid to salvage Smollett’s image.
The suit alleges that Smollett’s attorneys, Mark Geragos and Tina Glandian gave interviews in which they sought to scapegoat the brothers. The suit also accuses Glandian of falsely suggesting that Abimbola had sexual relations with Smollett, exposing him to backlash in the Nigerian community.
In the suit, the brothers stated that Smollett asked them to help him stage a social media hoax, and they went along with it because he is a wealthy actor as they were aspiring to make it in Hollywood.
Smollett told Chicago police on January twenty-ninth that he was attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs and put a noose around his neck. Police later traced the attack to the Osundairo brothers, who confessed that Smollett had paid them to stage the attack.
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