In the matter of the besieged Jonathan Majors, I decided between late March and late April that the actor was in serious career trouble and probably toast. On 3.25 Majors was arrested in Manhattan on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment of longtime girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
I noted that two statements seemed to mitigate — one by Majors’ attorney Priya Chaudhry that claimed Majors is “innocent and has not abused anyone,” and that “irrefutable evidence [shows] that the charges are false”, and another by the 30-year-old Jabbari that the incident had been overblown and that she didn’t mean to create all this trouble.
But then Majors was dropped as a client by both his management company, Entertainment 360, and the public relations firm, the Lede Company. And then on 4.19 Variety‘s Tatiana Siegel reported that “sources” are saying Majors “is now a suspect in multiple cases of assault and abuse” and that “several alleged victims have reportedly come forward and are cooperating with the D.A.’s office.”
Figuring he was probably done for, I didn’t even pay attention to a 6.29 N.Y. Times story, reported by Jonah E. Bromwich and Chelsia Rose Marcius, stating that the N.Y.P.D. has evidence to arrest Jabbari.
Chaudhry is saying that the charges are “a complete lie“, and that in fact “it was Ms. Jabbari who assaulted her client.” [Chaudhry] has also said that Ms. Jabbari, a dancer who had worked as a movement coach on one of Mr. Majors’s movies, stole personal belongings from his home. Chaudhry is stating that Jabbari “physically confronted Majors, hitting and scratching him, and that she went out clubbing and later passed out in a closet at his home, waking up with injuries to her finger and ear.”
Excerpt: “Late last week, the police issued what is known as an I-card for Ms. Jabbari. The I-card, which appears in a department database, is different from an arrest warrant, which is typically signed by a judge, but alerts officers that there is probable cause to arrest Ms. Jabbari.”
World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy brought the 6.29 Times story to my attention. I apologize for having blown it off.
