Jonathan Majors’ misdemeanor assault trial was adjourned again Friday to give prosecutors a chance to respond to the “Creed III” star’s claims that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office “buried” a video of his accuser playing his allegedly broken finger at a dance club for hours. after the alleged attack.
Majors, 34, wearing a light tan polo, appeared virtually on a flat-screen monitor during a brief hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where a judge pushed back the start of his trial to at least Oct. 25.
The appearance comes days after Majors’ attorneys, Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman, accused prosecutors of burying evidence that “complicated” the DA’s case amid a massive information dump handed over to the defense team.
Majors was accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend during a fight in Chelsea in March, and the “Lovecraft Country” star faces further abuse allegations after an explosive Rolling Stone exposé featured a dozen sources outlining the actor’s alleged treatment of his exes — including one of his girlfriends who didn’t was said to have suffered “extreme abuse, both physically and mentally.”
Majors has consistently maintained his innocence, with his attorney arguing that it was actually his ex, Grace Jabbari, 30, who attacked him in the March 25 incident.
A police source told The Post that NYPD investigators found it possible to arrest Jabbari, a professional dancer, after the episode. But prosecutors didn’t buy that version of events and instead arrested Majors, charging him with assault, harassment and a strangulation rap that was later dropped.
Evidence released by Majors’ attorney showed his accuser was consoled minutes after the alleged attack. Court documents
The main accuser went dancing at a lower Manhattan nightclub hours after the alleged attack, lawyers said. Court documents
“Instead of dismissing false accusations against an innocent Black man, the People instead deliberately withheld evidence of his innocence” and “concealed evidence that proved his white accusers lied,” Majors’ attorney wrote in new court papers filed in the case Tuesday.
The Majors team also released several videos from the night of the episode as exhibits with the court.
One of the videos, obtained by The Post, shows a woman wearing a dress similar to the one Jabbari wore that night being twirled around, “ballroom dance style,” by her “supposedly broken finger” hours after the alleged attack at a nightclub called Loosie’s. on the Bowery in lower Manhattan.
Majors’ attorney said the woman in the video was Jabbari, and that the video helped Majors’ case because it showed Jabbari was still in good enough spirits after the alleged attack to go out with friends.
The “Creed III” star faces charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment over the alleged assault.Steven Hirsch
A second video released to the public court docket shows Jabbari approaching a group of strangers on the sidewalk 8 minutes after the alleged attack, Majors’ attorney said.
It’s hard to see every word spoken in the video — which was obtained from a surveillance camera at a nearby apartment building — but Jabbari is seen sobbing and upset in the footage.
“We can’t leave this girl behind!” said one of the observers who was talking to Jabbari during the video, offering to call him a taxi.
The video ends with Majors appearing in the frame, before Jabbari and three unidentified people follow him out of shot.
Lead attorneys Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman have urged the judge to dismiss the case.Steven Hirsch
Majors’ attorneys wrote Tuesday that the video showed that Jabbari was “unharmed” after the alleged attack, and asked that the case be dismissed.
The lawyer also claimed that prosecutors failed to promptly turn over the taxi driver’s statement from the night of the incident, in which the driver called Jabbari a “psycho girl” and claimed Jabbari was the aggressor in the encounter.
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to comment Friday.
Prosecutors are expected to address the arguments in legal filings by October 6.
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