Rolling Stone: Jonathan Majors is a serial abuser of women & coworkers

In March, Jonathan Majors was arrested for domestic violence against his then-girlfriend. Once he was arrested, the whisper network got a lot louder – there were stories about how Majors was seriously abusive to multiple girlfriends and coworkers. To make matters a lot worse, Majors’ lawyer released the texts between Majors and his victim, texts which the lawyer claimed would exonerate him… and the texts revealed that his victim had been brutalized by him and she was terrified of him. He lost his management team, his agent, he’s been dropped from several projects too. This week, people tried to make it sound like the case against him was falling apart, but he’s still set to go on trial on August 3rd in New York. Majors’ people also want it to be known that his victim is being investigated for hitting him too. Considering he reportedly strangled her to the point where she lost consciousness, I hope no one is buying the “they are BOTH abusers” line popularized by male abusers. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone published their three month investigation into Majors and his abusive past. This is all just sickening.

During this three-month investigation, Rolling Stone spoke with more than 40 people who have known Majors during his time in graduate school, his Hollywood career, and his romantic relationships. Many describe Majors as being a complicated, unpredictable, and sometimes violent man, who can switch from charming to cold in a flash. (All of the sources for this article requested anonymity, citing fear of career repercussions and personal retribution from Majors. Some claim they were prohibited from speaking. “My only response can be that I am silenced by an NDA he had me sign,” says one person who worked with Majors.)

Their stories suggest a pattern of alleged physical, mental, and emotional abuse that dates back a decade to Majors’ time at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama — where he was involved in physical altercations — and continued to the sets of his movies and TV shows, where production members raised concerns over his treatment of crew.

“Jonathan Majors vehemently denies Rolling Stone’s false allegations that he physically, verbally, or emotionally abused anyone, let alone any of his past romantic partners,” Majors’ attorney, Dustin A. Pusch, wrote in a statement. “These allegations are based entirely on hearsay because neither of the romantic partners referenced were willing to engage with Rolling Stone for the article—demonstrating their outright falsity.” Pusch added that Majors “also denies any allegations of abuse, violence, or intimidation during his time at Yale.”

Most seriously, more than a dozen sources collectively claim to Rolling Stone that Majors allegedly abused two romantic partners — one physically, both of them emotionally. “It was pervasively known that he was [a good actor], and that he also would terrorize the people that he had dated,” one of those sources says.

Majors allegedly strangled one woman he was dating, and was mentally and emotionally abusive with her, nine of those sources claim. The second woman allegedly told friends that her relationship with Majors was “emotional torture.” Those who are friends with the women or were present during their relationships with Majors independently corroborated details of the alleged abuse. Throughout conversations with Rolling Stone, they describe feeling alarmed by what they witnessed at the time or what they were told by the women.

Rolling Stone is withholding the names of the women and the specifics of their relationships, as several sources voiced fear that Majors and his team would retaliate against the women.

“My experience in dealing with him and watching him in relationships with several women [is] really upsetting,” says one person familiar with at least two of Majors’ relationships. “As an outside observer, it made me uncomfortable.”

Majors was aggressive at work, as well, according to sources. Most recently, on the set of the upcoming film Magazine Dreams, two production members claim the 33-year-old actor pushed one person while on set and physically intimidated another while screaming at them, leading to a complaint to producers. The sources say executive producers warned them to give Majors his space. (A production source with knowledge of the situation claims to Rolling Stone that producers were only aware of one complaint that was made toward the end of filming, and disputed the person was physically intimidated.)

[From Rolling Stone]

Yeah… I need Meghan Good’s family and friends to get her the hell away from Jonathan Majors. I don’t care if it’s solely a PR relationship to rehabilitate his image, that’s completely over now, as is his career. This was the sense I got once he was arrested too – that it was just a matter of time, that he had left a string of victims behind in his wake, that Jonathan Majors is a serial abuser. Some of those victims have apparently been speaking to the DA’s office in charge of Majors’ case too.

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