A charge of disorderly conduct has been approved against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, according to an email from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Smollett told authorities that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. In a statement before Smollett was named a suspect, 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the series "Empire" on which Smollett appears, and Fox Entertainment expressed support for the actor. The actor told detectives two men attacked him near the lower entrance of a Loews hotel in Chicago, according to police spokesman Guglielmi. Smollett told ABC News the drawing was of a "stick figure hanging from a tree which had a gun pointing towards it."

Source: CNN February 20, 2019 18:57 UTC