Jsie Smollett, who starred on the TV show Empire took the wns stand Monday at his trial on charg of stagg a racist, anti-gay attack on himself and lyg to Chigo police about .
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- PHOTO SHOWS OLA OSUNDAIRO WORKG GAY PRI PARA TROJAN COSTUME
- JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
PHOTO SHOWS OLA OSUNDAIRO WORKG GAY PRI PARA TROJAN COSTUME
CHICAGO — The two brothers at the center of Jsie Smollett’s crimal trial faced btal cross-examatns on Thursday as they were pated as homophobic, dg-alg opportunists who had a history of lyg and tend to hurt the actor.
JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
Abimbola Osundairo, 28, was grilled for two hours by Smollett’s attorney Shay Allen, who alleged that he and the “Empire” actor had prevly dated and had masturbated together at a gay bathhoe and that the attack was fueled by a sire to be the actor’s secury guard. Olabjo Osundairo, 30, was qutned on past homophobic ments he ma and admted he ed such rogatory terms toward men he “spected” were gay.
The brothers allege that Smollett paid them to drs up like MAGA-lovg “Tmp supporters” and “fake beat him up” that night, while the fense claims the attack on the gay actor was an actual hate crime fueled by the Osundairos’ homophobia. On Wednday, Abimbola had told jurors that he and Smollett had gone to the Steamworks bathhoe together Chigo’s Boystown neighborhood, a predomantly gay muny, and on Thursday, Allen asked if gay pornography was played on the televisns si the spa. “You don’t rell seeg gay pornography?...
Attemptg to st Abimbola as a homophobe, Allen mentned that homosexualy is illegal Nigeria, where the brothers have strong ti, and claimed Abimbola had lled someone on the set of “Empire” a “f- - - -t. Defense attorney Tamara Walker spent hours pepperg him wh qutns about homophobic ments he had ma and discrepanci his ttimony.