Less than two months after he was found guilty of assaulting and harassing his now ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, Jonathan Majors is facing fresh allegations of abuse from two former partners.
The women, Emma Duncan, who alleged physical and emotional abuse, and Maura Hooper, who alleged emotional abuse, allegedly dated Majors between 2013 and 2019.
Duncan says her relationship with the Marvel actor began during his training at the Yale School of Drama in 2015. She said over the course of their four-year relationship, she was frequently threatened with violence. On another occasion, she says she visited Majors in Santa Fe, N.M., where he was filming “Hostiles” opposite Christian Bale. After discovering messages between Majors and another woman on his Apple Watch, she confronted him, and he allegedly threw the watch out a taxi window. At the hotel room, she said Majors “pushed Ms. Duncan into the couch and began to choke her,” as she tried to pack up her belongings, telling her I’m going to kill you.’” She alleges she then “threw her body across the room” and said, “‘I’m going to make sure you can’t have children.’” Duncan told The Times about another alleged incident where he “slammed her body into their mailbox,” resulting in bruising on her back and arms. Duncan claims Majors also threatened to kill himself on more than one occasion
The second accuser, Hooper, alleges that during her relationship with the actor, she fell pregnant and, after he dropped her at an abortion clinic, he refused to drive her home after the procedure.
Majors’attorney Priya Chaudhry called both relationships “toxic” and admitted that Majors “did say hurtful things.”
“These relationships were between young drama students and all began with mutual intensity,” Chaudhry said. “Mr. Majors and Ms. Hooper mutually agreed that they should end the pregnancy. That deeply sad event is still a painful memory for Mr. Majors.”
According to a report from the New York Times, as many as 20 other people alleged that Majors has a “history of volatility.” Interviewees say he regularly confronted female co-workers while on the set of the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Multiple people told the outlet that “women on set warned one another to tread carefully around him.”
Majors’ sentencing hearing in the Jabbari case was delayed to April 8. He is facing up to one year in prison.
Jabbari alleged the actor slapped her and threw her into the car after she exited it, grabbed her hand so hard he fractured her middle finger, and also allegedly struck her face with an open hand. Video surveillance footage was played to the jury and released online, showing Majors shoving her into a vehicle. He then fled the scene as Jabbari chased after him.
In a televised interview with Good Morning America, Majors claimed the only reason he was found guilty was the color of his skin.
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“If you watch those videos and you reverse that and you saw a Black man chasing a young white girl down the street screaming and crying, that man is going to be shot and killed in the streets of New York City,” Majors said of the released surveillance footage showing Jabbari chasing him around the streets of New York.
