Update, December 19th, 9:00 a.m. ET: Marvel has officially parted ways with Jonathan Majors. The 34-year-old actor who played Kang the Conqueror, a supervillain, in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been dropped from the MCU after being found guilty of misdemeanor reckless assault in the third degree and harassment in his domestic assault trial. He was found not guilty on two other charges.
Angela Shaw, a spokeswoman for Marvel, confirmed to the New York Times that the studio would no longer feature Majors in its projects. Marvel was reportedly building “several films” around Majors’s character, Kang, with Majors set to lead Avengers: The Kang Dynasty in 2026. Per Shaw, screenwriter Michael Waldron has been hired to write a new script for the film.
Majors’ defense attorney, Priya Chaudhry, released the following statement after the verdict: “It is clear that the jury did not believe Grace Jabbari’s story of what happened in the SUV because they found that Mr. Majors did not intentionally cause any injuries to her. We are grateful for that. We are disappointed, however, that despite not believing Ms. Jabbari, the jury nevertheless found that Mr. Majors was somehow reckless while she was attacking him. Mr. Majors is grateful to God, his family, his friends, and his fans for their love and support during these harrowing eight months. Mr. Majors still has faith in the process and looks forward to fully clearing his name.”
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Jonathan Majors, the 34-year-old actor and star of Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, has been found guilty on two charges—and not guilty on two others—in his domestic assault trial. Jurors reached their verdict on Monday, following about four hours of deliberation that took place over the course of three days, The Hollywood Reporter writes. Majors had pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment stemming from an alleged domestic dispute with ex Grace Jabbari in March.
The jury convicted the actor on charges of reckless assault in the third degree and harassment, but found him not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree. The harassment charge is the most minor offense; the other three are misdemeanors. Majors faces up to a year in jail; he will be sentenced on February 6.
Majors was arrested on March 25 after Jabbari, who was his girlfriend at the time, was treated at a hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” the NYPD said in a statement. Prosecutors say Jabbari was riding in the back of a vehicle with Majors when she grabbed his phone from him after seeing a text message that said, “Wish I was kissing you right now,” sent by a woman listed in the actor’s phone as “Cleopatra.”
In June, Majors filed a counter domestic incident report against his accuser as the case progressed to trial. As first reported by Insider in June, he alleged to police that she was “drunk and hysterical” the night of the incident and caused pain and bleeding after scratching and slapping him. The NYPD arrested Jabbari, but the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the case because it lacked “prosecutorial merit,” the office said in a statement in October.
