As his assault case continues, Jonathan Majors called into a lower Manhattan court on Zoom for a status conference on Tuesday.
During the hearing, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office unveiled a superseding complaint with a charge of third degree assault, a class A misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of 12 months of jail time or three years probation, per Deadline.
Judge Rachel S. Pauley also told the “Lovecraft Country” alum that he must appear in person for his next scheduled court date on June 13, Deadline adds.
“I’m required to inform you that, as you know, if you fail to appear in court on June 13, a warrant can be issued for your arrest within 48 hours, and if you’re brought back on the warrant, the next judge can revoke and even set bail,” Pauley said on Tuesday. “I obviously don’t want that to happen.”
Majors was arrested in Manhattan on March 25 after a dispute with a 30-year-old woman, the identity of whom has not been disclosed, as Variety reports. The alleged victim said she had been assaulted, and Majors was charged with multiple counts of assault in the third degree, three counts of attempted assault in the third degree, one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree, and one count harassment in the second degree, Variety adds.
Last month, Majors — who starred in this year’s films “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “Creed III” — was dropped by 360 Entertainment, his former management, and The Lede Company, his former PR team.
The 33-year-old also lost his role in the upcoming movie “The Man in My Basement” and was dropped from ad campaigns for the U.S. Army and for the Texas Rangers baseball team.
Variety reported last month that more women came forward with abuse allegations against Majors and were cooperating with the district attorney.
Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ lawyer, told the press on Tuesday that the criminal justice system is “saturated with explicit and implicit bias,” saying that white police officers didn’t investigate the injuries the woman allegedly inflicted on the actor, per Deadline.
“We have provided the district attorney with irrefutable evidence that the woman is lying, including video proof showing nothing happened, especially not where she claimed,” Chaudhry added. “We did this with the explicit promise from the DA that they would not ‘fix’ their case and change it as we proved the woman is lying.”
Chandry added: “This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors, driven by baseless claims. … Instead of dismissing the allegations in the face of the woman’s clear lies, the DA has adjusted the charges to match the woman’s new lies. To be clear, there are no new charges against Mr. Majors.”
Ahead of his next court date, Majors is still subject to a temporary order of protection and can “have no contact whatsoever” with the alleged victim, Pauley said.