Nigerian brothers who were by Jussie Smollett recreate 'attack'

Nigerian brothers who were paid $3,500 by shamed Empire actor Jussie Smollett to stage hate crime in Chicago street recreate ‘attack’ to show exactly how they made it look ‘as though he really did get his a** beat’

• Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario recreated how they staged the attack on actor Jussie Smollett in January 2019
• One even noted he gave the actor a ‘noogie’ to make it look like he had a scar
• Smollett had paid the brothers in a shameless bid to coax sympathy 

The Nigerian brothers who were paid by disgraced Empire actor Jussie Smollett to carry out a staged attack on him have broken their silence in a bombshell interview and recreated the incident to show how they made it look real.

In a segment for a FOX Nation docuseries on Smollett’s web of lies, brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario explain exactly what happened on January 29, 2019 when they confronted the one-time actor on the streets of Chicago.

Smollett had claimed he was attacked by white supremacists who called him the N-word and yelled ‘This is MAGA country,’ in an apparent effort to blame the racism on former President Donald Trump.

But an investigation later found that Smollett staged the entire thing, paying the brothers $3,500 for the attack, in a shameless bid to coax sympathy from the public.

He was convicted on five felony counts in 2021 and sentenced to 150 days behind bars, but was released while his legal team appeals his conviction.

Nigerian brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario recreated how they staged the attack on actor Jussie Smollett in January 2019

One of the brothers even noted he gave the actor a ‘noogie’ to make it look like he had a scar

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 In Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax, the Osundarios return to the scene of the ‘crime’ and share how they gave him a ‘noogie’ and poured bleach on his shirt before they ran away in the darkness of night.

The brothers took cameras to the spot where they sat on a bench waiting in the cold for Smollett at 2am on January 29.

‘We had no phones because he did not want us to bring any phones,’ Abimbola said. ‘He said, “So we don’t lose them.” I don’t know if that’s really the reason, but you can deduce your own reason.’

He claimed Smollett told them to show up at exactly 2am, but ‘he was nowhere to be found, so we’re like “Damn, what do we do?”

‘We had no way of contacting him, he had no way of contacting us.’

At that point, his brother interjected to say that they were waiting for Smollett for about four minutes ‘but it felt like forever.’

‘Because it was cold as balls,’ Abimbola explained.

Eventually, he said, he saw Smollett walking ‘out the corner of my eye,’ and the two sprang into action remarking ‘We gotta go get this Empire f******’ and ‘Let’s get that n*****.’

When they go to cross the street, Abimbola said, they said ‘Hey n*****’ to get his attention, ‘and then he turned around, looked at us and that’s when we started yelling the famous slurs he wanted us to yell.’

Among those slurs was ‘This is MAGA country.’

‘And then he said, “What did you say to me?” And that’s when I threw the first punch at him. I held the blow, of course, so I made it look real.

‘And then we started tussling, moving around and then I threw him to the ground,’ Abimbola continued, noting: ‘He wanted it to look like he fought back. That was very important to him.’

Abimbola said he ‘wanted it to look more real, so then I threw him to the ground. I used my knuckle to give him a nooggie,’ demonstrating how he balled his face and rotated around Smollett’s eye.

‘Why did I do that? To make it look like he had a scar , to give him a mark, to make it look real like he really did get his a** beat,’ he explained. ‘After I did that, I fake kicked him.’

That’s when Olabinjo said he ‘came around with the bleach — the infamous bleach n the hot sauce bottle, poured it on his shirt, then I finally put the rope around his face.

‘I did not put it around his neck,’ he emphasized. ‘I just placed it on his face, and that’s when we took off.’ 

But when cops arrived at Smollett’s apartment 40 minutes after he made the call to police about a hate crime, he still had a white noose around his neck. He said he left it on to show the cops what happened as he also pointed to the bleach on his shirt.

Smollett’s face is blurred but he’s seen holding the long white rope nose around his neck

Smollett has repeatedly denied that he staged the incident. He is pictured here in court last year

But after just three days of probing the incident, cops began to hone in on the brothers – and subsequently suspected that Smollett’s hate crime claims were, in fact, bogus. 

Video evidence from more than 55 sources would prove that narrative to be true, unmasking the brothers as the definite culprits.

At this point, due to conflicting accounts offered by Smollett, cops knew the incident was a hoax – but were then faced with the task with forcing it from the brothers’ mouths themselves.

Cops quickly encountered a road block after learning the pair were out of the country, but would only have to wait a few weeks before they would return.

They eventually were able to confront the brothers when they handed over their passports.

They were held in a Cook County detention cell for 47 hours before they cracked and owned up to taking part in Smollett’s strange plot for the first time – which they said the actor designed with the ultimate goal of being viewed as a hero for not only the LGBTQ community, but to black people as well. 

In the aftermath, the brothers said they were dumbfounded by Smollett’s public remarks about the experience.

The brothers’ in-depth testimonies recounted how Smollett orchestrated the plot and sought them as accomplices enabled jurors to reach a guilty verdict in the high profile case – a ruling the actor last year appealed, allowing him to pause his 150-day sentence after just six days

Considered the state’s star witnesses at the time, the brother’s both delivered in-depth testimonies that laid bare the plot, leading to the actor’s conviction in December 2021 

Speaking about how the actor consistently lied and tried to play innocent after the hoax, the brothers told Fox Nation: ‘Insane. That’s when I really saw a different side of Jussie. Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a super villain.’

‘I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a fraud,’ said Amibola of Smollett’s continued attitude toward the incident, which has remained unchanged since his 2021 trial. 

‘This guy is really just sitting her, lying to these people. Lying through his teeth, and not caring,’ he said, referencing how Smollett ‘even shed a tear’ during a now widely seen interview with ABC News in which he denied the attack was a hoax.

Calling the actor ‘crazy’ for his continued devotion to the ruse, Amibola admitted that he feels betrayed by Smollett for not embracing his guilt, and taking the fall as he and his brother were forced to do 

‘I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done. I didn’t know what to do – I wasn’t ready to say anything. Like, I was mute. And I didn’t want to say anything.’

They added that they felt Smollett just wanted to be ‘the poster child for activism,’ with Ambibola saying: ‘He wanted to be the hero for gay people, for black people.’

The two brothers ultimately testified against their one-time friend in court and were able to walk away from the incident with just two years’ probation and a small fine, after cooperating with police and unmasking the ruse.

The FOX docuseries marks the first time the brothers spoke publicly about their role in the hoax.

It also features exclusive interviews with police officers and other key figures who played a part in unearthing the scam.

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