ACTOR Jonathan Majors has been sentenced to one year of domestic violence counseling, avoiding prison time for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
A jury in Manhattan convicted the once-rising star, 34, last December for attacking Jabbari, 31, in the back seat of a taxi in March 2023 and recklessly causing physical injuries.
Jonathan Majors was convicted in a Manhattan courtroom in December 2023Getty
APGrace Jabbari testified against her ex, Majors, during last year’s trial[/caption]
Marvel StudiosJonathan Majors, who portrayed the time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror, was fired by Marvel hours after his conviction[/caption]
Jabbari blasted her ex-boyfriend in her impact statement, saying, “he will hurt other women.”
“He has not accepted responsibility, and he will do this again,” the 31-year-old movement coach said at Majors’ sentencing.
“He will hurt other women… this is a man who thinks he is above the law. I had a career and life and body, all of which he’s damaged.”
Majors, who was facing one year in prison, declined to comment during Monday’s sentencing.
Judge Michael Gaffey issued a full protective order for Jabbari.
If Majors violates the terms, he will be jailed for a year in prison.
The no-jail sentence comes after Majors was convicted by a Manhattan jury last December of one count of reckless assault and one count of harassment.
He was acquitted of a second assault charge and aggravated assault.
After his guilty verdict, Majors was immediately dropped by Marvel Studios, which cast him as the time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror – a role that the actor was envisioned to star in for years to come.
The charges stemmed from a March 25, 2023, domestic violence altercation involving him and Jabbari in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
The incident unfolded after Jabbari grabbed Majors’ phone after seeing a text she believed was from another woman.
The text said, “Wish I was kissing you right now,” according to prosecutors.
Majors allegedly responded by pulling Jabbari’s finger, twisting her arm behind her back, and striking her face in an attempt to retrieve his phone, prosecutors claim.
Surveillance footage showed the moments after the altercation as Majors and Jabbari exited the back of a black SUV.
Majors was seen lifting Jabbari and throwing her back inside the car as the actor ran away.
Prosecutors said Majors stayed in a hotel after the fight and returned to his apartment the following morning to find Jabbari unconscious.
Majors called 911, thinking the British choreographer had committed suicide, according to prosecutors.
The Creed III actor was later arrested and charged with third-degree assault, second-degree harassment, and one count of aggravated harassment charges.
Jabbari’s defense team claimed the former Marvel actor left her in “excruciating pain” after the incident, including a laceration in the back of her ear, bruises, and a broken finger.
JABBARI TESTIFIES AGAINST MAJORS
After Majors’ defense team made several failed attempts to revoke the charges against the actor, the trial began in November 2023, with Jabbari testifying that she feared the Marvel star.
Jabbari told a Manhattan jury that Majors manipulated her by threatening to kill himself and that she endured two years of verbal abuse before the relationship blew over during the March 2023 incident.
Jabbari recalled the moment in the back of a taxi when things deteriorated after she saw a text message on Majors’ phone.
“I was so taken aback,” she testified.
Jabbari claimed Majors kept telling her the text was “not what it seemed.”
“Let me see the messages,” Jabbari told Majors before grabbing the phone she said on the stand.
Within seconds, Jabbari said Majors was on top of her in an attempt to recover his phone.
“I was really heartbroken and sad,” she told the court.
But, during cross-examination, Majors’ attorney, Priya Chaudhry, painted Jabbari as a compulsive liar who sought to derail her partner’s career as revenge.
Chaudhry repeatedly alleged that Jabbari, not Majors, was the aggressor in the vehicle that night.
Majors declined to testify in his defense.
‘I WISH I KNEW’
After his conviction, Majors continued to maintain his innocence and said he deserved a second chance in an interview with Good Morning America.
Majors insisted he did not know how Jabbari suffered her injuries, saying he was not responsible. “That did not happen. I wish to God I knew [what caused her injuries].
“That would give clarity, that would give me some type of peace about it.”
When asked if he felt responsible for Jabbari’s injuries, Majors said, “I shouldn’t have been in the car… I shouldn’t have been in the relationship.
“If I’m not in the car, none of this is happening. If I leave the relationship, none of this is happening.
“If I’m man enough or brave enough to say, ‘I want to see somebody else’ or, ‘I’m done now,’ I’m not in that car. We’re not here. I’m responsible for those things.”
ReutersJonathan Majors is now in a relationship with fellow actress, Meagan Good[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
