The Met Gala 2023 guest list is still tightly under wraps, but there’s one star who definitely won’t be on the red carpet.
Jonathan Majors and Valentino have “mutually agreed” the actor will not attend fashion’s biggest night as one of its guests following his arrest on domestic violence charges, Deadline reported Monday.
Set to take place on May 1, this year’s gala will honor the legacy of late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Dua Lipa, Roger Federer, Michaela Coel and Penélope Cruz will co-chair the event alongside Vogue’s Anna Wintour.
Neither Majors’ lawyer nor representatives from Valentino immediately returned Pvnew Style’s request for comment.
The trade publication also confirmed via multiple sources that both Majors’ longtime management company, Entertainment 360, and his PR firm, The Lede Company, have dropped the “Creed III” actor after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend in New York City.
According to Deadline, the star has already wrapped filming for Season 2 of the Disney+ series “Loki,” in which he plays supervillain Kang the Conquerer, and there have been “zero conversations” about dropping him from Marvel’s yet-to-be-filmed “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” movie.
Majors, 33, was arrested in late March for multiple counts of harassment and assault after allegedly choking his girlfriend.
“He’s done nothing wrong. We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up,” read a statement from his now-former PR rep shared shortly after the arrest.
The “Devotion” star’s attorney, Priya Chaudhry, told Pvnew in a statement that the 30-year-old woman at the center of the case sent the actor several text messages after his arrest “admitting that she was the one who used physical force against him.”
In screenshots of the messages shared with Pvnew, the woman says she told authorities “point blank” that strangulation “did not occur,” but did reference a “fight” the two had prior to her injuries in which she claims it was her “fault” for “trying to grab” his phone.
