Did Jonathan Majors Legal Troubles Just Go International?

As Jonathan Majors prepares to go back to court for yet another pre-trial hearing for his domestic dispute case on Wednesday—hopefully the last one before a New York judge decides to take the case to trial or not—his legal issues may have just gotten a bit more international. I’ll explain.

According to a new 115 page filing by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, obtained by Variety, prosecutors in the case are trying to secure a police report from Sep. 2022 in London, England. While the specifics of the report are unknown, the prosecutorial team allege that it’s relevant to their case as it “references medical care obtained by [Grace] Jabbari [the woman accusing Majors] at that time.” For context, Jabari is a English citizen who worked as a as a movement coach for Ant-man and the Wasp, and Majors was reportedly in London filming season two of the popular Disney+ series Loki at the time of the police report’s creation. This filing comes as a response to Majors’ legal team’s motion to dismiss the case in it’s entirety.

The filing also alleges that Majors’ legal team ‘leaked and misrepresented court evidence, as well as attempted to have police create a wanted poster with Jabbari’s photo.” The D.A. also ruled out charging Jabbari for domestic violence in accordance with Major’s counter-claim against her where he alleged she was the aggressor and not him.

The filing also provides more details into the night in question back in March, when the Magazine Dreams star was taken into custody and later released on charges of assault and harassment stemming his allege abuse of his accuser.

Variety has more:

On March 25, he and Jabbari were taking a private car service from a Brooklyn party to their Chelsea apartment, according to the filing. Jabbari, who worked as a movement coach alongside Majors on Disney’s Marvel tentpole “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” saw a text message on Majors’ phone that read, “Wish I was kissing you right now.”

She allegedly took the phone out of his hands to see who sent the message. Majors then “began grabbing the right side of Ms. Jabbari’s body and prying Ms. Jabbari’s right middle finger off the phone, causing bruising, swelling, and substantial pain.” The filing continues that Majors “then grabbed Ms. Jabbari’s arm and right hand and proceeded to twist Ms. Jabbari’s forearm, causing substantial pain to her finger and arm. The defendant then struck Ms. Jabbari’s right ear, causing a laceration to the back of her ear and substantial pain.”

After he retrieved his phone, Majors exited the vehicle and Jabbari attempted to follow the actor. That’s when “the defendant grabbed her, picked her up, and threw her back inside … [and] sustained substantial pain, including a fractured finger, bruising about her body, a laceration behind her right ear, and a bump on her head,” according to the filing.

Amid the delays and several pre-trial hearings, Majors’ lawyer have maintained his innocence, saying in a previous statement last month: “For an excruciating four months, Jonathan Majors, the real victim in this shameful ordeal, has had his life, career, and reputation torn apart. Yet he remains unwavering in his determination to be absolved from this harrowing ordeal.”

Additionally and as previously reported by The Root, the Marvel star filed a cross-complaint against Jabbari, and reports later surfaced that the NYPD had enough evidence to arrest her, but opted not to for undisclosed reasons.

In the aftermath of that those developments, a bombshell report was subsequently published by Rolling Stone, which alleged Majors had a pattern of abuse that were present in his past romantic relationships, on film and television sets and during his time at Yale School of Drama. The Devotion star’s lawyer vehemently denied any all allegations present in that report.

Unfortunately, the case has been mired with conflicting accounts of the night in question and a dizzying amount of details that have proved exhausting for the public (and the press for that matter) trying to keep up at each turn.

While Majors and his team await his trial (or not), his career has suffered in the interim. In the months following the accusation, he’s been dropped from several high-profile projects, his PR company and former management company. However, he’s still set to serve as Marvel Studios “big bad” a.k.a. Kang the Conqueror as the company has made no official announcements on whether or not they will replace him.