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Actor Jonathan Majors has been sentenced to spend 52 weeks in a domestic-violence intervention program for third-degree reckless assault and harassment.
He had been convicted in December on the charges, which are punishable by up to one year in prison. If he does not satisfactorily complete the program in Los Angeles, he could still be sentenced to 364 days in jail on the misdemeanor charge.
Judge Michael Gaffey also put in place a protection order for Majors’s ex-girlfriend actress Grace Jabbari. She testified that on March 25, 2023, Majors had assaulted her while the two were riding in an automobile. According to Jabbari’s testimony, she grabbed the actor’s cellphone when she saw a text message from another woman that read “Oh how I wish to be kissing you.” Meyers responded by prying her fingers from the device, twisting her forearm and striking her head, she said. The harassment charge stemmed from the fact that Meyers later threw her back into the vehicle.
After a trial that lasted two weeks, a jury convicted Majors on two charges while finding him not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
When he was sentenced on Monday of this week, Majors was in court with his current girlfriend Meagan Good, who had been with him during the entire trial. He appeared to be reading from a Bible before the sentencing was imposed.
Jabbari was not convinced that Majors was going to mend his ways. “He’s not sorry. He has not accepted responsibility, and he will do this again. He will hurt other women. This is a man who believes he’s above the law,” she said, adding that “I will not rest until I feel that he’s not a danger to anyone else.”
Majors still must deal with a civil suit filed by Jabbari, who is accusing him of assault and battery dating back to 2022, as well as defamation.
As a result of his legal troubles, Majors was dropped by Marvel Studios from his role as Kang the Conqueror in upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe films. He was also dropped by his public-relations firm, The Lede Company, and by his managers at Entertainment 360.
Jabbari’s attorney Ross Kramer, who approved of the verdict, was quoted as saying: “What Grace Jabbari did over the past year was incredibly brave, and important. She overcame every obstacle put in her path to give honest, emotional, public testimony, in a court very far from her home. Grace demonstrated that justice can be served in cases like this. Hopefully, her example will empower other survivors to break their silence and hold their abusers accountable.”
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