UPDATE: Disney-Marvel has officially fired Majors. This is a great human tragedy. Majors was already playing the villain Kang in Marvel films. Now the future Avengers movies will be re-written or he will be recast.
Actor Jonathan Majors has been found guilty by a New York jury of assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment.
The rising star had been accused of domestic abuse by his girlfriend last March, a week after the Oscars.
So much rode on this verdict, especially Majors’ career, and the fate of Marvel Disney movies he was attached to. Majors is also the star of a film picked up at Sundance earlier this year called “Magazine Dreams.” Searchlight had to scuttle its release this fall for Oscar consideration.
A six person jury rendered the verdict. Majors was accused by his girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, of freaking out in the back of a car and attacking her after she discovered compromising texts on his phone. The case was brought by the state of New York, not Jabbari.
Majors was found not guilty of one of the counts in assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in second degree. But that won’t matter. The severe damage is done to all parties. Sentencing will be next.
