Jonathan Majors: Creed III actor arrested on assault charges

Creed III histrion Jonathan Majors has been arrested connected strangulation, battle and harassment charges.

The New York Police Department said Majors, who stars alongside Michael B Jordan successful the precocious released film, was progressive successful a home quality with a 30-year-old pistillate connected Saturday.

"The unfortunate informed constabulary she was assaulted," a constabulary spokesperson said.

Majors was concisely taken into custody. A typical for the 33-year-old histrion denied immoderate wrongdoing.

The NYPD said they were called astir 11:14 section clip aft receiving a 911 telephone from an flat successful Manhattan's Chelsea district.

They added the pistillate suffered insignificant caput and cervix injuries and was taken to hospital.

He was released from custody by Saturday night, an NYPD spokesperson told the Associated Press quality agency.

A typical for the histrion told the LA Times: "He has done thing wrong. We look guardant to clearing his sanction and clearing this up."

Majors' apprehension comes conscionable weeks aft the histrion presented an grant astatine the Oscars.

His vocation took disconnected aft breaking done successful 2019's The Last Black Man successful San Francisco, earlier going onto to prima successful Netflix occidental The Harder They Fall and Marvel Comics movie Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.

Majors plays Jordan's adversary successful Creed III, a boxing movie released earlier this month.