Cook County’s top prosecutor Kim Foxx called ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett a “washed up celeb who lied to cops” in a text message she sent before dropping all charges against the actor in March.
The text message was released Tuesday by her office in response to an open records request by the Chicago Tribune, Fox News reports.
In text messages sent to her top assistant Joseph Magats on March 8, Foxx compared the Smollett case to her pending indictments against R&B singer R. Kelly, who is accused of aggravated sex abuse against four females, including 3 minors.
“Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16 (counts),” she wrote. “Just because we can charge something doesn’t mean we should.”
“On a case eligible for deferred prosecution I think it’s indicative of something we should be looking at generally,” Foxx continued.
Her texts implied she was still very much involved in Smollett’s case even though she recused herself in February.
Smollett, 33, was indicted by a grand jury on 16 counts of disorderly conduct for lying to cops about staging a hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers in January.
The openly homosexual actor claimed 2 men assaulted him in a racist and homophobic attack outside his Chicago condo.
But investigators determined he staged the attack on himself to boost his celebrity profile on the Fox Television soap opera.
On March 3, Magats told Foxx that he gave her phone number to celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti who joined the case to represent the 2 Nigerian brothers.
“…so Michael Avenatti reached out. Apparently he’s coming in to represent the Nigerian brothers in Smollett. I gave him your office number,” Magats wrote.
Avenatti would eventually turn over a key piece of evidence – a sex tape – that Foxx used to secure indictments against Kelly, 52.
Avenatti was later hit with a 36-count federal indictment that included accusations that he stole $4 million from a paraplegic client in California.
The text messages sent between Foxx and Magats conflicted with statements made by Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson who claimed his office was not notified that the charges would be dropped against Smollett.
The texts show Foxx’s office notified Johnson moments before the charges were dropped.
“Eddie just called. (He) needed to know how to answer questions from press,” Foxx texted Magats.
Foxx told Magats that Johnson seemed “satisfied” with her explanation that Smollett had completed community service and turned over his $10,000 bond money to the city.
That same day Johnson and then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a tense news conference expressing their outrage at not being notified and blasting Foxx’s decision as a “whitewash of justice.”
Many observers at the time believed Johnson and Emanuel were grandstanding for the news cameras.
Photos by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images
I like her precision…
“Washed up celeb?”…he hasn’t been around that long..only for a
” hot minute.” Anyway, this is messy!
Kim Foxx is a DUMMY! What SMART professional texts or emails pertinent information to ANYONE? https://media0.giphy.com/media/HJDwbCR3GR4cM/giphy.gif
i know what other movie or show has this boy been in. His siblings have gotten more work.
have these public officials learned nothing from kwame?
Hahahaha. smh
Well this paper trail works in her favor to show she didn’t hold him in high regard/didn’t give him preferential treatment…
I know for a fact Jurnee Smollet has been in the industry for a very long time. I think I heard he may have had work in the past. Maybe, I’m just behind? Could be me that doesn’t know.
So what season is this and is this considered a spin-off?
Hay Blue…it’s hump day!
Yeah it is!
I am so ready for this story to die.
Kim keeps burying herself and making her camp look very unprofessional…OAN: She looks like one of the Who’s in Whoville…
whoville face….this is so unprofessional
lol
Looking for the lie https://media3.giphy.com/media/3orieUe6ejxSFxYCXe/giphy.gif
LMAO!!!!!!!
Lawd, sue for the money it cost to investigate and move on! Iz mighty tired
No lies detected.
so they traded in the 16 counts for the sex tape …..what a bunch of……
these unethical azz folks……. https://media2.giphy.com/media/BZjZpr8tP8lVe/giphy.gif Chile damn bye …. this entire fiasco is BS!!!
She just needs to resign …PERIOD
IT is all BS…… People should be held accountable across da board…over it
Why wont this story go away?
Lord. that case took the entire CAKE. I used to read that mess 2-3 times A DAY with all the updates etc lol. Shouts out to Detroit News bc BAYBEE that coverage was EVERYTHING.
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lol. What jenie said.
* humps you
Good morning Rose Garden,
Somebody let me know when Law & Order does this story please. They will throw a sexual part in there so they can work it in SVU
Jussie and his siblings had their own short lived sitcom when he was a kid. Jussie was a child actor also. So he does know the business very well.
Aren’t there kids turning up dead with organs missing in Chicago issues of that nature deserve the level of attention this tired drama has recieved .
This case still won’t go away….because it’s messy so is Kim Foxx.Chiiile…
She does look like a WHO I am dying over here…I had to scroll back up to confirm LOL
ALL that grandstanding Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson did was a COMPLETE farce. SMH
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That’s why I hope the new mayor replaces him! He’s full of ?! Smh
Lololololol https://media2.giphy.com/media/QlaPUIluj1mFRVk4Tz/giphy.gif
Yessssssssssss
So she saying he’s the next contestant on Dancing With The Stars? https://media2.giphy.com/media/GFBME4lzPVwxW/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
Works in her favor? Quite the opposite. It helps prove that she shouldn’t have let him off.
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My comments are not subject to debate E Coli…
* sprays troll disinfectant
Chicago has long had a reputation for dirty politics and back-room dealings. This will just strengthen that reputation even more.
Your comments are usually silly.. like this one.
Duly noted you’re a fan. You are welcome…
I guess this story is gonna go down in history ?
Exactly. Was he auditioning for Empire?
It’ll be that the actor was ONLY suppose to be beaten up, but the people he paid to beat him up also raped him. And they put white paint on their penises. LOL
Lol!
“Hide ya wife, hide ya kids…” I can’t thjnk of anything else when I see this woman’s face. “You are so dumb, you are really dumb” lol
YUP thats why my little cousin (T. Swift) and 3 others who were charged with a crime they did not commit when they were teens sued the city of Chicago. My cousin spent 17 years behind bars. He just got out 4-5 years and they sued the city/state and won the biggest payout of $33 milion dollars. And believe me hes a happy camper!
I don’t like Jussie either but he’s not washed up (he will be) Pamela Anderson is a great example of being washed up. Ijs
That lady got a MouF on her.
so she “recused” herself from the case, but was still texting her top assistant and her top assistant was giving out her number to a lawyer representing interested parties in the case. Either she doesn’t understand what the word “recused” means or she was being deceptive/dishonest. I’ll choose door #2.
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He was also been in a movie called (Alien Covenant) with Michael Fassbender.
they all are liars….NEXT POST!
Smollett has lost a starring role in the Broadway reboot of the Tony-winning play Take Me Out
Hes going to lose a lot!
???
She needs to be disbarred!! She’s proven more than once how unethical she can be. If I were Jussie I would send a letter to the Illinois Bar Association!!
She AND Jussie should both be behind bars.
Who cares there’s a Pussy grabber in the white house and Robert Mueller aint released his investigation on him still, where is the report already?!!!! ??
Theys a claiming its coming this Thursday.? At this point they can just keep the shat.?????Ain’t nothing gonna happen to the that fool anyways.
She’s trying to change the narrative from her being star struck and letting him go to make it seem like his celebrity didn’t play a huge role in her dismissing ALL the charges. She’s full of it…
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Lmao
And Kim looks like Deputy Dog with her unprofessional azz. Carrying on…
A redacted report drops Thursday.
That weave is hideous. She must think she looks better with that hair hat on than with her natural hair
What I got from this is that Kim Foxx peeped early in the game that this was going to be a 5hit show, so she technically recused herself (even though we can see that she continued to work on the case) to have deniability when 5hit hit the fan. I don’t see where she lied at, albeit she was extremely unprofessional in her communication. She protected her own neck bc she knows how these people she works with get down, now they look like a bunch of clowns, and she tried to tell em. https://media0.giphy.com/media/9M3aVeUISfFuGsiWVB/giphy.gif
Deputy Dam Dog….. LMBAO
Deputy Dam Dog….. LMBAO
#1 – Smollett was overcharged, but remember it was the grand jury that charged him. I’m not sure if the Prosecutor’s office can throw out PART of the charges but she threw out ALL of the charges.
#2 – Kim is in big trouble. She’s got the Ill. Prosecutors Association against her.
#3 – Smollett should pay the city the $130K and be done with this.
Empire has not been renewed yet.
Lol. I had to look that up because everytime I see her I think she looks like the Richie Rich cartoon character.
I don’t think they will take him back either.
Welp….
she never “technically” recused herself. The only thing she did was tell the public that she recused herself. If she had legally done so, an independent prosecutor would have been handed the case and it would have been out of her office.
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Wow! That’s all i got…
OMG. you made me laugh at that one. she does have pretty hair though.
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Ohh..I see..well that’s not good..at all. It seems the whole department likes to play reindeer games, ALL OF THEM had a hand in this disaster. But I think we all can agree it appears Ms. Foxx is going to be the one who ends up with her head on a stick (proverbially speaking), they’re already setting her up to be the scapegoat.
The 130k demand semse a bit akin to extortion, but I agree, he should pay. Pay the money, move on, and let this whole story fade away, no one will even talk about soon enough.
I remember in school back in the day if you had long hair you were cute no matter if you look like Freddie Jackson, Samuel Jackson or Tito Jackson, if you had long hair you were fine to most guys. To me, she favors Damon Wayans with long hair and she’s married. I’ve been trying my best to give her a compliment. Well at least she has nice long healthy hair. Okay I’m done being petty for today. Thank you. ?. https://media3.giphy.com/media/bZVE5R772xAFa/giphy.gif
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