A Manhattan jury has convicted Jonathan Majors on charges stemming from a fight with his then girlfriend Grace Jabbari inside a hired car.
A Manhattan jury convicted Jonathan Majors on Monday on charges stemming from a fight with his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari inside a hired car — possibly crippling the rising Hollywood star’s plans to headline future Marvel superhero films.
The guilty verdict — on one misdemeanor count of assault and one harassment violation — came after Jabbari, 30, testified that she lived in fear of Majors’ violent outbursts during a traumatic, two-year-relationship that ended after the actor struck a “hard blow” across her head inside a private car as it rode over the Manhattan Bridge.
Majors, 34, faces up to one year behind bars at his sentencing, though he is more likely to receive a non-jail sentence of probation and mandated treatment.
He stood stoically in Manhattan Criminal Court as the verdict was read following about seven hours of deliberations over three days.
The March 25 encounter at the center of the case erupted in the back seat of a black Cadillac Escalade when Jabbari snatched Majors’ cellphone away after spotting a flirty text — which read “I wish I was kissing you” — from another woman named “Cleopatra,” trial testimony in Manhattan Criminal Court revealed.
As Majors tried to pry back his phone, Jabbari attempted to “protect myself” by curling her body away from the actor, she told jurors.
Majors then twisted her arm behind her back, causing “excruciating pain,” grabbed at her fingers and hit her with an open hand, Jabbari testified.
“I felt like a hard blow across my head,” she told jurors, smacking the microphone on the witness stand in front of her hard to demonstrate the strike’s impact.
Surveillance video presented at trial showed Majors lifting up Jabbari — a dancer and movement coach he’d met in 2021 on the set of Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” — and pushing her several times back inside the black SUV after it pulled over at Centre and Canal streets in Chinatown.
