Jonathan Majors’ lawyer calls ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari a ‘LIAR’ during closing arguments – a day after court released shocking images of her injuries
- Defense attorney dismisses photos of Grace Jabbari’s injuries accusing her of ‘white lies’, ‘big lies, and ‘pretty little lies’
- ‘Jonathan Majors is innocent and Grace is a liar,’ she tells the Marvel star’s trial
- Closing statements are underway in the trial which sees Major’s career on the line as he stands accused of assault and aggravated harassment
Grace Jabbari tells ‘white lies’ and invented claims she was injured by then boyfriend Jonathan Majors, a lawyer for the Marvel star told court as the defense summed up its case today.
Attorney Priya Chaudhry tore into Major’s accuser a day after the court released graphic photo evidence of her injuries and security footage of the alleged attack.
Majors, who plays Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel series, is accused of breaking her finger and cutting her head after she saw a text message from another woman on his phone while they were driving through LA in March this year.
But Chaudhry claimed that Jabbari ‘had a ball’ in a nightclub immediately after the alleged attack and demanded prosecutors explain why Majors had called 911 if he had caused the injuries.
‘Jonathan Majors is innocent and Grace is a liar,’ she told the court in New York.
‘They bought her white lies. They bought her big lies. These prosecutors brought prosecutors white lies. Her big lies. And all her pretty little lies.
Jonathan Majors arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court with girlfriend Meagan Goode today to hear his attorneys sum up the case for the defense
Jonathan Majors is seen in police bodycam as he was arrested in March. The clip is part of the trove of evidence that has been released during his assault trial
Majors found Jabbari slumped in the closet the next day, called the police who came round and arrested him after speaking to Jabbari. Among the evidence released by the court were photographs of Majors and Jabbari and their injuries
‘Grace Jabbari was not hurt when she got out of the car on Centre and Canal.
‘She was revenge partying and charging champagne to the man she was angry with.
‘The strangers she went clubbing with told you. The videos showed you. She had a ball.’
Chaudhry delivered her closing statement after the court unsealed a tranche of evidence including texts, audio recordings and security camera footage of Majors repeatedly shoving and scuffling Jabbari back into their SUV.
The jury has heard that while driving back to their apartment in Manhattan, a message popped up on Majors phone which was from another woman called ‘Cleopatra’ saying: ‘Wish I was kissing you’.
While there is no footage from inside the car, there is security camera footage of the SUV stopped in the street as Majors repeatedly pushes Jabbari back inside.
He then can be seen leading her to the sidewalk by the hands and then running off – with Jabbari in pursuit.
In her testimony, Jabbari said that she felt ‘excruciating’ pain as Majors twisted her fingers to grab his phone back after she took it from him.
She said that he then hit her on the side of the head to get her to release the device.
‘He puts her back in the car because they’re in the middle of moving traffic,’ Chaudhry said today.
‘She keeps grabbing him. He tells her to leave him alone, he helps her out of the car.
‘He walks her safely to the sidewalk.’
The court has heard that Jabbari met up with some strangers on the street who offered to take her for a drink to console her, so she went to a nightclub with them and went home and passed out.
Majors found her slumped in the closet the next day, called the police who came round and arrested him after speaking to Jabbari.
The Marvel star arrived a day after the court ordered the release of a tranche of videos, audio recordings, text messages and photographs
It is the ninth day of his trial on charges of assault with intent to cause physical injury, assault recklessly causing physical injury, aggravated harassment and harassment
The court has been shown evidence of the fight, including pictures of the swelling on Grace Jabbari’s fingers
Pictured: A cut behind Jabbari’s ear. While the charges against Majors are only misdemeanors, the stakes for him could not be higher – and he is fighting for his reputation and his career
The video, shown to court, shows Jabbari and Majors scuffling on the street after a fight
While there is no footage from inside the car, there is security camera footage of the SUV stopped in the street as Majors repeatedly pushes Jabbari back inside. He then can be seen leading her to the sidewalk by the hands and then running off – with Jabbari in pursuit
Majors is seen repeatedly shoving Jabbari back into the SUV in March 2023, footage shows
Evidence shown to court reveals Jabbari’s swollen finger and marks to her neck
In her testimony, Jabbari said that she felt ‘excruciating’ pain as Majors twisted her fingers to grab his phone back after she took it from him
‘If you believe Grace, then despite Jonathan Majors telling her how dangerous it is for a Black man to call the police in America, despite that, he beat her badly in a car that was both in his own name and then he called 911 himself,’ Chaudhry said.
‘If you believe Grace, then Jonathan caused these injuries and then he told the 911 operator about her injuries, and then he told the cops who showed up at his apartment that they had an argument the night before.’
Among the evidence is an audio recording of Majors berating Jabbari during an argument for not living up to the standards of Michelle Obama and Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King.
Text messages sent by Majors after a fight are also included in the evidence – and prosecutors say they were part of a ‘cruel and manipulative pattern of abuse’ and appeared to admit hitting her.
The messages also show Majors urging Jabbari not to seek help because it might spark an ‘investigation’.
Defense attorney Priya Chaudhry said Jabbari told ‘white lies’, ‘big lies, and ‘pretty little lies’
There is also a photo of a dent in the wall that Jabbari claimed was caused when Majors threw a candle at her during another fight in Los Angeles.
While the charges against Majors are only misdemeanors, the stakes for him could not be higher – and he is fighting for his reputation and his career.
Since his arrest in March after the incident, his career has been put on hold and ‘Magazine Dreams’, his film about a troubled bodybuilder which was tipped for an Oscar, has been shelved.
Majors was being lined up as the linchpin of the next chapter in the superhero universe, but that now hinges on the outcome of the trial.
The 34-year-old has denied assault with intent to cause physical injury, assault recklessly causing physical injury, aggravated harassment and harassment.
Even if he is cleared, the evidence that has now been released could hamper his comeback with Disney, which owns Marvel and was due to release ‘Magazine Dreams’.
Majors began dating the 30-year-old British-born choreographer and dancer, in the summer of 2021 while she was working as the movement director for ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’. which was being shot at Pinewood Studios in the UK.
But prosecutors said that within a few months Majors began to show his true colours, which were violent and abusive.
Among the incidents Jabbari testified to was a fight in July 2022 in Los Angeles where he threw a candle at her, leaving a dent in the wall – a photo of the damage is among the exhibits.
Recounting the incident to the jury, she said: ‘It started in the bathroom and as I tried to get away to the bedroom it stayed in that area. Once he was in that rage, that was mainly in the bedroom area.
Text messages between Jonathan Majors (black bubble) and Grace Jabbari (blue bubble) from September 22, 2022
Jabbari is seen showing a police officer her cuts the morning after the alleged fight
A picture taken after one of the couple’s fights in LA when he allegedly threw a candle at Jabbari, July 9, 2022
Majors is accused of grabbing Jabbari (pictured right) and twisting her arm on the way home from a night out after she spotted a flirty text from another woman. He denies the allegations
‘(He was throwing) anything in his reaching distance, candles and bedroom objects.
‘I walked around (hiding) so he wouldn’t come for me. He was really, really shouting and really angry.
‘(I was) scared and knowing I needed to calm him down because I wanted it to stop’.
The evidence also includes an audio recording of Majors berating Jabbari following another fight in London in September 2022.
She had angered him by bringing a friend back to their house and told the court that that following day he tore her headphones off her head and called her ‘stupid’ for not knowing why he was angry.
Jabbari said that Majors then grabbed all of her items from the house, stuffed them into trash bags then put them into the garbage bins.
In the audio, which was released for the first time, Majors could be heard saying ‘how dare you’ and telling her to be more like Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King, and Michelle Obama.
Majors can be heard saying: ‘I am a great man. A great man. I am doing great things not just for me but for my culture…for the world’.
He said he needed a ‘woman that supports me’, a ‘great woman’ who would ‘make sacrifices’.
Majors can be heard saying that Jabbarii ‘took away from the plan and the plan is everything’.
The court also released dozens of texts between Jabbari and Majors sent after a fight in September 2022.
Majors wrote: ‘It’s just fake. And you have, I fear, no perspective of what could happen if you go to the hospital. They will ask you questions and, as I don’t think you can actually protect us, it could lead to an investigation, even if you do lie and they suspect something’.
Jabbari responded that she would tell the doctor that she ‘bumped my head’
After a fight in September 2022 – it is not clear if it was the same one, Majors threatened to kill himself in text messages if Jabbari went to get treatment.
A domestic violence expert for the prosecution has told the court that threats like this can be a way for an abuser to maintain control over their victims.
Majors said: ‘Last night I considered killing myself versus coming home.
‘I need love too. Or maybe I’m such a monster and horrible man, I don’t deserve it. And I should just kill myself. In this way, my existence is miserable, I want to die’.
Jabbari replied: ‘I will not go to the doctor if you don’t feel safe with me doing so, or don’t trust me to. I promise you I would never mention you but understand your fear’.
Majors responded: ‘I’m a monster, a horrible man, not capable of love. I’m killing myself soon’
Majors has been supported in court every day by his girlfriend Meagan Good, the model and actress.
The actor, 34, warned Jabbari she had ‘no perspective of what could happen’ if the truth about a head injury got out, according to text messages read during Majors’ criminal trial
Jonathan Majors arrives at court on December 13
He has at times appeared incredulous at Jabbari’s testimony and has sat in court reading the Bible which he has brought with him to court every day.
‘You probably have your own list of the greatest lies that Grace has ever told you,’ Chaudhry said.
‘But I want to end this nightmare for Jonathan now, immediately, and as quickly as possible. It’s just fake.
‘Nothing she says makes sense. Nothing she says is medically possible.’
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