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Majors, who recently presented an award at the
Oscars alongside his "Creed III" co-star Michael B. Jordan, was
arrested on Saturday morning in Manhattan following a domestic
dispute, according to police and his defense lawyer.
A 30-year-old woman suffered minor injuries to her head and neck
and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the New York
Police Department said. Majors, 33, appeared in court for an
arraignment later on Saturday and was released without bail.
He was charged in a criminal complaint of striking the woman's
face with his open hand, causing a laceration behind her ear,
and of grabbing her hand and neck, causing bruising.
Priya Chaudhry, Majors' defense lawyer, said in a statement that
Majors was innocent and that he was "provably the victim of an
altercation with a woman he knows."
She said that the episode occurred in a vehicle, and that the
driver who witnessed it would help exonerate Majors. She also
said that the woman, who has not been publicly named, had
provided two written statements "recanting these allegations."
The U.S. Army said it was temporarily pulling new campaign
advertisements featuring Majors.
"While Mr. Majors is innocent until proven guilty, prudence
dictates that we pull our ads until the investigation into these
allegations is complete," Laura DeFrancisco, a spokesperson for
the Army Enterprise Marketing Office, said in a statement.
Majors rose to fame in the 2019 film "The Last Black Man in San
Francisco" and appeared in Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp:
Quantumania," released this year.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
(Photo: Actor Jonathan Majors appears in a recent U.S. Army "Be
All You Can Be" recruitment advertisement in a still image from
video. U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS.)
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