Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a year-long counselling programme for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case. Majors was asked to undergo therapy but was not given jail time for the allegations that derailed the once-promising star’s career.
Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a year-long counselling programme for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case. Majors was asked to undergo therapy but was not given jail time for the allegations that derailed the once-promising star’s career.
The 34-year-old star of Creed III and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanour assault by a Manhattan jury in December 2023.
In court Monday, Judge Michael Gaffey sentenced Majors to conditional discharge after noting that both sides agreed the charges did not warrant jail time, given the actor was a first-time offender with no prior criminal record.
According to the court order, Majors must complete a 52-week, in-person batterer’s intervention programme in Los Angeles, where the actor lives.
He also has to continue with the mental health therapy his lawyers say he’s been participating in.
If he violates the terms, Majors will have to face a year in jail. He has also been ordered to have no contact with his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
While Majors did not speak to the press on Monday, an emotional Jabbari told the court that he refuses to acknowledge his guilt and remains a danger to those around him.
“He’s not sorry. He has not accepted responsibility,” she said. “He will do this again and he will hurt other women. He believes he is above the law.”
Jabbari said Majors had made her believe the two were in a loving relationship, but, in reality, he isolated her from the rest of the world and cut her off from family and friends.
“I was so emotionally dependent on him,” she said. “I became a different person around him — small, scared and vulnerable.”
Rather than acknowledge his actions, Majors has been openly critical of the court proceedings, launching a “high-powered PR campaign” that included a nationally televised interview, added Assistant District Attorney Kelli Galloway as she argued for a sentence of violence counselling for Majors.
Following the December guilty verdict, Majors was immediately dropped by Marvel Studios, which had cast him as Kang the Conqueror, a role envisioned as the main villain in the entertainment empire’s movies and television shows for years to come.
The conviction stemmed from an altercation last March in which Jabbari accused him of attacking her in the backseat of a chauffeured car, saying he hit her head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until it fractured.
Majors claimed the 31-year-old British dancer was the aggressor, flying into a jealous rage after reading a text message from another woman on his phone. He maintained he was only trying to regain his phone and get away from Jabbari safely.
In the suit, Jabbari accuses Majors of assault, battery, defamation and inflicting emotional distress, claiming he subjected her to escalating incidents of physical and verbal abuse during their relationship. The two met in 2021 on the set of Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, in which Majors played Kang.
The actor had his breakthrough role in 2019’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco. He also starred in the HBO horror series Lovecraft Country, which earned him an Emmy nomination, and as the nemesis to fictional boxing champ Adonis Creed in the blockbuster Creed III.
As for Marvel, a looming question remains whether the studio will recast the role of Kang or pivot in a new direction.
