Overview

• Jussie Smollett agreed to donate $50,000 to the Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts and $10,000 to the Chicago Torture Justice Center to settle the city's lawsuit.
• The lawsuit sought $130,000 to recover costs from investigating Smollett's 2019 false hate crime report.
• Smollett maintains his innocence, claiming the settlement is not an admission of guilt and accusing city officials of tarnishing his reputation.
• The Illinois Supreme Court overturned Smollett's 2021 conviction on Fifth Amendment grounds but did not address the evidence of his guilt.
• Special prosecutor Dan Webb emphasized that the court's decision did not exonerate Smollett or dispute the jury's unanimous guilty verdict.