Three Witnesses Testify As the Jonathan Majors Trial Enters its Second Week
The Jonathan Majors domestic assault trial kicked off its second week on Monday with more eyewitnesses testifying.
Last week, Majors’s ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari testified that she and Majors were driving home on the night of March 25 when she saw a text message on Majors’ phone that read, “Wish I was kissing you right now.”
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After Jabbari took the phone out of his hands, Majros forcefully retrieved it, twisting Jabbari’s hands and hitting her behind her ear.
Following the incident, Jabbari left the car and met three strangers on the street. After she told them what happened, they invited Jabbari to a birthday party at Loosie’s Nightclub in Manhattan.
Jabbari said she accompanied them because “she didn’t want to be alone.” She danced with her new friends and drank tequila and champagne with Majors’s credit card.
“I was upset about the cheating,” she said during her testimony last week. “It was on my mind.”
The Strangers Jabbari Met Testify
Two of the three people that Jabbari met that night, Cloe Zoller and Max Menning, testified on Monday.
Zoller said that Jabbari was “visibly upset’ outside, though she did not notice any injuries. Inside the club, Zoller said that Jabbari complained that her finger was hurting, so she gave her ice from a drink bucket on their table.
Majors’s Driver Testifies
Also testifying was Naveed Sarwar, the driver of the car that Majors and Jabbari had been in. Through an interpreter, he confirmed that he had been hired as Majors’s private driver for the day.
Sarawar drove the couple to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and then to a restaurant for dinner. The chauffeur testified that the couple had seemed “good” earlier in the day, but things changed when Jabbari saw the text message on Majors’s phone.
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At that point, Sarwar testified, Jabbari became “angry,” and she and Majors began to argue.
“I was feeling something was going on in the backseat,” Sarwar said. “When I reached at Canal and Centre Street, [Majors] wanted to get rid of [Jabbari] and he opened the door…I saw they were fighting when the car stopped. He was trying to get rid of her.”
Jabbari’s Injuries
At this point, the prosecution played video footage from security and traffic cameras that showed Majors’s and Jabbari’s altercation and Jabbari meeting the three people on the street.
Jabbari was treated by Dr. William K. Chaiang at Bellevue Hospital for her injuries. When she was admitted, she told the staff that she had gotten into an argument with her boyfriend and taken two sleeping pills.
Jonathan Majors. Photo: Entertainment Weekly
Chaing determined that Jabbari had a hairline fracture, a non-displaced fracture in her right middle figure, and a two-centimeter cut behind her ear. The cut, Chaing said, was consistent with hitting or being hit by sharp objects.
The Defense Says Majors Was the Victim
Majors’s attorney, Priya Chaudhry, has alleged that it was Jabbari who assaulted Majors. The defense has argued that Jabbari fabricated the allegations to get back at Majors.
Sarwar testified that he thought Jabbari may have hit majors during the argument, but he was reminded by the judge to describe only what he saw.
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“[Jabbari] was yelling at [Majors] and they were having an argument. I had a feeling [Jabbari] had hit [Majors] earlier, the way she was fighting and the sounds produced,” Sarwar said.
If Majors is convicted of the three misdemeanor counts of assault and harassment, he could face up to a year in jail.
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