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Tink released her new mixtape Voicemails on Sunday. Voicemails is her first full-length project since going independent in 2018. The lead track, “Bad Side” was released on March 30, alongside a new visual. The 12-track project includes one feature from Dej Loaf on “Ride It.” Last March, Tink released her Pain & Pleasure EP and subsequently […]
The Empire cast continues to show their support for Jussie Smollett. The 36-year-old actor is in the midst of a highly publicized criminal scandal, in which he is accused of orchestrating his own hate crime in late January. Though he was ultimately cleared of all 16 charges in the case, his future with Empire remains unclear. Shortly after Smollett […]
UPDATED 7:12 p.m. ET: The City of Chicago is planning on suing Jussie Smollett after the actor refused to pay for the investigation of the Jan. 29 hate crime he reported, TMZ reports. “Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, […]
Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who dropped the disorderly conduct charges against Jussie Smollett, explained the circumstances that allowed for the case’s dismissal in an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune. The Cook County state’s attorney defended her office’s decision to drop the 16 felony counts, noting that she welcomes an outside investigation into the matter, should it lack political motivation. Smollett […]
Jussie Smollet’s attorney has presented a new theory as to why the actor couldn’t identify his purported attackers and originally thought they were white: they wore “whiteface.” Attorney Tina Glandian made the suggestion on the Today show on Thursday, after being asked why Smollett didn’t recognize the Ola and Abel Osundairo, even though the actor knows […]
The Cook County prosecutor who cleared Jussie Smollett in the alleged hate crime hoax said he is still convinced the Empire star is guilty. “I do not believe he is innocent,” First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats told CBS Chicago on Tuesday. Smollett was previously accused of staging his own attack in late January, when he told police […]
Empire co-creator Lee Daniels took to Instagram on Wednesday to briefly discuss how the ongoing Jussie Smollett case has impacted himself, the cast, and the hit Fox TV series as a whole. “These past couple of weeks have been a freakin’ rollercoaster,” Daniels said. “We have, me and my cast have experienced pain and anger and sadness […]
If Jussie Smollett’s plan was just to gain publicity from his supposed Jan. 29 attack in Chicago, it worked—at first. According to TMZ, Smollett’s career was going pretty well before the alleged assault; he was getting offers every other week, and sometimes weekly. Right after the incident was initially reported, his celebrity rose even further. […]
If Jussie Smollett’s plan was just to gain publicity from his supposed Jan. 29 attack in Chicago, it worked—at first. According to TMZ, Smollett’s career was going pretty well before the alleged assault; he was getting offers every other week, and sometimes weekly. Right after the incident was initially reported, his celebrity rose even further. […]
Since the end of January, many have been trying to figure out what exactly is going on with Jussie Smollett. Following initial reports that the actor had been attacked outside of a Chicago Subway while filming the Fox series Empire, fans have questioned everything from whether he was actually attacked to just how much trust we should put in the […]
