No jail for Marvel actor Jonathan Majors after judge agrees to DA-recommended domestic-violence program

• Jonathan Majors got a no-jail sentence for a fight last year with his then-girlfriend.
• He must attend a 52-week in-person domestic-violence program in Los Angeles.
• Grace Jabbari cried and said, "He is not sorry."

The former Marvel star Jonathan Majors was sentenced Monday to attend a 52-week domestic-violence program in lieu of jail for a violent fight in New York City's Chinatown last year with his then-girlfriend.

"In love, there should not be violence," the ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, said in a victim-impact statement that criticized the actor for never admitting to violence, even in a nationally broadcast interview on ABC News after his conviction.

"His statements continue to cause me, my family, and my loved ones harm," Jabbari told the judge Monday, crying, as Majors listened with his head bowed at the defense table.

"He is not sorry. He has not accepted responsibility, and he will do it again," she said. "He will hurt other people."

Judge Michael Gaffey of New York City Criminal Court said he took into account the wishes of prosecutors and Majors' lack of a criminal record in sentencing the star to attend a 52-week in-person "batterers intervention" program.

If he fails to attend the program and continue therapy, Majors, a Los Angeles resident, faces up to a year in a New York jail.

The judge also ordered a permanent order of protection barring Majors from contact with Jabbari.

Majors did not speak in court. Priya Chaudhry, his attorney, said he would remain silent because of Jabbari's pending federal lawsuit against him.

The actor, the lawyer said, has lost employment and suffered great emotional and financial harm from the incident.

Majors arrived in court with his actor girlfriend, Meagan Good. She dabbed at both her eyes with her fingers when the judge said he would not be sending Majors to jail.

She sat in the courtroom audience directly behind Majors' seat at the defense table. The two exchanged glances before the proceeding, with Majors at one point giving her the thumbs-up sign.

Majors had faced anywhere from no jail to a year behind bars after a jury found him guilty in December of misdemeanor reckless assault and a lesser charge of harassment.

Jabbari called Majors a manipulative "monster" when she testified against him.

Majors was a rising star before his arrest in March 2023. He won accolades as a fighter in "Creed III" and as the Marvel supervillain Kang the Conqueror. He recently starred in season two of the hit Disney+ show "Loki."

Jabbari, 30, is a London movement coach who met Majors, 34, in 2021 on the set of " Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ."

She told jurors at last year's misdemeanor trial that Majors slapped her in the head so hard that her ear bled and that he twisted her right hand so violently her finger broke.

Chaudhry countered that video surveillance from the hours after the fight showed she was uninjured.

She contended that Jabbari was the aggressor in the fight, in which the then-couple grappled over Majors' cellphone in the back seat of his chauffeured car.

Majors had received a text from another woman that read, " Wish I was kissing you ," and she had pulled his phone away to see who sent it, Jabbari testified.

Majors' cross-complaint against Jabbari , accusing her of scratching his face and arm during the fight and of stealing from him afterward, was dropped by prosecutors .

The actor must return to court on September 13 for an update.