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Smollett then entered Cook County Jail to begin serving his 150-day sentence for lying to police about faking a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January 2019. That’s when he claimed that two assailants targeted him on a frigid Chicago night for being Black and gay, beat him, put a rope around his neck, splashed him with a liquid chemical and told him this is “MAGA country.”
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The roughly five-month jail sentence was coupled with 2½ years of felony probation. He was also ordered the entertainer to pay $120,106 in restitution to the city of Chicago and a $25,000 fine for his crimes.
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“I am not suicidal, and I am innocent,” Smollett yelled in the courtroom before being led away in handcuffs. A spokesperson for the jail said that Smollett was not being held in solitary confinement, refuting reports indicating that he was and clarifying that the practice was abolished at the corrections facility in 2016.