In the last five years, Jonathan Majors has been one of the most promising actors in Hollywood, with “Creed III” and Marvel films weighing on his back and a perennial place on the A-list ahead.
Then Majors and his ex-girlfriend accused each other of assault, and he found his world dominated by courtroom drama.
Majors has denied the allegations, and the district attorney declared that the allegations against his ex-girlfriend lack “prosecutorial merit.”
The allegations between Majors, 34, and his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, 30, have played out in public, leading to a pause in his rapid rise to superstardom and drawing questions about his character at a time when American institutions say they are trying to take allegations of abuse more seriously.
The case pits his future — he faces the possibility of a year behind bars if convicted, but Hollywood’s sentence could be longer — against a backdrop of “believe women,” the movement that seeks to take allegations of sexual and domestic abuse, mostly against men, at face value.
Jabbari, a British choreographer and dancer, is in the midst of a fight that could resonate even wider by providing another successful case in the war against abuse, or by providing fodder for those who seek to discredit “believe women.”
Majors was arrested March 25 in New York City on allegations he choked, assaulted and harassed her, the New York City Police Department said at the time.
Subsequent charges stemmed from the alleged incident early that morning. Majors pleaded not guilty to all counts and accused Jabbari of attacking him.
Following that dispute in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, she was taken to a hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” police said.
The altercation started in a town car, prosecutors said. Jabbari grabbed Majors’ phone after seeing a text she believed was from another woman, they said….
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