Jonathan Majors Accused Of Abuse By 2 Former Girlfriends

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Two girls who’ve been beforehand concerned with Jonathan Majors have now come ahead publicly with allegations of abuse by the film star.

A brand new report from the New York Occasions launched on Thursday (Feb. 8) has revealed that two former girlfriends of actor Jonathan Majors have come ahead to publicly accuse him of abuse. Emma Duncan, who was engaged to Majors from 2015 to 2019, and Maura Hooper who dated Majors from 2013 to 2015 are the ladies who made their claims to the press. The allegations come two months after the previous Marvel actor was convicted in New York on expenses of reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari stemming from an incident final March.

The ladies initially gave accounts of their experiences with him in interviews and statements delivered to the courtroom earlier than Majors’ trial underneath the Molineux rule which allowed the courtroom to find out if the prosecution might submit proof to point out a previous sample of conduct. Duncan said that Majors was emotionally abusive throughout their relationship, and had additionally choked and bruised her at a number of factors along with making disturbing threats in opposition to her. Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ protection lawyer, mentioned in a press release that Majors denied these acts but in addition mentioned he was “selecting to take accountability for his personal half in that poisonous relationship, specializing in himself, and addressing his lifelong despair.”

Hooper’s assertion additionally contained allegations of emotional abuse directed in the direction of her by Majors whereas they had been college students on the Yale Faculty of Drama, together with one occasion the place he advised her he’d “rip you out of my coronary heart the best way they ripped our child out of you” about an abortion she had months into their relationship. Chaudhry’s assertion says that Majors remembers the “mutually intense conversations” however “regrets saying hurtful issues.” Finally, the courtroom didn’t permit the statements to be entered into proof.

In separate statements to the New York Times, two girls who labored on the set of HBO’s Lovecraft Country with Majors in 2019 delivered statements of their confrontational experiences with Majors which made for a “hostile work atmosphere.” A number of girls crew members had complained to higher-ups on the community about his conduct, forcing HBO to compel him to ship an apology to the ladies, which he reportedly did so gruffly, saying it was “a misunderstanding.” Chaudhry mentioned that Majors had “by no means been advised that anybody objected to his conduct.”