Jonathan Majors dropped by Marvel and Disney after he’s found guilty of assault

Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Corporation dropped actor Jonathan Majors shortly after he was convicted of assaulting and harassing Grace Jabbari, his Ex-girlfriend.

This comes after the actor was found guilty of assault and harassment on Monday, Dec. 18, following a two-week trial that stemmed from a March incident between the actor and his ex-partner, Grace Jabbari.

Majors was arrested on March 25, after he called 911 saying he found his ex-partner, Grace Jabbari, in their New York apartment unconscious. Police said they found injuries on Jabbari, including a bruised and fractured finger and a cut behind an ear. She was hospitalized for minor injuries.

Prosecutors have argued that Majors had been physically and psychologically abusive toward Jabbari for years, culminating in the alleged assault. Meanwhile, Majors’ defense team has long claimed that Jabbari was the actual aggressor in the former couple’s altercation.

The 34-year-old actor was convicted by a Manhattan jury of misdemeanor assault and harassment as a violation after Jabbari, 30, testified that she lived in fear of his violent outbursts during a traumatic, two-year-relationship that ended when he struck a “hard blow” across her head early this year.

Within hours of the verdict, Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of Disney, decided to drop Majors. The movie studio had planned to have Majors star as Kang the Conqueror in at least two upcoming films: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” in 2026 and “Avengers: Secret Wars” in 2027.

He faces up to one year behind bars at his sentencing on Feb. 6, though he is more likely to receive a non-jail sentence of probation.

Before his March arrest, Majors was positioned as the key figure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the Disney-owned studio building its entire current story arc around Majors’ Kang the Conqueror. The time-traveling villain factored into this year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as well as both seasons of Loki, and he was going to lead Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, slated for May 1, 2026. The feature is still in the script phase and had not begun filming though.

The former couple met in 2021 on the set of Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which was released a month before Major’s arrest.