
Jonathan Majors was on top of the worldâuntil he wasnât.Â
Earlier this year, the actor had two back-to-back movies reach No. 1 at the box office with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, in which he played incredibly convincing villains while also garnering the adoration of millions of fans through his performances and his personality during interviews.
All of that came crashing down in late March when it was reported that Majors had been arrested on the charge of physically attacking a woman in a domestic dispute. The authorities took Majors into custody while the woman who called them was brought to the hospital to be treated for visible injuries. The internet was set ablaze when the news broke, but his lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, said there was evidence on her clientâs side. âJonathan Majors is completely innocent,â the criminal defense lawyer stated.
In text messages Majorsâs team released to TMZ, the woman, who she was reportedly dating at the time, told him she was âat fault,â because she had reached for his phone and said she asked the authorities not to press charges against him.
While some people expressed concern about the womanâs safety and well-being, others wondered what this means for the rising starâs career. While that is the least concerning aspect of the ordeal, Marvelâs future hinges on Majorsâ role as Kang the Conqueror. Now with his involvement up in the air and complete silence from Disney and Marvel, there is no telling what will happen next. His film Magazine Dreams is also slated for a December release.Â
Itâs been nearly a month since the incident and there have been no recent updates regarding the case. As we await the actorâs response or any new information from his attorney or the authorities, here is everything that has gone down since Majorsâ arrest and what we know so far.
Jonathan Majors gets into an alleged altercation with a woman

Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City this weekend, but the actor insists he's done nothing wrong.
Date: March 25, 2023
Majors was arrested the same day in New York. The NYPD later released a statement about Majorsâ arrest. âThe victim informed police she was assaulted,â a spokesperson for the NYPD said in a statement to the Associated Press. âOfficers placed the 33-year-old male into custody without incident. The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.â
Jonathan Majors leaves NYC courthouse in hat saying FREEDOM after being charged with strangulation
Majors was spotted leaving a New York City court with a baseball hat with the words âFreedom Freedom.âÂ
Actor Jonathan Majors has been arraigned on several assault and harassment charges, the Manhattan DA's office tells CNN.
Date: March 26, 2023
Majors was arraigned on multiple charges, according to Variety. He was charged with several counts of assault in the third degree, three counts of attempted assault in the third degree, one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree, and one count of harassment in the second degree.
"The DAâs office says a judge released Majors on his own recognizance and granted a limited order of protection,â the outlet reported. This decision came after more details emerged in the womanâs complaint: It said that the actor â[struck] her about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear,â and that he âput his hand on her neck, causing bruising and substantial pain.â
Majorsâ lawyer shares a statement

The U.S. Army pauses Majorsâ campaign

UPDATE: Majorâs lawyer confirmed that the woman in question has recanted her statement about being physically assaulted.
Date: March 26, 2023
Majorsâ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, told the Los Angeles Times that the woman had retracted her initial statements about being physically assaulted by Majors. The attorney said her team had received âtwo written statements from the woman recanting these allegations.â Chaudhry had also said that there was video evidence that proves her clientâs innocence. The actorâs attorney said the woman was having âan emotional crisis, for which she was taken to a hospital yesterday.â The Times report did not include the statements or footage in question.
Jonathan Majors charged with assault, harassment by New York district attorney
Date: March 27, 2023
Following his arrest, the actor was charged with multiple misdemeanor counts of assault and harassment two days after he was arrested in NYC. Majors was charged with three counts of assault in the third degree, aggravated harassment in the second degree, three counts of attempted assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree, Variety reported.Â
According to documents obtained by People from the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Majors hit the woman âabout the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear.â He also reportedly caused âbruising and substantial painâ by grabbing her hand and neck.
Jonathan Majors text messages.
Date: March 30, 2023
Days after Majorsâ arrest, his lawyer released screenshots to TMZ of a text message conversation that reportedly took place between her client and the woman following the incident the weekend prior. In the texts, the woman he is accused of assaulting appears to take the blame for the fight and said the authorities didnât have her âblessingâ to press charges. "They assured me that you wouldn't be charged," the screenshot shows her writing. "They said they had to arrest you as protocol when they saw the injuries on me and they knew we had a fight.â
She continued to explain how she was at âfaultâ for attempting to take his cell phone and said she reiterated that to the authorities, as well as saying Majors placed the 911 out of concern for her health after she passed out. âI read the paper they gave me about strangulation, and I said point-blank this did not occur and should be removed immediately,â the text states. âThe judge is definitely going to be told this.â
Jonathan Majors reportedly parts ways with his management firm and PR team
Date: April 17, 2023
Public relations firm, The Lede Company, has parted ways with Majors amid his multiple misdemeanor counts of assault and harassment. The firm decided to âstep awayâ from the Creed III star last month, according to Deadline. Majorsâ management company Entertainment 360 has also stopped working with the actor.Â
Date: April 19, 2023
After the departure of The Lede Company and Entertainment 360, Deadline reports that Majors was dropped from a handful of projects, including a film adaptation of Walter Moselyâs The Man in My Basement, a Major League Baseball ad campaign for the Texas Rangers, and an Otis Redding biopic (approved by his estate).
Date: April 27, 2023
The victim who initially brought allegations against Majors is granted a full temporary order of projection, the legal term for a restraining order. This version will last until the full court hearing, upon which a judge could extend it again.
Date: May 09, 2023
In a statement provided to Complex, Majorsâ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, said, âWe have provided the District Attorney with irrefutable evidence that the woman is lying, including video proof showing nothing happened, especially not where she claimed. We did this with the explicit promise from the DA that they would not âfixâ their case and change it as we proved the woman is lying.â Chaudhry went on to add that the allegations are a âfalse caseâ and a âwitch hunt.â
Date: June 20, 2023
Majors appeared at Manhattan court in late June (alongside new girlfriend Meagan Good) for a hearing around the case wherein he acknowledged heâd need to return on August 3 for the start of his trial.
During the appearance, Chaudhry stated her team submitted âadditional evidenceâ in support of Majors to the District Attorney in hopes that the DA would âdismiss all charges against Mr. Majors immediately.â
Date: June 27, 2023
Majors filed a counter-claim against the victim, stating he was a victim of domestic violence. The suit alleges that ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari scratched and hit him during the argument that eventually led to the March 25 arrest of Majors. During that arrest, Majors also claimed that Jabbari attacked him previously, but he never filed any police reports.
Date: June 29, 2023
The NYPD declared they had âprobable causeâ to arrest Jabbari. Insiders told The New York Times, who broke the story, that the evidence was compelling enough that police issued documentation to take Jabbari into custody on alleged third-degree assault.
On the heels of this news came an investigative report from Rolling Stone documenting behavior of âextreme abuseâ over nearly a decade. Throughout a staggering 40 interviews, the story alleges that Majors had a pattern of emotional, mental, and physical abuse. Many of the interviews were conducted anonymouslyâwith one source stating they couldnât talk about their experience because Majors forced them to sign a non-disclosure agreement about their time together.
The story contained corroboration from Majorsâ fellow students at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama that the actor was physically abusive to one partner, emotionally abusive to another, and âwould terrorize the people that he had dated.â
Majorsâ attorney, Dustin A. Pusch, denied the Rolling Stone report in a statement.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.