Jonathan Majors To Learn His Fate

Jonathan Majors will soon learn if he is going to jail for up to a year over charges that he assaulted an ex-girlfriend.

The former Marvel actor, 34, tried to have his two misdemeanor charges of domestic violence, including reckless assault and harassment, overturned in a last-minute plea to a New York City court. Majors was found guilty on December 18, 2023 of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari in a series of altercations in March of that year.

Majors will now face sentencing today.

Judge Michael Gaffey denied Priya Chaudry's— Majors' attorney—motion to set aside the conviction of reckless assault in the third degree after she had argued "the court should not have submitted the reckless assault count to the jury without a justification charge," according to the judge's ruling.

"Finally, the trial evidence was legally sufficient to establish Defendant's guilt of harassment in the second degree," Gaffey wrote in his ruling. "Such evidence clearly established that Defendant subjected Ms. Jabbari to physical contact, and the jury reasonably could have inferred his intent from the conduct and surrounding circumstances."

Newsweek has contacted Majors' lawyers by email for comment.

Majors' failed attempt to set aside the verdict and overturn his conviction comes after Jabbari filed a lawsuit of defamation against the actor.

In the federal filing, Jabbari alleged "both verbal and physical abuse" at the hands of the Creed III star including saying he pushed her into a shower door where she hit her head on the wall after the door flung open on impact.

"When Grace tried to escape, things escalated. In an effort to stop the abuse, Grace informed Majors that she was going to have to inform his team of what he had done to her, at which point, Majors began throwing candles and other objects in a frenzied state, denting the wall and leaving glass shattered on the floor," the lawsuit read.

Majors spoke about the incident in a widely criticized ABC interview in January, saying that he "completely lost my temper in that moment and threw it all on the ground. That's not something I would want my child to do, and I did that. I absolutely did that."

The actor has long denied any wrongdoing and threatened to countersue Jabbari.

The former couple met on the set of the Marvel movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where she worked as a movement coach and he was reprising his role as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) new overarching villain, Kang the Conqueror.

He had also appeared in the Disney+ series Loki for two seasons as a character that was set to become Kang, and he was meant to star in at least two more MCU movies, including two Avengers films.

But following his conviction in December, Marvel dropped him from its stable of talent and the actor, who was seen as an up-and-coming A-lister in Hollywood, saw his career fall into tatters.

Disney also canceled the release of the much-hyped and highly anticipated movie Magazine Dreams starring Majors, which was receiving Oscar buzz.