Marvel star Jonathan Majors’s sentencing has been delayed following a last minute motion filed by his defense team.
The actor, 34, was due to learn his fate in a court hearing in New York on Tuesday, nearly two months after being convicted of misdemeanor assault and harassment charges in relation to an altercation involving ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari last year.
Instead Judge Michael Gaffey pushed the sentencing to April 8 after granting the defense’s motion to set aside the guilty verdict.
Majors, who lives out of state, was allowed to appear virtually at New York Criminal Court for the brief session.
He could be seen mouthing ‘whoa’ as he first joined the call and waved to his attorneys who were present in court.
He was asked if he could see and hear everyone in the courtroom before the judge set the new sentencing date.
Jonathan Majors is pictured with new girlfriend Meagan Good arriving at the Manhattan courthouse ahead of the verdict on December 18
Majors’s ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari pictured arriving in court in December. Jurors were tasked with examining conflicting narratives about whether Majors was the aggressor or the victim during the chaotic SUV struggle with Jabbari in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on March 25.
Majors was advised he still has to abide by all the mandates previously set by the court.
The Creed III star, who played the evil Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel universe, was convicted of assault and harassment by jurors in December after seven hours of deliberations, following a two week trial.
He was cleared of a second count of assault and aggravated harassment.
Within hours of the conviction he was dropped by Marvel even though the franchise was lining up Kang as the center of the superhero franchise for its next chapter.
Majors’s self-directed film ‘Magazine Dreams’ which is about a troubled bodybuilder has been put on hold despite being tipped for an Oscar.
During the two-week trial the court heard that Jabbari, 30, a British-born choreographer and dancer, got into a fight with Majors on March 25th last year.
They were driving back to their home in New York after a night out in Brooklyn when she saw a text from another woman called Cleopatra which read: ‘Wish I was kissing you’
Jabbari testified that she saw on the phone that Majors had sent Cleopatra a D’Angelo song called ‘Lady’.
Majors began to act like he’d been ‘caught out’ and refused to show him her phone, so she grabbed it.
Jabbari said Majors began ‘peeling’ her fingers off the phone and was ‘twisting my arm, my hand’.
She felt ‘excruciating’ pain and a ‘really hard blow across my head’.
Majors was accused of grabbing Jabbari (pictured together in 2022) and twisting her arm on the way home from a night out after she spotted a flirty text from another woman on his phone in March 2023. He denies the allegations
Evidence shown to court showed Jabbari’s swollen finger and marks to her neck
Pictured: A cut behind Jabbari’s ear. While the charges against Majors are only misdemeanors, the stakes for him could not be higher – and he is fighting for his reputation and his career
When the SUV stopped she ran out and he followed, leading her across the street before running off – with Jabbari in pursuit.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of them running through the streets of Manhattan after which Jabbari went out drinking with some strangers and then returned to Majors’ apartment where she collapsed in his closet while he spent the night at a hotel.
Majors returned the next day and called the police, who arrested him.
Prosecutors claimed the incident was the culmination of two years of ‘control domination, manipulation, and abuse’ by Majors, who they painted as an abusive boyfriend.
In her emotional testimony, which lasted four days, Jabbari repeatedly broke down in tears as she described how Majors ‘exploded’ in a rage multiple times.
In September that year Majors got into a vicious row with Jabbari while they were in London while he was filming the TV series Loki.
She told the court: ‘He tore my headphones out of my ear and was stamping on them. He started shouting really loudly, better not be in the house when I get home. Really loudly, shouting in my face. Then he turned around and left’.
Jabbari recorded a portion of Majors ranting at her in which he said ‘how dare you’ and ordered her to be more like Coretta Scott King, the widow of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and Michelle Obama.
Majors said: ‘I am a great man. a great man. I am doing great things not just for me but for my culture…for the world’.
After their fights Majors would threaten to commit suicide and would say that he had ‘put actions in place to do so’, Jabbari told the jury.
She said: ‘I said please don’t say this, I’m going to have to call for help. I said I loved him so much. What do you mean you put this into motion?
Majors did not testify and his defense called three witnesses including NYPD detective Ronnie Mejia, who was the officer in the case of Majors’s cross-complaint against Jabbari, which he filed in June.
Majors had been set to spearhead the next chapter of the Marvel universe as ‘Kang the Conqueror’, however he was dropped by Marvel following his arrest
Majors playing Dame Anderson in the 2023 film Creed III. The actor was dropped by Marvel following the guilty verdict in December
That led to her being arrested in October but the Manhattan District Attorney’s office declined to pursue the case.
Speaking to ABC News in January, Majors said that he believes he will work in Hollywood again.
He said that when the conviction came down, he thought to himself: ‘How is this possible?’
Asked how Jabbari got her injuries, he said: ‘I wish to god I knew. That would give clarity. That would give me some type of peace about it’.
Majors paid tribute to his girlfriend Meagan Good, an actress, who was with him every day during the trial and likened her to Coretta Scott King.
That drew a sharp rebuke from King’s daughter Bernie who said her mother was not a ‘prop’.
Bernie King said: ‘She was a peace advocate before she met my father and was instrumental in him speaking out against the Vietnam War. Please understand…my mama was a force’.
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