Jonathan Majors claims new video proves he did NOT assault his girlfriend – and lawyer claims that cops coached her into saying the actor ‘grabbed her by the neck’
- Attorneys for embattled actor Jonathan Majors claimed this week that new surveillance video exonerates their client in his ongoing domestic violence case
- The videos, filed as evidence Wednesday in New York, appears to show the Creed star’s accuser uninjured and out on the town after the alleged assault
- First-responder bodycam footage also shows officers ‘coaching’ the woman, Majors’ now ex girlfriend Grace Jabbari, as she told them of the alleged abuse
Attorneys for embattled actor Jonathan Majors have claimed that new surveillance video exonerates their client in his ongoing domestic violence case.
The videos, filed as evidence Wednesday in New York criminal court, appears to show the Creed star’s accuser uninjured and out on the town after an alleged dust-up on March 25.
At the time, Majors’ now ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari wrote in a criminal complaint that the scuffle left her with a laceration behind her ear, as well as an injured hand.
The allegations saw the 33-year-old Marvel star arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment – charges that Majors’ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, demanded the Big Apple’s District Attorney dismiss Thursday.
Citing footage that shows Jabbari clubbing and socializing in the hours after she said was assaulted, Chaudhry also pointed to first-responder bodycam footage she says shows officers ‘coaching’ the woman through her account of the alleged assault.
Attorneys for embattled actor Jonathan Majors are now claiming that new surveillance video exonerates their client in his ongoing domestic violence case
Majors’ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, demanded the Big Apple’s District Attorney dismiss the assault charges against the actor this week over the newly obtained footage
‘Jonathan Majors is innocent and has not abused anyone,’ Chaudhry wrote in the document, which is dated Tuesday but was not accepted by the court until Wednesday.
‘We have provided irrefutable evidence to the district attorney that the charges are false,’ she added. ‘We are confident that he will be fully exonerated.’
The filing proceeded to present multiple screenshots of the alleged video evidence cited by the attorney, which she said has already been given to the DA’s office for review.
Only stills, several of the images come from security tape recorded Loosie’s Nightclub on the Lower East Side between 1:55 am and 3:06 am on March 25 – shortly after Majors is said to have assaulted Jabbari during a cab ride to his Chelsea apartment.
The grabs appear to show Jabbari at the bar of the establishment using two hands as she sorts through credit cards and casually signs a receipt. Another shows her partying near the crowded nightclub’s hostess stand again using both hands.
Majors, meanwhile, is at the height of his career. Aside from the newly released Creed II actor recently appeared in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantomania. He was also involved in an ambitious new recruitment campaign with the United States Army released in March.
The security stills appear to show the accuser at the bar with two uninjured hands as she sorts through credit cards and signs a receipt.
As news broke of Majors’ alleged wrongdoing, the army temporarily pulled the plug on the campaign, issuing a statement that they were ‘deeply concerned by the allegations,’ and his recent arrest.
The statement continued that while Majors ‘is innocent until proven guilty, prudence dictates that we pull our ads until the investigation into these allegations is complete.’
Chaudhry, meanwhile, is a high-powered criminal trial lawyer who notably defended Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah on charges of wire fraud, which she pled guilty to last February.
She continues to vehemently deny the charges against her client, who maintains his innocence.
[Majors is] ‘completely innocent and is probably the victim of an alteration with a woman he knows,’ she said shortly after the actor’s arrest.
Majors recently appeared in the Rocky sequel Creed III, release last month and currently in theaters
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