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Jussie Smollett’s attorney wants Nigerian brothers investigated

Jussie Smollett walked free Tuesday — but that wasn’t enough for his attorney, who left the door open for investigators to probe the two brothers Smollett purportedly paid to stage the bias attack.

“The two men who attacked him have indicated that they attacked him,” Patricia Brown Holmes said when asked if cops should resume the search for Smollett’s assailants now that prosecutors have dropped all charges against the “Empire” actor. “The two brothers have said that they attacked him.”

Cops concluded that Smollett paid bodybuilders Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo $3,500 to don masks and douse him with bleach in what was supposed to look like an racist and homophobic beating with enough certainty for prosecutors to indict Smollett.

Neither of the brothers was ever charged, and “The Osundairo brothers said more than once that the $3,500 check they received was for exactly what Jussie said,” insisted Holmes. “It was for nutrition and training. They were his trainers.”

With Chicago prosecutors now declining to go after Smollett for his purported part in the plot, the only ones left as possible targets for an investigation would be the brothers.

“That’s up to the state,” Holmes said, when asked if the brothers — who once had small roles in Smollett’s hit Fox drama — should face charges.

“We don’t want to try them in the press any more than [Smollett] wanted to be tried in the press,” Holmes added in declining further comment on the pair.

One source close to the case tried to pin the whole thing on the brothers’ lawyer, Gloria Schmidt, arguing that she told investigators what they wanted to hear — and they ate it up.

“There was in fact texts and all kinds of supporting documents that showed that the $3,500 was indeed for training,” the source said. “Much of what happened appears to have been a lawyer-generated story while those two guys [the brothers] were in custody.”

“Gloria Schmidt created this whole narrative and the police department took it as gospel.”

The brothers’ legal team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.