Majors, seen as one of the future faces of Disney’s Marvel superhero franchise until the allegations stalled his rapid rise, was convicted by a jury of six after a two week trial in state court in Manhattan.
Prosecutors said Majors assaulted his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in a hired car in Manhattan in March, leaving her with a broken finger and swollen arm and ear. He was charged with two assault counts and two harassment counts, all misdemeanours.
Jabbari said over four days of testimony that Majors attacked her after she grabbed his phone upon seeing a text from another woman. She also described his “violent temper” and other incidents where he “exploded” in anger.
“She had shaped herself around the defendant, to cater to his personality, to avoid him being angry with her," prosecutor Kelli Galaway said during closing arguments Thursday.
Majors’ lawyer sought to flip the script, claiming it was Jabbari who victimized Majors by attacking him in the car and then falsely accusing him of assault after he broke up with her.
“You are here to end this nightmare for Jonathan Majors,” lawyer Priya Chaudhry said through tears during her closing argument.
Majors filed his own complaint against Jabbari, prompting her arrest on assault charges in October. But the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later closed the case because it “lacks prosecutorial merit.”
He starred in the 2019 film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” before landing top billing in “Creed III” and Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
Majors was dropped by his management company, public relations firm and several advertisers after his arrest, and Disney removed his upcoming film “Magazine Dreams” from its release schedule.
