The sentencing of Jonathan Majors, who was convicted of assault in late 2023, was delayed after his defense team filed a new motion.
Judge Michael Gaffey set a new sentencing date of April 8. Majors faces up to a year in jail but also could be sentenced to probation.
During the two-week domestic assault trial, Majors was found guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, during a domestic dispute that occurred last March.
Majors’ career fallout was swift following the guilty verdict. He was fired from Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which he played the villainous Kang the Conqueror and was expected to appear in upcoming installments, including 2026’s “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.” He was dropped after his arrest in March by his manager, Entertainment 360, and his publicity firm, the Lede Company. He remains repped by talent agency WME.
Majors met Jabbari in 2021 on the set of Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” in which he starred alongside Paul Rudd and she worked as a movement coordinator. The actor was arrested on March 25, 2023 after he assaulted Jabbari in the backseat of a private vehicle. During the trial, Jabbari testified that she grabbed her then-boyfriend’s phone after seeing a text message from another woman. She told jurors that Majors forcefully retrieved his phone from her, resulting in injuries to her head and finger.
Majors denied that he assaulted Jabbari. He did not testify during the trial, but his defense team alleged that Jabbari was the aggressor in the vehicle that night. According to his defense attorney Priya Chaudhry, Majors still “has faith in the process and looks forward to fully clearing his name.”
Majors spoke out for the first time during a “Good Morning America” interview, in which he denied any wrongdoing and said that he only regrets not breaking up with Jabbari sooner.
“I shouldn’t have been in the car. I shouldn’t have been in the relationship,” Majors told ABC News anchor Linsey Davis in January. “If I’m not in the car, none of this is happening. If I leave the relationship, none of this is happening. If I’m man enough or brave enough to say, ‘I want to see someone else’ or ‘I’m done now,’ I’m not in that car. We’re not here. I’m responsible for those things.”
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