{"id":49854,"date":"2023-03-27T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/27\/actor-jonathan-majors-arrested-on-assault-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:45:54","slug":"actor-jonathan-majors-arrested-on-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/27\/actor-jonathan-majors-arrested-on-assault-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Creed III actor Jonathan Majors has been arrested on strangulation, assault and harassment charges.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department said Mr Majors, who stars alongside Michael B Jordan in the recently released film, was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30-year-old woman on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim informed police she was assaulted,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Majors was briefly taken into custody. A lawyer for the 33-year-old actor denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said they were called around 11:14 local time after receiving a 911 call from an apartment in Manhattan\u2019s Chelsea district.<\/p>\n<p>They added the woman suffered minor head and neck injuries and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He was released from custody by Saturday night, an NYPD spokesperson told the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement obtained by the BBC, Mr Majors\u2019 lawyer said the actor was \u201ccompletely innocent\u201d and alleged the star was the victim of the altercation involving a woman known to him.<\/p>\n<p>Priya Chaudhry said: \u201cWe are quickly gathering and presenting evidence to the District Attorney with the expectation that all charges will be dropped imminently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis evidence includes video footage from the vehicle where this episode took place, witness testimony from the driver and others who both saw and heard the episode, and most importantly, two written statements from the woman recanting these allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the evidence proves that Mr Majors is entirely innocent and did not assault her whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Majors\u2019 arrest comes just weeks after the actor presented an award\u00a0at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img class=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/_129149459_gettyimages-1473085931-1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael B Jordan and Jonathan Majors at the Oscars presenting an award\" title=\"Actor Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charges\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jonathan Majors, right, and Creed III co-star Michael B Jordan recently presented an award at the Oscars (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His career took off after breaking through in 2019\u2019s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, before going onto to star in\u00a0Netflix western The Harder They Fall\u00a0and Marvel Comics film Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Majors plays Jordan\u2019s adversary in Creed III, a boxing film released earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creed III actor Jonathan Majors has been arrested on strangulation, assault and harassment charges. The New York Police Department said Mr Majors, who stars alongside Michael B Jordan in the recently released film, was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30-year-old woman on Saturday. \u201cThe victim informed police she was assaulted,\u201d a police spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Actor Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charges - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/27\/actor-jonathan-majors-arrested-on-assault-charges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Actor Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charges - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Creed III actor Jonathan Majors has been arrested on strangulation, assault and harassment charges. 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