On Saturday, March 25, “Creed III” actor Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York Metropolis after an alleged home dispute. A spokesperson for the New York Police Division advised The Hollywood Reporter that the actor was arrested on fees of strangulation, assault, and harassment. Majors is denying all wrongdoing.
The police responded to a domestic-dispute name at an residence within the Chelsea neighborhood, the place a 33-year-old male, confirmed to be Majors, was allegedly concerned in a dispute with an unidentified 30-year-old girl. “The sufferer knowledgeable police she was assaulted. Officers positioned the 33-year-old male into custody with out incident,” the spokesperson advised THR. The girl was taken to the hospital with minor accidents to her head and neck. Majors has since been launched from custody.
On Sunday, the actor’s legal protection lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, issued an announcement to POPSUGAR sustaining Majors’s innocence. “Jonathan Majors is totally harmless and is provably the sufferer of an altercation with a girl he is aware of. We’re rapidly gathering and presenting proof to the District Lawyer with the expectation that every one fees will probably be dropped imminently,” she stated.
Chaudhry detailed the alleged proof, which is claimed to incorporate video footage from the location of the reported incident, testimony from eyewitnesses, and two written statements from the lady recanting the allegations. The assertion additionally alleges that the lady was having a psychological well being disaster on the time of the incident. “All of the proof proves that Mr. Majors is completely harmless and didn’t assault her in any respect,” the assertion continued.
Majors’s lawyer additionally stated she believed the costs could be dropped quickly and maintained that arrests should be made in circumstances of this nature. “That is the one motive Mr. Majors was arrested,” she stated.
The “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” actor is at a busy second in his profession. He is set to star as Kang in Marvel’s 2025 movie “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and is rumored to look in “Loki” season two. POPSUGAR reached out to Marvel for touch upon Majors’s arrest however didn’t recieve an instantaneous response.
Within the wake of his arrest, the US Military introduced it had pulled a “Be All You Can Be” advert marketing campaign that includes the actor for now. “The U.S. Military is conscious of the arrest of Jonathan Majors and we’re deeply involved by the allegations surrounding his arrest,” Laura DeFrancisco, public affairs chief for the Military Enterprise Advertising and marketing Workplace, stated in an announcement to THR. “Whereas Mr. Majors is harmless till confirmed responsible, prudence dictates that we pull our adverts till the investigation into these allegations is full.”