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Chicago Files Civil Complaint Against 'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett

The city maintains that Smollett filed a false police report and is seeking repayment of the costs incurred in investigating it.
Actor Jussie Smollett leaves a courthouse last month in Chicago. On Thursday, the city sued him to recoup costs of a police investigation that followed what the city says was his false report that he'd been attacked.

The City of Chicago on Wednesday filed a civil complaint against actor Jussie Smollett trying to recoup the cost of his complaint to police that he'd been

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