Jussie SmollettThe 2019 Hate Crime Hate Hate Saga is looking with fresh eyes in a nearby documentary.
Variety reports that Netflix has announced The truth about Jussie Smollett?a new documentary of Ashley Madison: sex, lies and scandal Director Gagan Rehill and the producers of Tinder Swindler, Raw. Executive producers include Tom Sheahan and Tim Wardle. The movie will debut on Netflix on August 22.
What do we know so far of “the truth about Jussie Smollett?”
It is said that the documentary has new tests, as the filmmaker talks to people close to the case for more information on what they know and recently discovered. According to the Netflix Logline, the documentary is “a striking true story of a presumably false story that some now say could be a real story. With interviews with the police, lawyers, journalists and researchers who claim to have discovered new tests on the case and with Jussie, this compelling documentary invites the audience to decide -themselves to decide. The truth about Jussie Smollett?)
Variety reports Rehill’s statement to the film, with him saying he is “excited” to bring the movie to Netflix viewers.
“This story is an exciting walk and we were fortunate enough to have key players,” he said. “He wanted this documentary to balance his competitor narratives and also use his convincing and colored testimonies to filter the light and shadow of the story through the film.”
“But much more than that,” he continued, “wanted this film to speak with the particular moment of rapid cultural change when it comes to 2019; when, as a society, we were more and more combative, more polarized, more divergent by our shared reality, when we began to have a common unique truth.”
What to remember about the original case
The original 2019 incident included the Empire The star stating that White Maga supporters assaulted him by pouring an unknown chemical and strokes out of a subway in the Chicago area early in the morning during the height of the Polar Vortex. In the following years, especially during the Smollett Court, police revealed that the Nigerian -Nigerian brothers who were also associates with Smollett and worked as extras in Empire were hired by Smollett to stage the attack. The telephone records corroborated the belief that Smollett created the hook and camera images with closed capture and other information showed Smollett and the brothers rehearsed the attack. The tests also showed that Smollett paid the brothers $ 3,500.
Finally, Smollett was convicted of five crimes of disorderly conduct and sentenced to 30 months of probation, including 150 days behind the grilles. He was also ordered to pay more than $ 120,000 on fines. The sentence was later reversed and in 2025, Smollett and the city of Chicago reached a settlement.
Throughout everything, Smollett has maintained that he has not lied to his attack.
