Two women have come forward to accuse Jonathan Majors of abuse, two months after the Marvel star was convicted of recklessly assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
The women, Emma Duncan and Maura Hooper spoke to The New York Times and alleged Majors was physically and/or emotionally abusive during their overlapping relationships with the actor. Duncan claims that on multiple occasions, Majors threatened to kill her, and in one alleged incident in 2016 Majors allegedly choked Duncan, and later that year allegedly threw her to the ground during a fight. Majors denied the accusations.
These women’s accounts were first referred to in Rolling Stone’s investigation from June where more than a dozen sources — who are friends with the women or were present during their relationship — independently corroborated details of the alleged abuse. At the time, Duncan and Hooper declined to comment for the original article, with one of the women, through a spokesperson, citing fear of retribution. “It was pervasively known that he was [a good actor], and that he also would terrorize the people that he had dated,” one of the dozen sources told Rolling Stone.
Majors was convicted in December for reckless assault in the third-degree and a harassment violation stemming from his March 2023 arrest where he allegedly attacked Jabbari after she saw him receive a romantic text from another woman. (He was acquitted of the two more serious charges, intentional assault and aggravated harassment.)
The 34-year-old’s sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday but his attorney Priya Chaudhry filed last-minute motions to overturn the verdict, causing sentencing to be pushed back until April 8. Although Majors faces up to a year in jail, it’s unlikely he’ll serve any time behind bars.
New York Times also obtained Molineux evidence — previous history of alleged bad acts related to the case — that contained the women’s testimonies to prosecutors. Chaudhry recently filed a motion to keep the documents permanently under seal. She claimed the “unproven allegations” would cause “significant concrete harm” because “the media has already demonstrated that it has a near-insatiable appetite for salacious gossip concerning Mr. Majors.”
A third woman also came forward to Rolling Stone as part of the investigation but pulled out before publication. Recently speaking with The Cut — who gave her the pseudonym “Anna”— the woman said she was also in an abusive relationship with Majors. Anna claims she backed out of Rolling Stone’s June article because she received a threatening letter allegedly sent by a legal assistant, who claimed she was being investigated by a law firm and was part of an “ongoing criminal investigation.”
The email contained a phone number, which the woman traced back through a Google Search to the law firm of Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ lawyer. “It felt like a threat,” Anna told The Cut. “I pulled back 100 percent from participating in supporting Grace, speaking to the DA, communicating with journalists, all of it.” (Chaudhry denied to The Cut that her firm was behind the mysterious email and said she would file a criminal complaint against the sender.)
Part of the Molineux evidence — some of which was referred to in prosecutors’ filing from October — mentioned a police report regarding a September 2022 incident in London that resulted in Jabbari receiving medical care. In November, London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed to Rolling Stone that there is an ongoing investigation into the incident that included allegations of “physical assaults.”
The women’s claims flies in the face of Majors’ recent ABC News interview, where Majors spoke publicly for the first time about the case and denied that he was ever abusive in any relationship. Majors claimed that although he had witnessed domestic abuse, he’s never participated in it.
“I’ve been smacked at before but never exercised it,” Majors said. “Those relationships went back to when I was 21, 22 years old, and I just think, was I a jerk? Was I a mean guy? Yeah, knowing what I know now, like, oh — severe depression, childhood trauma. I’ve had very few relationships, so I can gather what situations we’re talking about. Yeah, I was not the best boyfriend at the time … but [I] never hit a woman. My hands have never struck a woman, ever.”
Majors’ career had a tremendous free-fall. A year ago, he was garnering early Oscar buzz for playing a lonely bodybuilder with violent fantasies in Magazine Dreams, and had starring roles inCreed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. But in wake of his arrest, his management company and publicist dropped him, all future projects were shelved and Marvel dealt the final blow when the studio announced Majors would not be returning to the role of Kang the Conqueror, which the franchise’s next two films were centered on.
This is a developing story.
