Jonathan Majors’ lawyer calls ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari a ‘LIAR’

Grace Jabbari tells ‘white lies’ and invented claims she was injured by then boyfriend Jonathan Majors, a lawyer for the Marvel star informed courtroom because the protection summed up its case at this time.

Attorney Priya Chaudhry tore into Majors’ accuser a day after the courtroom launched graphic picture proof of her accidents and safety footage of the alleged assault.

Majors, who performs Kang the Conqueror within the Marvel sequence, is accused of breaking her finger and reducing her head after she noticed a textual content message from one other lady on his cellphone whereas they have been driving by means of LA in March this yr.

But Chaudhry claimed that Jabbari ‘had a ball’ in a nightclub instantly after the alleged assault and demanded prosecutors clarify why Majors had referred to as 911 if he had brought on the accidents.

‘Jonathan Majors is harmless and Grace is a liar,’ she informed the courtroom in New York.

‘They purchased her white lies. They purchased her large lies. These prosecutors introduced prosecutors white lies. Her large lies. And all her fairly little lies.

‘Grace Jabbari was not damage when she obtained out of the automobile on Centre and Canal.

‘She was revenge partying and charging champagne to the person she was indignant with.

‘The strangers she went clubbing with informed you. The movies confirmed you. She had a ball.’

Chaudhry delivered her closing assertion after the courtroom unsealed a tranche of proof together with texts, audio recordings and safety digicam footage of Majors repeatedly shoving and scuffling Jabbari again into their SUV.

The jury has heard that whereas driving again to their condominium in Manhattan, a message popped up on Majors cellphone which was from one other lady referred to as ‘Cleopatra’ saying: ‘Wish I used to be kissing you’.

While there isn’t any footage from contained in the automobile, there may be safety digicam footage of the SUV stopped on the street as Majors repeatedly pushes Jabbari again inside.

He then may be seen main her to the sidewalk by the fingers after which working off – with Jabbari in pursuit.

In her testimony, Jabbari mentioned that she felt ‘excruciating’ ache as Majors twisted her fingers to seize his cellphone again after she took it from him.

She mentioned that he then hit her on the facet of the pinnacle to get her to launch the system.

‘He places her again within the automobile as a result of they’re in the midst of transferring visitors,’ Chaudhry mentioned at this time.

‘She retains grabbing him. He tells her to go away him alone, he helps her out of the automobile.

‘He walks her safely to the sidewalk.’

The courtroom has heard that Jabbari met up with some strangers on the road who supplied to take her for a drink to console her, so she went to a nightclub with them and went dwelling and handed out.

Majors discovered her slumped within the closet the subsequent day, referred to as the police who got here spherical and arrested him after talking to Jabbari.

‘If you imagine Grace, then regardless of Jonathan Majors telling her how harmful it’s for a black man to name the police in America, regardless of that, he beat her badly in a automobile that was each in his personal title after which he referred to as 911 himself,’ Chaudhry mentioned.

‘If you imagine Grace, then Jonathan brought on these accidents after which he informed the 911 operator about her accidents, after which he informed the cops who confirmed up at his condominium that they’d an argument the evening earlier than.’

Among the proof is an audio recording of Majors berating Jabbari throughout an argument for not residing as much as the requirements of Michelle Obama and Coretta Scott King, the spouse of Martin Luther King.

Text messages despatched by Majors after a battle are additionally included within the proof – and prosecutors say they have been a part of a ‘merciless and manipulative sample of abuse’ and appeared to confess hitting her.

The messages additionally present Majors urging Jabbari to not search assist as a result of it would spark an ‘investigation’.

There can also be a photograph of a dent within the wall that Jabbari claimed was brought on when Majors threw a candle at her throughout one other battle in Los Angeles.

While the fees towards Majors are solely misdemeanors, the stakes for him couldn’t be larger – and he’s preventing for his popularity and his profession.

Since his arrest in March after the incident, his profession has been placed on maintain and ‘Magazine Dreams’, his movie a few troubled bodybuilder which was tipped for an Oscar, has been shelved.

Majors was being lined up because the linchpin of the subsequent chapter within the superhero universe, however that now hinges on the result of the trial.

The 34-year-old has denied assault with intent to trigger bodily harm, assault recklessly inflicting bodily harm, aggravated harassment and harassment.

Even if he’s cleared, the proof that has now been launched might hamper his comeback with Disney, which owns Marvel and was attributable to launch ‘Magazine Dreams’.

Majors started courting the 30-year-old British-born choreographer and dancer, in the summertime of 2021 whereas she was working because the motion director for ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’. which was being shot at Pinewood Studios within the UK.

But prosecutors mentioned that inside just a few months Majors started to indicate his true colors, which have been violent and abusive.

Among the incidents Jabbari testified to was a battle in July 2022 in Los Angeles the place he threw a candle at her, leaving a dent within the wall – a photograph of the harm is among the many displays.

Recounting the incident to the jury, she mentioned: ‘It began within the toilet and as I attempted to get away to the bed room it stayed in that space. Once he was in that rage, that was primarily within the bed room space.

‘(He was throwing) something in his reaching distance, candles and bed room objects.

‘I walked round (hiding) so he would not come for me. He was actually, actually shouting and actually indignant.

‘(I used to be) scared and understanding I wanted to calm him down as a result of I needed it to cease’.

The proof additionally consists of an audio recording of Majors berating Jabbari following one other battle in London in September 2022.

She had angered him by bringing a pal again to their home and informed the courtroom that that following day he tore her headphones off her head and referred to as her ‘silly’ for not understanding why he was indignant.

Jabbari mentioned that Majors then grabbed all of her objects from the home, stuffed them into trash baggage then put them into the rubbish bins.

In the audio, which was launched for the primary time, Majors could possibly be heard saying ‘how dare you’ and telling her to be extra like Coretta Scott King, the spouse of Martin Luther King, and Michelle Obama.

Majors may be heard saying: ‘I’m a terrific man. A terrific man. I’m doing nice issues not only for me however for my tradition…for the world’.

He mentioned he wanted a ‘lady that helps me’, a ‘nice lady’ who would ‘make sacrifices’.

Majors may be heard saying that Jabbarii ‘took away from the plan and the plan is all the pieces’.

The courtroom additionally launched dozens of texts between Jabbari and Majors despatched after a battle in September 2022.

Majors wrote: ‘It’s simply pretend. And you could have, I worry, no perspective of what might occur when you go to the hospital. They will ask you questions and, as I do not suppose you possibly can truly defend us, it might result in an investigation, even when you do lie and so they suspect one thing’.

Jabbari responded that she would inform the physician that she ‘bumped my head’

After a battle in September 2022 – it isn’t clear if it was the identical one, Majors threatened to kill himself in textual content messages if Jabbari went to get therapy.

A home violence professional for the prosecution has informed the courtroom that threats like this generally is a approach for an abuser to take care of management over their victims.

Majors mentioned: ‘Last evening I thought-about killing myself versus coming dwelling.

‘I would like love too. Or perhaps I’m such a monster and horrible man, I do not deserve it. And I ought to simply kill myself. In this manner, my existence is depressing, I wish to die’.

Jabbari replied: ‘I cannot go to the physician when you do not feel protected with me doing so, or do not belief me to. I promise you I’d by no means point out you however perceive your worry’.

Majors responded: ‘I’m a monster, a horrible man, not able to love. I’m killing myself quickly’

Majors has been supported in courtroom each day by his girlfriend Meagan Good, the mannequin and actress.

He has at instances appeared incredulous at Jabbari’s testimony and has sat in courtroom studying the Bible which he has introduced with him to courtroom each day.

‘You in all probability have your individual listing of the best lies that Grace has ever informed you,’ Chaudhry mentioned.

‘But I wish to finish this nightmare for Jonathan now, instantly, and as rapidly as doable. It’s simply pretend.

‘Nothing she says is sensible. Nothing she says is medically doable.’