Jussie Smollett will give $50,000 to a West Side nonprofit to settle a city lawsuit filed against him to recover $130,000 in taxpayer dollars that were spent investigating the hate crime hoax he allegedly staged in 2019.

The ex-”Empire” TV star previously forfeited to the city his $10,000 bond paid after being charged with 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for hiring men to pretend to beat him up while shouting racist, homophobic slurs in Streeterville, prosecutors said.

That was part of Smollett’s non-prosecution agreement with former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office, which also saw him complete 16 hours of community service.

He was later tried by a special prosecutor and convicted of five counts, serving six days of a 150-day jail sentence pending an appeal. But las

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