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Fallout from a New York jury’s conviction of Jonathan Majors for misdemeanor reckless assault and harassment emerged in a lawsuit against the actor by his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, who claims she alerted Majors’ management team about the abuse. in 2021.
Jabbari, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, brings claims for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious prosecution and defamation, arising from Majors denying that he abused the professional dancer and movement coach before and after his conviction. He accuses Majors of subjecting her to a “pattern of widespread domestic abuse that began in 2021 and extended through 2023,” detailing several instances of alleged abuse.
Jabbari, who met Majors in 2021 on the set of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniaclaims the alleged abuse escalated to physical violence in 2022 when Majors “attacked” her, “causing serious injuries to her body.”
According to the lawsuit, on September 20, 2022, after an earlier primarily verbal fight, Majors “pushed Grace so hard that he hurt her butt,” “lifted Grace into the air and threw her against the hood of his car.” ” and “He took Grace back to his house and put his hands around her neck, telling her that he wanted to kill her and that he was going to kill her. “Majors then began slamming Grace’s head against the marble floor while he strangled her until he felt like she could no longer breathe.”
Jabbari says she later wanted to seek medical treatment for this incident, but alleges she was dissuaded by Majors, who told her via text: “They’ll ask you questions and since I don’t think you’ll really protect us, it could lead to a fight.” investigation even if you lie and they suspect something.”
His texts about the alleged incident also emerged as part of Majors’ criminal trial (although no earlier alleged incident was discussed). Jurors were instructed to consider this and other previous cases of alleged abuse as background information, rather than evidence of a propensity to commit a crime. While Jabbari alluded to many of the incidents in the civil lawsuit as part of the criminal trial, he was largely only able to speak to the alleged emotional abuse surrounding them, rather than any allegations of physical violence.
In the new lawsuit, Jabbari also echoes comments made during the criminal trial about Majors’ behavior after the alleged incidents. “The elders would threaten suicide in response to Grace’s attempts to understand why the elders became physically violent towards her afterward and to manipulate Grace into not going to the hospital or reporting the violence to the authorities,” the statement reads. demand.
Jabbari also alleges that the actor is now tarnishing his reputation, including in his interview with Good morning america after the sentence.
“Now that Majors can no longer physically abuse Grace, he has resorted to publicly abusing her reputation. Following his arrest, Majors immediately implemented an extensive media campaign smearing Grace, claiming that he was “completely innocent,” “is demonstrably the victim,” that “he did not assault her at all,” and that “this woman was going through an emotional crisis.” ”. her, so she was taken to a hospital,” the lawsuit reads.
The lawsuit follows the criminal case against Majors, in which he was convicted in December of third-degree reckless assault, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harassment, which is rape. These charges were brought by the state of New York, not by Jabbari.
That case was related to an incident that occurred on March 25, 2023 between Majors and Jabbari, when she was still dating the actor. During the trial, Jabbari testified that while the two were riding in a car, she saw a text message on her phone suggesting he was cheating on her and took it away from her. She said the actor then hurt her, including taking his finger off her phone and hitting her head while he was trying to take her phone from her, and then threw her back into the car.
Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ attorney in that case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new lawsuit.
Majors was scheduled to be sentenced in the criminal case on Feb. 6, but sentencing was delayed until April 8 when prosecutors and the judge in the case responded to the defense’s motion to vacate the verdict. The charges carry a possible sentence of up to one year in prison.
While awaiting sentencing, Creed III and Marvel was seen on Saturday at the NAACP Awards with his current partner, actress Meagan Good.
More to come.