Jussie Smollett Participates in Hate Crime Hoax Documentary

Two months ago actor Jussie Smollett and the City of Chicago reached a settlement after his conviction on felony disorderly conduct charges for staging the infamous 2019 hate crime hoax [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Jussie will be participating in a documentary set to prove his innocence...

From Deadline

The Jussie Smollett hoax hate crime attack saga is set to be explored in a new documentary.

Netflix has ordered The Truth About Jussie Smollett?, a 90-minute feature doc about the case that, despite occurring in 2019, was just wrapped up, legally speaking, a couple of months ago.

It will feature an interview with former Empire star Smollett himself.

The project comes from All3Media-owned production company Raw, which is behind two of Netflix’s weirder true-crime tales in The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**k with Cats.

The Netflix logline says the Smollett doc is a “shocking true story of an allegedly fake story that some now say might just be a true story. Featuring interviews with police, lawyers, journalists, investigators who claim to have uncovered new evidence about the case, and with Jussie himself, this compelling documentary invites the audience to decide for themselves who is telling The Truth About Jussie Smollett?”

“I’m very excited to be sharing this film with Netflix viewers,” Rehill said. “This story is a thrilling ride, and we were lucky enough to have access to the key players. I wanted this documentary to balance their competing narratives and to also use their compelling, colorful testimonies to thread the light and shade of the story through the film. But much more than that, I wanted this film to speak to the particular moment of rapid cultural change when this takes place in 2019; when, as a society, we were becoming more combative, more polarized, more divergent over our shared reality – when we began to lack a common singular Truth.”