In December, a jury found Majors guilty of reckless assault in the third-degree and second-degree harassment against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.Jonathan Majors to participate in a domestic violence treatment program and declined to give Majors any jail time. The sentencing comes about four months after a jury found Majors guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in an incident from March 2023.
Majors and Jabbari were both present for the sentencing hearing. Prior to the sentencing, Jabbari read a victim impact statement. “He will do this again,” she said of Majors,. “This is a man who thinks he is above the law.” She also referenced Majors’ interviews and public commentary denying that he was abusive toward her: “Even after a jury found him guilty, he will not stop. He is not sorry. He has not accepted responsibility. … He will hurt other women.
“When publicly confronted with Grace’s numerous allegations of abuse, Majors has called her a liar at every turn and very specifically claimed that he has never put his hands on a woman, with the goal of convincing the world that Grace is not a victim of domestic abuse but instead a crazy liar who should be treated as such,” the filingagainst Jabbari, stemming from the aforementioned March 2023 incident in which Majors physically attacked Jabbari for looking at his phone.
Jabbari testified that she struggled to get help throughout her abusive relationship with Majors because she feared getting him in trouble, as Majors warned her against trusting the police because of “what they would do to him as a Black man.” She told the jury, “IBut I felt scared to do that. … I loved him still, it was so confusing and I didn’t want to get him in trouble.” Meanwhile, Majors’ legal team claimed Jabbari was the aggressor in the relationship.