Jussie Smollett Atty Scores Exit In Attackers' Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

An Illinois federal judge on Friday tossed a defamation suit against the Geragos & Geragos attorney who defended actor Jussie Smollett against charges that he filed a false police report on a staged hate crime, saying that a "whiteface statement" she made about Smollett's attackers on national television was substantially true.

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