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EXCLUSIVE Brothers who helped Jussie Smollett in vile anti-Trump hoax issue disgraced actor bombshell demand By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 17:07, 23 November 2024 | Updated: 17:22, 23 November 2024 e-mail View comments The Nigerian brothers who were made a laughingstock after being wrapped up in Jussie Smollett 's anti-Trump hoax have demanded the actor finally come clean, saying the stunt 'ruined' their lives for years. Abel and Ola Osundairo told DailyMail.

com in an interview that the claims against them severed their budding acting careers back in 2019, and said 'people just didn't want anything to do with us.' 'I had agents pull out from our relationship,' Abel said. 'We had friends and family asking us questions about it, strangers accusing us.



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it was all very negative.' 'Places where we tried to work wouldn't hire us, and there were people that just didn't want anything to do with us.' The brothers found themselves at the center of a media firestorm five years ago when they say Smollett convinced them to stage a bizarre stunt so the actor could claim he was beaten and almost lynched by men wearing MAGA hats.

But his story fell apart after cops traced the stunt to the Osundairo brothers, and while they came clean and said they were trying to innocently help out a friend, Smollett has maintained his innocence. 'He won't admit his guilt, and him claiming that he's innocent means that we're lying, and those both can't be true,' Ola said. 'He needs to face i.

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