Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney corporation haveended their relationships with actor Jonathan Majors shortly after he was convicted of assaulting and harassing Grace Jabbari.
Majors’ promising career has been on a rapid descent since the 34-year-old was arrested on 26 March after getting into a heated conflict with Jabbari.
He was convicted on Monday on two of the four offenses that New York prosecutors charged him with: third degree assault and second degree aggravated assault.
During the two-week trial, a Manhattan jury heard four days’ worth of testimony from Jabbari, who said that things between her and Major turned physical after she noticed romantic texts on Majors’ phone.
When Jabbari grabbed the device from his hands, Majors twisted her arm in a position that caused her “excruciating pain” and struck her in the head, Jabbari told jurors.
Majors then took the phone back, got out of the vehicle and took off running through the streets of lower Manhattan as Jabbari chased behind him, street surveillance footage.
The former couple met in 2021 on the set of Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which was released a month before Major’s arrest.
Jabbari was working as a movement coach and Majors was playing the time-travelling villain He Who Remains, AKA Kang the Conqueror.
The film was meant to be the jump-off point for a new cinematic era for the studio and lead to more projects between the actor and Marvel.
The feature is still in the script phase and had not begun filming, said a report from the Hollywood Reporter. No director is currently attached.