The Nigerian-American brothers accused by actor Jussie Smollett of attacking him in January have filed a federal lawsuit against his legal team, including celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos.
Ola and Abel Osundairo filed a defamation lawsuit against Smollett’s legal team on Tuesday, April 23, claiming the actor’s lawyers defamed them in legal documents after the Empire star said they attacked him outside his Chicago condo.
In court documents, Geragos stated, “The brothers led a criminally homophobic and violent act against Mr. Smollett.”
The Osundairos’ legal team say Geragos (pictured in court with client Chris Brown) knew this statement was untrue.
The Osundairo brothers released a statement which was read by their Attorney Gloria Schmidt during a press conference in Chicago on Tuesday morning.
In the statement the brothers prepared themselves, they said their reputation was harmed by fabricated lies that they are anti-homophobic.
“We have sat back and watched lie after lie being fabricated about us in the media. Only so one big Loe can continue to have life. These lies are destroying our character and our reputation in our personal and professional lives. Those who know us personally know that we don’t have hate for anyone. That is not who we are. We try to spread as much love and positivity with whoever we come into contact with. We will no longer sit back and allow these lies to continue.”
Police arrested the brothers in February when they arrived in Chicago on an international flight from Nigeria. They were released without charges a few days later.
The case shifted after the brothers confessed they were hired by Smollett to attack him so he could blame the attack on Trump supporters and boost his celebrity status as the face of anti-homosexual hate.
Smollett, who is biracial and openly homosexual, told police the attackers hurled racial and anti-homosexual slurs at him.
The 36-year-old actor was arrested and eventually charged with 16 felony counts of lying to police. The case took another bizarre twist when Cook County’s top prosecutor Kim Foxx dropped all 16 charges against Smollett and sealed his court record.
Smollett was hit with a $130,000 lawsuit by the city of Chicago earlier this month after he missed the deadline to pay for costs the city incurred investigating his lies.
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Chiiillleee ain’t nobody gonna trust or hire a know liar ?
PLEASE… HERE WE GO AGAIN…
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Time for lunch…bbl
Ummm. I think I understand the situation with JustShyt Smollet. There is a train depot in his head and there is a train leaving every 5 minutes in his head. The thing is when the train leaves the station in his head it’s derailing and it’s just a mangled trainwreck that he wants everyone to believe is the truth.
The brothers Akeem and Semmi were wrong for taking part in this fake hate crime but I agree enough is enough. Shut it down and a way to do that is to file suit, have JustShyt Smollet be deposed under oath and then allow him to perjure himself in front of a jury and lock him up for perjury.
They were down with this bird brain scheme from the beginning , now that it has gone left they wanna turn against each other. ?????? They all need to just go away quietly. ?????
Just Shyt Smollet, Akeem & Semmi…go take a nap. ??
We back talking bout Smologna? ?
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That laid me clean out!
I call him Smussie, but this is a good one too!
Who is Akeem and Semmi ? chile I almost said Cain and Able…
Who is Ghost yelling at?
hahahahahaha
Jussie really played himself
LMBO@Akeem and Semmi.
I was waiting for this to happen..smh! Chicago wants Jussie EXPOSED! They want all the grimy details and lies to come out!
Also the brothers claim they can not get anymore acting gigs because of this incident. Idk how this is going to turn out, but I don’t see anything good coming out of this for Jussie! He did it to himself! Don’t have any sympathy for him at all…,
Still not pissed at Jussie and Jussie still not pissed at them, huh? Everybody’s mad… the city is mad at the prosecutor, Jussie is mad at the city, the boys who committed the “act” are mad at Jussie’s attorney’s… but the only two groups who don’t have an issue with one another is the “victim” and the “attackers” who, by all accounts should be the ONLY people upset with each other.
No word yet, huh?
As time goes on I have started believing Jussie then another Smollett headline pops up and the other half of me says nah still don’t make sense…..
Log off, man!???????
I never believed jussie. If these 2 guys were going to beat him up, he would still be in the hospital or 6 feet under.
* Two white men yelling MAGA beat me up on a 3 am run to the sandwhich shack on the coldest winter night ever
* Video cameras on the ENTIRE route but, magically, not ONE camera caught him getting his ass whooped
* Camera catches footage of two men out that night, but you can’t see faces and you can’t tell if they’re black, white or, burgundy
* Jussie goes on TV, crying and hymn sanging, “I have no DOUBT that those are the two men who attacked me!! (when he thought no one would ever figure out who they were)
* Police: Those two men you have “no doubt” are the white men who attacked you are your two really black assed friends…
* Jussie: “I did not do this!”
* Friends turn on him and tell the whole story (friends who have no reason to beat up their friend)
* Jussie is mad at police, the FBI, the public, the DA and fans who don’t believe him… but he’s NOT mad when he “finds out” that the two white men who yelled racist remarks were actually his two black friends and, he’s STILL not mad that his friends beat him up.
… what, about this story made you flip flop? LOL
Those are REALLY unflattering photos of the brothers..
Now this was just on tv the other nigt so you know I’m really crying.. Too soon.
lmaoooooooooooooooo. CUTE!
This is like a movie in the making. The script is everything you said, I would highly be surprised if this doesn’t show up on TV. Nothing make sense, just a bunch of lies, fake crying and acting.
THESE NUCCAS HAVE GOT SOME NERVE!!!! FOOLS YOU DID COMMIT THE CRIME WHETHER HIRED OR NOT. YOU ARE GUILTY, ADMITTED TO IT; YOU NEED TO STFU AND THANK GOD EVERY MINUTE, EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY THAT YOU ARE NOT IN JAIL RIGHT NOW. THE CHICAGO POLICE HAVE 2 CLOWNS THAT ADMITTED TO DOING THE CRIME SO THEY SHOULD BE GOING AFTER THEM TOO FOR THAT $130K. THEY NEED A NEW LAWYER B/C IT’S OBVIOUS SHE’S GIVING THEM BAD ADVICE AND LOVING THE SPOTLIGHT……..JENNY JONES!!!
This story and all the ish behind it is like the most ghetto roach ever!! It lives 4EVA no matter what! Not even bleach can kill it!!???
THEY CAN’T GET ANY MORE ACTING GIGS B/C THEY ADMITTED TO DOING THE CRIME!!! BEING PART OF THIS DISGUSTING CRIME!!! IT SEEMS THEY WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THEM AS SOME DUMB NIGERIANS THAT WERE COERCED INTO DOING THIS CRIME, THEY DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER. JUST DUMB, MEAT HEAD NIGERIANS!!! GTFOH!!! THEY ARE TAKING NOOOO RESPONSIBILTY FOR THEIR ACTIONS AT ALL EVENTHOUGH THEY ADMITTED TO IT. FORGET JUSSIE THEY COMMITTED A CRIME NO MATTER WHO ELSE WAS OR WAS NOT INVOLVED WITH THEM………..JENNY JONES!!!!
Don’t get me started. The one with all the teeth looks like a damn fool.
IDK. I’ve only watched 4 episodes to kill a 7-hour flight home. THIS wasn’t one of those episodes. LOL
Maybe they don’t hit hard, most muscly men are just for show anyway…lol
Morons. Dud Jussie ever take off that noose ? I don’t think so.. poor widdle baby.
THEY ARE ALL GUILTY……..JENNY JONES!!!
These lawyers will settle for 5g each and the brothers will sign an NDA
Leave bologna and lasagna out of this.
whispers, but Smussie called the police, had a press conference.
They all guilty, to include Kim.
Have a good day.
This is hilarious
Jussie should have hired Chris Brown for the attack..
lmao this made me cackle. The fact that he had the noose around his neck when the police arrived is quite disturbing…
They are suing his legal team but not Jussie?
Jussie must be broke.
Oh no see……
That whole series is the business. I caught on late and binge watched. I loooove it!
on so many different levels.
I hope he is therapy, he act TOO murch.
Jussie hasn’t implicated the brothers though, just themselves and the evidence.
Those four episodes I watched were pretty good. I think they were from Season 4.
Lol
Brothers that is the chance you take when you participate in fvckery. You all let Juicy trick you into doing something stupid. Now go have a couple of seats.
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Good for them. Jussie don’t know how much trouble he’s caused. All he needs to do is pay the City, repent, and be done.
The legal team made the claim.
Well good for them!!! Jussie tried to throw them under the bus…..even AFTER it came out he was lying!!!!! So I don’t blame them for this lawsuit!!! Jussie will pay one way or the other…cause remember…he is the Gay Tupac…smdh….
Well if they are being defamed then in fact they conspired with someone to mislead law enforcement and fake a hate crime…
So, you know, not really the most virtuous and honorable dudes anyway. How can you defame someone of low character?
Amen! I hear Home Depot is having a sale on shut-the-f*ck-up seats.
Juicy. I can’t.
What group or organization is financing this venture? Name names.
OR, they ain’t mad at Jussie because they have no reason to be because Jussie, very skillfully, never mentioned their names. Never accused them of anything. Never said, “I’m mad at them” after he “found out” they whooped his ass… so, they’re not mad at their friend. But they want money.
You’re splitting hairs.
Jussie’s lawyers are representing Jussie and they threw the brothers under the bus with Jussie’s permission.
did they lie to anyone about what occurred? How did they know jussie was going to lie to anyone about what occurred? did they make plans if the police come to talk to them that they would lie about what occurred? fake attacking someone is not an illegal act.
He didn’t directly name them, but he said two people attacked him and did these things to him (slurs, rope, bleach, etc.) and the police identified those 2 guys. Even after being positively identified, jussie still says these guys did those things to him. I’d sue jussie and the lawyers.
If jussie hired them to at like they were beating him up, what crime was committed? The crime was the lie about what happened. If jussie and the brothers never discussed what to say to cops and the brothers didn’t lie to police when questioned, then I don;t see what law they broke.
????????. So they trying sue because the plan failed.
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Well, that was my point. They aren’t suing him because there is no beef. They got paid. Not because he’s broke, but because there Is no reason to sue their friend. They’re all good.
Whyyyyyy jussie? I still need answers
So you would be ok if your ‘friend’ allowed his lawyers to throw you under the bus to save himself?
You sound as dumb as those Nigerians.
Complete quagmire…
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First of all, CLOWN, I don’t have conversation with ignorant mfs who can’t have a conversation without insults because they don’t agree with, or UNDERSTAND, your position because that makes me get just as ignorant as you.
If you’re paying attention, the POINT I was making that you keep missing, is that if this $hit were REAL, they’d be suing JUSSIE. But, since they’re NOT, it’s a clear indication that they’re not mad at EACH OTHER because they know they set it up – TOGETHER. SMH
Neither brother is attractive. They’re just a NO!
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Fake attacking someone is illegal if you know its in furtherance of another illegal act like lying to police.
Think of it this way – you can bury a knife in your yard, but you cant bury a knife you know was used in a murder.
What facts are known that the brothers knew jussie was going to file a false police report? jussie has said he didn’t want to file even after the attack (though I think that was a lie). I don’t know that any information exists that says the brothers knew a false report was going to be filed. you seem to be agreeing on the point I am making, but making the assumption jussie conspired with them to lie to cops. Is there any evidence of that?
What facts are known that the brothers knew jussie was going to file a false police report? jussie has said he didn’t want to file even after the attack (though I think that was a lie). I don’t know that any information exists that says the brothers knew a false report was going to be filed. you seem to be agreeing on the point I am making, but making the assumption jussie conspired with them to lie to cops. Is there any evidence of that?
jussie should sue them for being cheap. they went to a little rinky dinky store and was just sloppy. like they was trying to save money. jussie also shouldve got less muscular people. lol.
Sue them with what money?
Jussie is an actor with money while these clowns probably deal steroids and escort like most ”trainers.’
So why didn’t they listen to their lawyer and hold a press conference proclaiming their innocence? Now they are getting stomped on and are a bunch of idiots. They know he made up the whole thing now they are playing victim after letting him crap all over them
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