After six long years, Jussie Smollett And the city of Chicago buried the ax of war, regulating a civil trial in its 2019 hatred crime report. The agreement, twinned with a decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois annihilating its criminal conviction, ends a saga that has shaken the personal and professional life of the star of the Empire. Here is the decline in the way Smollett is finally going ahead.

Jussie settles with Chicago after his reversed conviction

On April 28, 2025, a legal file showed that Sollett and Chicago had reached a regulation in the trial for its 2019 False police report. According to Fox ChicagoSmollett was supposed to appear in court on Wednesday, May 1, but his lawyer confirmed that his client had settled the case in a file entry. The details of the agreement were not publicly disclosed, because the two parties asked for more time to finalize the documents.

This occurs after the Supreme Court of Illinois on November 21, 2024, rejected the conviction of Smollett in 2021 for five accusations of disorderly conduct for crime. The court, in a 5-0 vote with two judges, said that trying him again was unfair because he had already concluded an agreement with the prosecutors. In this agreement, he abandoned an obligation of $ 10,000 and made 16 hours of community service. In return, the decision erased his prison sentence by 150 days, 30 months of probation and $ 1206,106 in fines.

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Chicago wanted Jussie Smollett to pay

Chicago did not play with Jussie Smollett. The city has filed a legal action against him to recover more than $ 130,000 spent on extension of the police while investigating his complaints. The city said that Smollett had paid $ 3,500 to the brothers Abimbola And OLABINJO OSUNDAIRO To help him organize the entire incident. They said that his false report had lost time and money to the police. Smollett has contradicted, alleging unjust targeting and reputation damage. Despite his canceled conviction, Chicago persisted with the trial until Smollett will face his next court hearing on May 29, where he and the city will probably finalize their agreement.

The passage of jussie rehabilitation and the return plans

While the shade room was overturned before, Smollett checked a Five -month outpatient rehabilitation program In February 2024, starting in October 2023 after his life took a stroke of his conviction in 2021. The native of California actively rebuilt his mental and emotional health by incorporating regular gymnasium sessions into his recovery routine. He also signed a new management agreement during this period.

Then, in September 2024, he jumped Angela YeeThe radio show, “Way Up with Angela Yee”, “dishing on her big plans to take up the spotlight after years outside the spotlight. Smollett gave a major cry to Mona-Scott Young For having helped him to draw his Hollywood return, saying: “A large part of the reason why I am even seated here, honestly, and capable of coming back outside and stopping to hide in my apartment and returning to Harlem, it’s really because of Mona.”

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