Los Angeles, July 22 -- Streaming giant Netflix is coming up with a documentary about Jussie Smollett and his 2019 hate crime hoax.

'The Truth About Jussie Smollett?' will premiere on August 22, and it features interviews with police, lawyers, journalists and investigators who claim to have "new evidence about the case," Variety reported.

According to Netflix's logline, the 90-minute documentary tells the "shocking true story of an allegedly fake story that some now say might just be a true story."

Smollett was known for playing the starring role of Jamal Lyon on Fox's music drama "Empire." In 2019, he reported himself as the victim of a violent hate crime in Chicago, alleging that two men hurled racial slurs at him, poured an unknown ...