Marvel star arrested for assault
Jonathan Majors has been arrested for assault in New York after allegedly choking his girlfriend.
The Ant-Man star is “completely innocent” and is the victim of the domestic dispute his lawyer claimed.
“We are quickly gathering and presenting evidence to the district attorney with the expectation that all charges will be dropped imminently,” Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ criminal defence lawyer, said in a statement, The New York Post reported.
“This evidence includes video footage from the vehicle where this episode took place, witness testimony from the driver and others who both saw and heard the episode, and most importantly, two written statements from the woman recanting these allegations,” his lawyer’s statement continued, adding that Majors’ girlfriend had been recently hospitalised for an “emotional crisis”.
Majors, 33, had featured in a series of recruitment ads for the US Army which have since been scrapped after the news of his arrest.
“The US Army is aware of the arrest of Jonathan Majors and we are deeply concerned by the allegations surrounding his arrest. We recently released two ads in which Mr. Majors appears. While Mr. Majors is innocent until proven guilty, prudence dictates that we pull our ads until the investigation into these allegations is complete.”
Police arrested Majors on Saturday, 25 March in a Manhattan apartment after officers responded to an emergency call.
The police determined the 33-year-old had been in a domestic dispute with an unnamed 30-year-old woman who sources claimed was his girlfriend.
The woman, who told authorities she had been assaulted suffered minor injuries to her head and neck.
Police took the girlfriend to hospital and arrested Majors.
The Marvel star was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court later that day on six counts of third-degree assault, three counts of third-degree attempted assault and two counts of harassment.
Majors was released by a judge and was told he must return to court on May 8.
Sources told TMZ that the actor got into an argument with his girlfriend in a taxi on the way home from a bar in Brooklyn when she confronted him about another woman texting him.
He became upset, then allegedly grabbed her hand and slapped her, according to TMZ.
The woman claims Majors also put his hands around her neck, and they had spent the night apart before she notified police in the morning, TMZ said.
Majors was set to appear in various Marvel projects over the next few years as the main villain, Kang the Conqueror, with a notable release already under his belt, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where he co-starred with actor, Paul Rudd.
He had also wrapped up filming for the second season of Marvel’s Loki.
Majors is not new to the screen, previously appearing in Creed III and HBO series Lovecraft Country, Spike Lee movie Da 5 Bloods, and the acclaimed film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
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