Jesse Smlet has been removed from the last few episodes of Empire.

It was reported by the police in Chicago.

They believe the reason he staged this hoax was because he was dissatisfied with his salary.

And we have varying reports, some say he was making as much as $65,000 per episode,

while others say it could be upwards of $125,000.

So he stands to lose a couple hundred thousand dollars over this.

But we do have other updates, the proffer from his bond hearing shows

that police had a witness and they were on to him probably from the get-go.

Based on the document released by the CPD,

I believe the police are acting like they didn't know it was a hoax for a while when they actually did.

We're also learning that one of the brothers was actually Jesse Smlet's drug dealer.

Today, let's take a look at the latest news on what happened starting with Jesse getting removed from his show.

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From the rap, Fox removes Jesse Smlet from final two episodes of Empire, season five,

following arrest.

In a statement they said,

The events of the past few weeks have been incredibly emotional for all of us,

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