Jonathan Majors will spend zero time behind bars after being convicted in his domestic assault trial last December. Instead, he has been sentenced to one year of domestic violence counseling, according to Variety. The actor, best known for Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, was found guilty on two charges—reckless assault in the third degree and one count of harassment against his ex-partner Grace Jabbari. He was acquitted on two other counts of intentional assault and aggravated harassment.
“He is not sorry and has not accepted responsibility. He will do this again. He will hurt another woman. This is a man who believes he’s above the law,” Jabbari reportedly said in court on Monday via her victim impact statement. “I had a career and life and body, all of which he’s damaged.” Majors appeared in person alongside his girlfriend, Meagan Good. Last week, Judge Michael Gaffey denied the defense motion to overturn his convictions, opting to proceed toward sentencing.
Majors faced up to a year in jail after his conviction, which left him feeling “absolutely shocked and afraid,” as the actor told ABC News in his first post-trial interview in January.
While breaking his silence on the verdict, Majors maintained his innocence regarding the misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment originating from an alleged domestic altercation with Jabbari last March. Majors, who did not testify at the trial, was arrested March 25 after his then girlfriend was transported to a New York–area hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” the NYPD said in a statement at the time. Prosecutors said Jabbari was riding in the back of a vehicle with Majors when she grabbed his phone away after seeing a text message that said, “Wish I was kissing you right now,” sent by a woman listed in the actor’s phone as “Cleopatra.”
During her testimony, Jabbari emotionally detailed Majors’s “violent temper” throughout their two-year relationship. In a September 2022 text exchange shared with jurors, Majors appeared to threaten suicide if Jabbari sought medical treatment for her injured head. “I was reckless with her heart, not with her body,” Majors told ABC News, later adding, “My hands have never struck a woman, ever,” and telling the outlet that he plans to appeal the conviction. In response to Majors’s interview, an attorney for Jabbari, Brittany Henderson, said in a statement to ABC News that “the timing of these new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for the actions for which he was found guilty and should make the sentencing decisions fairly easy for the court.”
In the trial’s aftermath, Marvel cut ties with Majors, scrapping its reported plans to center multiple films around the actor’s franchise character, Kang. Prior to that, Majors’s public relations firm parted ways with him, and he was dropped by his longtime management company due to “issues surrounding the actor’s personal behavior,” according to Deadline (he remains a client of management agency WME). A week after Majors broke his silence on the verdict, Searchlight Pictures, the once-distributor of his film Magazine Dreams, which debuted at Sundance to acclaim, returned the movie’s rights to the filmmakers, per The Hollywood Reporter. The project remains undated.
In January before his sentencing, Majors was spotted by TMZ in West Hollywood, where he told the camera, “God is good.”
