Multiple victims of the actor’s abuse would be cooperating with the prosecution after the arrest.
After the arrest of Jonathan Majors Consequences quickly followed. Two days after the incident, the US military decided to remove an extensive ad campaign that had the actor at its center. Weeks later it was learned that up to two advertising companies broke with Majors: Entertainment 360 and The Lede Company. For now, the actor maintains his association with the WME representative agency: the same one that in the past dispensed with clients such as Brett Ratner, Bryan Singer and Armie Hammer.
In the days leading up to the hearing scheduled for May 8, the case continues to get more complicated. The Variety portal now says that several new victims of Majors went to the police after his arrest, and are cooperating with the Manhattan prosecutor’s office to press more charges. The possibility that there are more women assaulted by Majors and this materializes in the trial would be a dramatic turn for the case, where until now Majors’ legal team has defended the actor’s innocence before the media.
“He has not mistreated anyone. We trust that he will be fully exonerated.”says Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ attorney. One of her first strategies was, together with her husband andrew bourke (also a publicist for Majors) leaked to the press a series of messages that Majors would have exchanged with the alleged victim shortly after the incident. Chaudhry assures that it was Majors who called 911, and this version would agree with some messages where the unknown woman apologizes and assures that “they told her that they would not charge her.”
But the messages don’t clarify why the woman lost consciousness, and a figure close to the case says they “sound like they’re out of a bad Lifetime movie.” “They actually look like text messages from a textbook battered woman.”
In relation to this, the fact that other victims have appeared at the police station endorses certain comments that arose after the arrest of Majors, and which pointed out that the actor had previously incurred in similar abuses against more women.
The Majors altercation comes in the midst of what has been a prosperous 2023 with Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania having grossed a combined $745 million at the box office, plus rave reviews from Sundance for his turn as a mentally disturbed amateur bodybuilder in Magazine Dreams. Disney’s Searchlight Pictures acquired that film outside the festival, outbidding several bidders, and set a release date of December 8, 2023.
Majors has already filmed the second season of Loki of Marvel/Disney+in which he reprises his supervillain role as Kang the Conqueror, and will soon appear before the cameras in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Rumors aside, Marvel isn’t planning on removing Majors from their universe, for now.
Source: Ambito
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