Marvel star Jonathan Majors has been dumped by Disney after being found guilty by a New York jury of charges of attacking his ex-girlfriend in the back of a car.

Majors, who had been seen as one of the future faces of Disney’s Marvel superhero franchise until the allegations stalled his rapid rise, had been charged with two counts of assault and two counts of harassment, all misdemeanours.

The jury of six convicted him on one count of assault and one count of harassment and acquitted him of the other charges.

Majors, 34, will be sentenced on February 6. He faces up to a year in prison, but prosecutors have not indicated what sentence they plan to seek.

The verdict on Monday (local time) followed a two-week trial in state court in Manhattan.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office hailed it in a statement, saying the evidence showed a “cycle of psychological and emotional abuse, and escalating patterns of coercion” by Majors.

Shortly after the verdict on Monday, a representative for Walt Disney-owned Marvel said the studio had dropped the actor from future projects.

Majors had starred in the 2019 film The Last Black Man in San Francisco before landing top billing in Creed III. He played villain Kang the Conqueror in this year’s Ant-Man movie and was scheduled to have the lead role in 2026 release Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

After his arrest, he was dropped by his management company, public relations firm and some advertisers, including the US Army. Disney had also removed his upcoming film Magazine Dreams from its release schedule.

Neither he nor his management has yet made a public statement.

On Monday, Majors, dressed in a grey suit, pursed his lips and cast his face down when the first conviction was read.

Prosecutors said Majors assaulted his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in a hired car in Manhattan in March, leaving her with a broken finger and swollen arm and ear.

He was charged with two assault counts and two harassment counts, all misdemeanours.

Jabbari said over four days of testimony that Majors attacked her after she grabbed his phone upon seeing a text from another woman.

She also described his “violent temper” and other incidents where he “exploded” in anger.

“She had shaped herself around the defendant, to cater to his personality, to avoid him being angry with her,” prosecutor Kelli Galaway said during closing arguments on Thursday.

Majors’ lawyer sought to flip the script, claiming it was Jabbari who victimised Majors by attacking him in the car and then falsely accusing him of assault after he broke up with her.

“You are here to end this nightmare for Jonathan Majors,” lawyer Priya Chaudhry said through tears during her closing argument.

Majors filed his own complaint against Jabbari, prompting her arrest on assault charges in October.

But the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later closed the case because it “lacks prosecutorial merit”.

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