Actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on Saturday in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment, authorities said.
Majors, star of the recently released Creed III and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30-year-old woman, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said.
Police at about 11am responded to a 911 call inside an apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, it said.
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“The victim informed police she was assaulted,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement. “Officers placed the 33-year-old male into custody without incident. The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.”
He was no longer in police custody as of Saturday night, the spokesperson said.
A representative for Major denied any wrongdoing by the actor.
“He has done nothing wrong,” the representative wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Saturday. “We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up.”
Majors is one of the fastest-rising stars in Hollywood. After breaking through in 2019’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Majors has starred in Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall and last year’s Devotion.
He also stars in the recent Sundance Film Festival entry Magazine Dreams, which Searchlight Pictures is to release in December.
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