Heading toward a May 8 hearing in New York on domestic abuse charges, Jonathan Majors’ lawyer again is insisting that the Creed III actor is not guilty of any allegations of violence.
“Jonathan Majors is innocent and has not abused anyone,” attorney Priya Chaudhry declared late Wednesday as rumors of more potential incidents swirled around her client and Majors continues to be axed by representatives and from projects “We have provided irrefutable evidence to the District Attorney that the charges are false. We are confident that he will be fully exonerated.”
When contacted by Deadline, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had “no comment” today on Chaudhry’s assertion or whether other women had come forward to claim abuse by Majors.
The Magazine Dreams star is facing domestic violence allegations in NYC after a March 25 incident involving a dispute with a 30-year-old woman. The unnamed victim was taken to a hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” according to authorities at the time.
Not long afterward, the lawyer for Majors, who was hauled in front of a judge and released early in the morning of March 26, claimed that the woman now is saying it was her fault and that the actor was actually the one who called 911. The latter has been verified with law enforcement. However, a thread of texts that were made public in the following days where the alleged victim blamed herself for the incident have not been authenticated by authorities.
Three weeks after Majors’ arrest, his manager Entertainment 360 and publicist The Lede Company fired him, as Deadline exclusively reported on April 17, despite his banner early 2023 success with two movies, Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, earning over $745M WW. Being on the other side of bad headlines saw Major dropped from the feature adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel The Man in My Basement, a Texas Rangers MLB ad campaign and an unannounced Otis Redding biopic from Fifth Season.
Majors remains with the MCU cast as Kang the Conqueror, the main villain in future phases, a character that appears in Disney+’s Loki season 2, and is slotted to star in 2025’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and 2026’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
The actor continues to be repped by WME.