{"id":13183,"date":"2019-12-24T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebliveupdate.com\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2019-12-24T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:26:07","slug":"janet-smollett-joel-smollett-children-son-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebliveupdate.com\/janet-smollett-joel-smollett-children-son-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet and Joel Smollett 6 Children; Meet Their Son & Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which parents do not want to raise their kids to become successful human beings? For many parents, it’s all they desire, and something they use their whole life to achieve. So, Janet and Joel Smollett couldn’t ask for anything else then their current lives where all of their six children have grown to be not just successful people but world-famous celebrities.<\/p>\n

Here today, we will be discussing all of their children. You might already know their son Jussie and daughter Jurnee but what about the rest of their children. Learn about their sons and daughters and also their married life as husband and wife.<\/p>\n

Janet and Joel Smollett Married until Death did Them Apart<\/h2>\n

Joel Smollett, the family patriarch, was born on October 8, 1956, to mother Molly Hirschenson and Peter Smollett. His parents were of Polish, Romanian and Russian nationality and belonged to Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. Not much is known about him, but he must have immigrated to America where he would meet his wife, Janet Smollett.<\/p>\n

Janet Smollett was born on November 27, 1952, in America. Like her husband, early years of her life are also missing, but thankfully, we know all the crucial bits that start from how they met. They met in the Bay Area of Oakland, where Janet was one of the top activists for the civil rights movement. Janet Smollett even worked closely with Black Panther Party founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.<\/p>\n

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Janet Smollett and her late husband, Joel Smollett<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Her future-husband also happened to support the cause and joined the campaign. So in a way, their love story began like that of a movie where two activist rebels, falling in love. Anyway, a few years later, they got married and had six children together. All of their children were super-talented, and their parents wasted no opportunity to promote and encourage them to be successful artists.<\/p>\n

Joel Smollett, unfortunately, died on January 15, 2015, after a long tiresome battle with cancer. At least Joel got to see all of his children grow up to be beautiful people before he passed away. Let us look at a brief bio and net worth of all his children; Jazz, Jojo, Jurnee, Jussie, Jack, and Jocqui.<\/p>\n

Jojo Smollett Net Worth & Bio<\/h2>\n

Jojo Smollet is the eldest of his siblings being born first on August 28, 1977, in New York City, New York. He, like the rest of his siblings, started as a child actor with their 90s NBC sitcom ‘On Our Own’ featuring all five of his siblings. Since then, he has appeared in the series ‘The Practice’ in 1997 and movies like City of Hope and Last Breeze of Summer in 1991.<\/p>\n

Despite having a good career in Hollywood, we are unable to find his net worth. Maybe he did not hold a career-long or big enough to estimate his net worth quickly. Recently, he is not active in the acting scene, the last we heard he was working in a non-profit in 2016.<\/p>\n

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American actor, Jojo Smollett<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Despite not being active as a celebrity, lights fall on his due to his relatively more famous siblings. He was very vocal in defending his brother, who was accused of reporting a falsified incident of a racial hate crime in early 2019. We would read about it in detail shortly. Jojo wrote a letter to Bet titled, “What if Jussie is telling the truth?”<\/p>\n

Aside from stating his brother’s side of the incident, Jojo also brought to light that the continuous attack on his little brother’s reputation and character with the case was a traumatic experience. He further reported that Jussie was even having violent night terrors.<\/p>\n

Jazz Smollett Net Worth & Bio<\/h2>\n

Jazz Smollett, the second-oldest, was born on April 1, 1980, in California. She also tried her hand in acting after ‘On Our Own.’ However, she couldn’t seem to find as much success as the rest of her siblings. She has a couple of credentials, in short, low-budget movies like ‘I Want You’ and ‘Always with You.’ She also worked behind the scenes as a producer and production manager in many projects too.<\/p>\n

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American actress, Jazz Smollett<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Due to the lack of information in her career, we do not know her exact net worth as of now. However, she is also part of their family’s cooking business. She frequently appears in their siblings’ cooking show on the Food Network called ‘Smollett Eats.’ She also collaborated with the rest of her siblings to produce their family-based cookbook called ‘The Family Table Cookbook, ‘ which sells for a little over $19 on Amazon.<\/p>\n

Jussie Smollett Net Worth & Bio<\/h2>\n

Jussie Smollett is another much more popular of the Smollett siblings. He was born on June 21, 1982, in Santa Rosa, California. Jussie thrived as a child artist appearing in movies like ‘The Mighty Ducks’ while also looking in ‘On Our Own.’<\/p>\n

He also was in the 2017 ‘Alien: The Covenant’ movie, but perhaps he is most reputed for being in the hit FOX musical drama series ‘Empire<\/a>.’ His entire career sets him at a net worth of around $500,000.<\/p>\n

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Actor, Jussie Smollett<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Smollett, on his 2015 appearance in Ellen DeGeneres’s show, came out as gay. He later also added that he is gay, but in the future, if he were to love a woman, he would gladly marry her.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Jussie Smollet is still not entirely over a significant controversy. On January 29, he filed a police report on being a target of a racial and homophobic hate crime by two men wearing ski masks near his residential area. After police investigation and court trials, on February 20, the jury reversed the tables on Smollett.<\/p>\n