Jussie Smollett’s legal team doubled down on his refusal to reimburse the city of Chicago for investigating his alleged January attack, calling the city’s threats to sue the “Empire” star malicious and made “in bad faith.”
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In a letter late Thursday to the city’s Department of Law, Smollett’s defense attorney Mark Geragos railed against the city and summed up its repayment demand letter as “a course of conduct intended to harass and irreparably injure Mr. Smollett.” “Your letter is both factually and legally flawed, and Mr. Smollett will not be intimidated into paying the demanded sum,” Geragos wrote in a response letter obtained by The Times., the city’s continued claims that he filed a false police report and orchestrated his own attack are “false and defamatory.
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