So this actor Jussie Smollett was claiming that he was attacked by couple man on street that beat him up while yelling racial and homophobic slurs. This got lot of media attention and people were condemning it as hate crime. However some people were doubting the story and now it has came out that Jussie Smollett was arrested and Chigaco's police is claiming that Jussie had actually paid for these men to rough him up and most of his wounds were self-inflicted.
Motivation is speculated to be that he wanted publicity with this so he could get his name out there, become more famous and get higher salaries as actor.
I don't think he will have career anymore to return to when he gets back from prison..
(now the prosecution of this isn't done yet, but everything seems to point out that he's guilty)
Philip DeFranco has quite good run down on what has been happening about this (first story):
Motivation is speculated to be that he wanted publicity with this so he could get his name out there, become more famous and get higher salaries as actor.
I don't think he will have career anymore to return to when he gets back from prison..
(now the prosecution of this isn't done yet, but everything seems to point out that he's guilty)
Philip DeFranco has quite good run down on what has been happening about this (first story):