Jonathan Majors Domestic Violence Accuser Threatened Suicide, NY DA Tells Trial; Defense Claims Prosecution Want To “Distract” Jury
deadline.comJonathan Majors used cruelty and manipulation to control Grace Jabbari — and when his girlfriend of two years discovered that the acclaimed actor was cheating on her with another woman, the psychological abuse turned physical.
That what the a prosecution told a New York City jury today in opening arguments of Majors’ domestic violence trial Jabbari also threatened to commit suicide that night, an assistant Manhattan district attorney, Michael Perez, told jurors as Jabbari and Majors both sat in the courtroom looking on.
Unsurprisingly, in opening statements from both the prosecution and the defense this morning it was a tale of two very different incidents.
The Creed III actor left Jabbari with a fractured finger, pain from a twisted arm, and a bloody cut behind one ear while wresting his cellphone back from her on a late-night car ride through Manhattan in the late hours between March 24 and 25, Perez said.
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