Fox Cancels Lee Daniels Shows ‘Empire’ And ‘Star’

May 15. 2019

Jussie Smollett (left) and sugar daddy Lee Daniels (right). Smollett has cost many people their pay checks.

The Fox network has cancelled the Lee Daniels television shows “Empire” and “Star” in the fallout of the Jussie Smollett scandal. The news came as a shock to actors on the show, who are now out of a paycheck, because Smollett lied about a homophobic, racist hate crime that never occurred.

Smollett paid two of his friends from “Empire” to help him stage the sick hoax, then filed a false police report stating two white male Trump supporters beat him up, doused him in bleach, and issued homophobic and racial slurs. Daniels knew Smollett was lying all along but went along with it, wrongly believing it would create public sympathy for gay people such as himself and Smollett and provide a ratings boost.

Jussie Smollett and the Obamas

 There have been criminal cases regarding mentally disturbed gay men harming themselves then reporting it as hate crimes to the police (Man Confesses To Police He Beat Himself Up, Carved Gay Slur Into His Arm, Set His Home On Fire And Filed Hate Crime Police Complaint Blaming It On Homophobia For Attention and Gay Vlogger Pleads Guilty To Faking Homophobic Attack And Filing False Police Report). Filing a false police complaint is a crime in many countries. Do not do it.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife have gotten Smollett out of criminal charges associated with this misconduct in filing the false police report, but the public is very angry over what transpired (The Obamas And Jussie Smollett Have Imperiled The Job Of Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx Who Has Been Hit With A Subpoena In Probe). Smollett and company are now outcasts. Fox is trying to distance itself from the disgrace by cancelling the shows.

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