Newly released documents regarding Jussie Smollett's case have revealed text messages in which the Empire star texted the Nigerian brothers asking for drugs.

The messages show Smollett asking either Abel and Ola Osundairo for help to acquire 'good pills' with nicknames revealed to be for cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana.

'N***a you still got a molly connect?' one of his messages from September 27, 2018 reads. 'Imma need a good fo pills hahaha (sic)'.

He then sends a verification code from Venmo, an online payment app.

One of the Nigerian brothers, although it remains unclear which, then replies: 'Got it'.

Smollett asks one of the brothers where they are and asks if they want to bring it to his house.

'You wanna come through? If not I can get it tomorrow,' he writes.

'I'm falling asleep,' one of the brothers responsed. 'You can get it tomorrow.'

Documents state that Smollett and one of the Nigerian brothers began texting on February 24, 2018 and continued through March 15, 2019.

A week later, the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office dropped all charges against Smollett.

The Empire star has found himself in headlines for all the wrong reasons after he was accused of staging a hate crime attack on himself in January.

Text records revealed that there were 'various occasions' in which Smollett would request the Nigerian brother to procure items for him 'described as weed, molly, or Whitney', known slang for marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine.

In July 2018, Smollett and the Nigerian brother exchanged texts regarding him obtaining 'Whitney' and how to pay for it, the documents state.

Payment was arranged via Venmo and Smollett later sent a text stating that he just sent $200.

On August 27, 2018, Smollett requested that the brother obtain weed for him. The price was discussed and Smollett once again paid him through Venmo.

The Chicago Police Department released nearly 500 pages of case reports, arrest files and supplementary files related to Smollett's case on Thursday.

A Cook County judge ordered that the documents in the case be unsealed.

Investigators alleged that Smollett had recruited the Osundairo brothers to stage the hoax attack, hoping it would help him get a salary raise on Empire.

Chicago police said the Osundairo brothers confessed to helping Smollett stage the attack.

Smollett had told cops that he had an untreated drug problem after his arrest.

Smollett responded 'no' when asked about alcohol or mental health problems, according to booking documents. But he may have dropped hints about a drug issue to lay groundwork for a possible defense strategy. </s> CLOSE Two brothers who said they helped Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack against himself are suing the "Empire" actor's attorneys for defamation. (April 23) AP, AP

New documents released by Chicago police Thursday show Jussie Smollett discussing drugs with the two brothers who accused the "Empire" actor of paying them to stage an attack on him.

The texts were among the 460 pages released by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and Chicago Police Department Thursday after a judge ordered Smollett's case file unsealed last week.

The documents show that Smollett initially communicated with Abimbola 'Abel' and Olabinjo “Ola Osundairo about buying marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy before enlisting them to stage his alleged attack on Jan. 29. The brothers later told Chicago police that Smollett paid them to stage the attack on him.

"It was found during the review of these text records that on various occasions Smollett would request that (redacted) procure items for Smollett which Smollett described as weed, molly, or Whitney, which the (case report) was familiar with being slang for cannabis and controlled substances," the documents read. "In particular, weed is slang for cannabis, molly is slang for ecstasy and whitney is slang for cocaine."

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The report notes that Smollett used the electronic payment methods PayPal and Venmo to pay for the transactions, and that on multiple occasions, Smollett appeared to describe his payment to the brothers for the drugs as payment for "legitimate expenses" like personal training.

“(Expletive), you still got a molly connect?” Smollett texted one of the brothers on Sept. 27, 2018. “Hahahaha… Imma need a good fo pills Haha.”

After completing multiple drug transactions with the brothers, Smollett texted one of them in January, “Might need your help on the low. You around to meet up and talk face to face?”

Following this exchange, the case file alleges that Smollett gave the brothers a check for $3,500, labeled as payment for a “5-week nutrition/workout program," and asked the brothers to pretend to beat him up while calling him homophobic and racial slurs.

After the brothers told detectives about the alleged conspiracy, Smollett was indicted on 16 counts of disorderly conduct and lying to police, one charge for each time the actor "knowingly" told police that he was the victim of a "battery, a hate crime and an aggravated battery."

After prosecutors suddenly dropped all the charges against him on March 26, Cook County Judge Steve Watkins assented to Smollett's request that his case file be sealed, citing his right to privacy. But media companies, including USA TODAY parent company Gannett, argued that that the actor invalidated those concerns by discussing the case on national television. Watkins agreed two months after putting the case file off limits, he ordered its contents be released.

The unsealed documents, which also included case reports, arrest reports and supplementary files from the investigation revealed that the detectives investigating Smollett were aware there was a potential deal in the works between Smollett and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to drop the charges a month before it was announced.

At the time, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blasted the deal, saying the alleged hoax had unnecessarily tied up police personnel and harmed the city’s reputation.

On Thursday, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the detectives did not pass that information to superiors because they assumed – incorrectly, as it turned out – that any deal would include Smollett admitting to wrongdoing.

Instead, after the charges were dropped, Smollett insisted that he had been "truthful and consistent on every single level since Day 1."

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Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/05/31/jussie-smollett-bought-drugs-brothers-who-attacked-him/1296878001/ </s> Newly released documents regarding Jussie Smollett's case have revealed text messages in which the Empire star texted the Nigerian brothers asking for drugs.

The messages show Smollett asking either Abel and Ola Osundairo for help to acquire 'good pills' with nicknames revealed to be for cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana.

'N***a you still got a molly connect?' one of his messages from September 27, 2018 reads. 'Imma need a good fo pills hahaha (sic)'.

He then sends a verification code from Venmo, an online payment app.

One of the Nigerian brothers, although it remains unclear which, then replies: 'Got it'.

Smollett asks one of the brothers where they are and asks if they want to bring it to his house.

'You wanna come through? If not I can get it tomorrow,' he writes.

'I'm falling asleep,' one of the brothers respons. 'You can get it tomorrow.'

Documents state that Smollett and one of the Nigerian brothers began texting on February 24, 2018 and continued through March 15, 2019.

A week later, the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office dropped all charges against Smollett.

The Empire star has found himself in headlines for all the wrong reasons after he was accused of staging a hate crime attack on himself in January.

Text records revealed that there were 'various occasions' in which Smollett would request the Nigerian brother to procure items for him 'described as weed, molly, or Whitney', known slang for marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine.

In July 2018, Smollett and the Nigerian brother exchanged texts regarding him obtaining 'Whitney' and how to pay for it, the documents state.

Payment was arranged via Venmo and Smollett later sent a text stating that he just sent $200.

On August 27, 2018, Smollett requested that the brother obtain weed for him. The price was discussed and Smollett once again paid him through Venmo. </s> When Jussie Smollett was told his Nigerian trainer and his brother had been arrested for the 'homophobic, racist' attack he said he was the victim of, he reacted with: 'It can't be them, they'e black as sin.'

His reaction was revealed for the first time on Thursday, buried in 470 pages of previously sealed Chicago PD files that have finally been made public.

The files, which DailyMail.com is still reviewing, also reveal how Smollett changed his story throughout the police investigation, first telling police one of his attackers was white, then 'pale' and admitting that he had 'presumed' they were white because of what he claimed they said to him - 'This MAGA country'.

Smollett, 36, also changed his phone number immediately after the attack but used it to speak with Abel and Ola Osundairo, the Nigerian brothers, in the hours and days after the January 29 incident.

In early interviews, he told police he had spoken only to his creative director and to his manager on the night of the attack after landing back in Chicago from New York.

He then added into his story that he had spoken to his 'trainer', Abel, about a diet and nutrition plan.

Harvested text messages between him and the brothers also show how they discussed drugs, calling cocaine 'Whitney'.

He asked them for good 'pills', said: 'N***a you still got a Molly connect? Imma need a good fo pills hahahaha (sic)' on September 27, 2018.

Smollett also sent them money on Venmo.

When police told him that the brothers, whose mugshots were also released for the first time on Thursday, had been arrested, Smollett allegedly feigned surprise.

'We don't have any problems. They are straight so we don't have any problems with women or men. They did not owe me any money, I don't owe them any money. We have a good relationship,' he said.

He then signed documents to have police press charges but his attorney stopped him.

In the September texts about 'molly' and 'whitney, Smollett asked Abel where he was and asks if the wanted to come over.

'You wanna come through? If not I can get it tomorrow,' he writes.

'I'm falling asleep,'he responded. 'You can get it tomorrow.'

Documents state that Smollett and one of the Nigerian brothers began texting on February 24, 2018.

The brothers were picked up from Chicago O'Hare airport after arriving back from Nigeria on February 13.

In March, the charges against him were sensationally dropped and the case was sealed, a decision which outraged the public and the media.

It was unsealed earlier this month by a judge who said the Empire actor - who has been called guilty by the very prosecutors who let him off with a $10,000 bond forfeiture and 16 hours of community service - has no right to privacy.

Rather than retreat from the limelight since he had the charges dropped, Smollett spoke at the courthouse and his attorneys have given multiple interviews condemning the police department and maintaining he is innocent. </s> Lawyers for Jussie Smollett say charges against him have been dropped

Lawyers for Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack, say all the charges against him have been dropped.

The announcement comes following an "emergency" court appearance in Chicago, according to US media.

Smollett, 36, who is black and openly gay, had been accused of hiring two men to help stage an attack in the early hours of 29 January.

He pleaded not guilty to charges at a hearing earlier this month and had been due to appear in court again on 17 April until today's announcement.

In a statement, Smollett's attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said his record had now "been wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him".

"Jussie was attacked by two people he was unable to identify on 29 January," they said. "He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.

"Jussie and many others were hurt by these unfair and unwarranted actions. This entire situation is a reminder that there should never be an attempt to prove a case in the court of public opinion. That is wrong.

"it is a reminder that a victim, in this case Jussie, deserves dignity and respect.

"Dismissal of charges against the victim in this case was the only just result.

"Jussie is relieved to have this situation behind him and is very much looking forward to getting back to focusing on his family, friends and career."

A spokeswoman for Cook County prosecutors did not immediately respond to messages requesting comment.

In his report to police, Smollett said he had been attacked on his way home from a sandwich shop, by two masked men who shouted racial and anti-gay slurs. The men poured bleach on him, beat him and looped a rope around his neck, the actor said.

He claimed they shouted, "This is MAGA country", a reference to President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again campaign slogan.

But police and prosecutors accused him of making a false report because he was unhappy with his pay on Fox show Empire, and wanted to promote his career.

Officers said Smollett paid brothers Abimbola "Abel" and Olabinjo "Ola" Osundairo $3,500 (£2,650) to carry out the attack. One of them had worked on Empire.

A lawyer for the brothers had said they agreed to help Smollett because of their friendship and the sense that he was helping their careers.

Police have also said that before the attack, Smollett sent a letter that threatened him to the Chicago studio where Empire is shot.

The FBI, which is investigating that letter, has declined to comment on the investigation.
New documents reveal that Jussie Smollett bought drugs from Abimbola 'Abel' and Olabinjo “Ola Osundairo, the two people who accused him of staging an attack on January 29.