Nigerian brothers who were paid $3,500 by disgraced Empire actor Jussie Smollett are re-enacting the ‘assault’

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

In a segment for a FOX Nation documentary about Smollett’s web of lies, brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario explain exactly what happened on January 29, 2019 when they confronted the former 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 attempt to blame the racism on former President Donald Trump.

But a later investigation revealed that Smollett staged the whole thing and paid the brothers $3,500 for the attack. in a shameless offer to elicit public sympathy.

He was convicted of five felonies in 2021 and sentenced to 150 days behind bars, but was released when his legal team appealed his conviction.

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

One of the brothers even remarked that he gave the actor a “noogie” to make it look like he had a scar

In Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax, the Osundarios return to the crime scene and tell how they gave him a “noogie” and poured bleach on his shirt before running away in the dark of night.

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

“We didn’t have phones because he didn’t want us to bring any phones,” Abimbola said. “He said, ‘So we don’t lose her.’ 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 2am exactly, but “he was nowhere to be found, so we’re like, ‘Fuck, what are we doing?

“We had no way of contacting him, he had no way of contacting us.”

At this point, his brother interjected that they waited about four minutes for Smollett, “but it felt like forever.”

“Because it was freezing cold,” Abimbola explained.

At one point, he said, he saw Smollett leave “out of the corner of his eye,” and the two jumped into action, noting, “We gotta go get that Empire shit” and “Let’s get that”*.’

As they crossed 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 insults that he wanted cry.’

Among those insults was “This is MAGA country.”

“And then he said, ‘What did you say to me? And that’s when I hit him first. I held back the punch naturally, so I made it look real.

“And then we started fighting, 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 I threw him on the floor. I used my knuckle to give him a nooggie,” demonstrated how he clenched his face and twisted 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 got his ass,” he explained. “After I did that, I accidentally kicked him.”

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

“I didn’t put it around his neck,” he emphasized. “I just put it on his face and then we took off.”

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

Smollett’s face is blurred, but you can see him holding the long white rope nose around his neck

Smollett has repeatedly denied orchestrating the incident. He is pictured here in court last year

But after investigating the incident for just three days, police officers began to get to the bottom of the brothers – and subsequently suspected that Smollett’s hate crime claims were in fact false.

Video evidence from more than 55 sources would prove this narrative to be true, exposing the brothers as the clear culprits.

By then, police officers knew the incident was a hoax from conflicting reports from Smollett – but were then faced with the task of forcing it out of the brothers’ mouths themselves.

Police officers quickly encountered a roadblock after learning the couple was out of the country, but only had to wait a few weeks before they would return.

Eventually they were able to confront the brothers as they handed them their passports.

They were held in a Cook County holding cell for 47 hours before collapsing and professing to be part of Smollett’s strange conspiracy for the first time – which the actor allegedly devised with the ultimate goal of being seen as a hero, not just for the LGBTQ community, but also for black people.

Subsequently, the brothers said they were taken aback by Smollett’s public statements about the experience.

The brothers’ detailed testimonies told how Smollett orchestrated the conspiracy and sought them out as accomplices, allowing the jury to reach a guilty verdict in the high-profile case — a verdict the actor appealed last year, allowing him to set his 150-day prison sentence after only 150 days to interrupt 6 days

The two brothers, who were considered star state witnesses at the time, provided in-depth testimony that exposed the conspiracy and led to the actor’s conviction in December 2021

Speaking about how the actor constantly lied and tried to play innocent after the scam, the brothers told Fox Nation: “Insane. I really saw a different side of Jussie there. How, dude, really? That’s when I knew this guy was like a super villain.

“I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a con artist,” Amibola said of Smollett’s ongoing stance on the incident, which has remained unchanged since his trial in 2021.

“This guy really just sits across from her and lies to these people. Lying through your teeth and not caring,” he said, referring to how Smollett “even shed a tear” during a now-widespread interview with ABC News, in which he denied the attack was a hoax.

Amibola called the actor “insane” for his continued devotion to the ruse and admitted he feels betrayed by Smollett for not accepting his guilt and taking the fall as he and his brother were forced to

“I felt 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 boy for activism,” while Ambibola said, “He wanted to be the hero for gays, for blacks.”

The two brothers eventually testified in court against their one-time boyfriend and, after cooperating with police and debunking the ruse, were able to put the incident behind them with just two years of probation and a small fine.

The FOX documentaries mark the first time the brothers have spoken publicly about their role in the scam.

It also includes exclusive interviews with police officers and other key figures involved in uncovering the scam.