NEW YORK — Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a yearlong counseling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s career.

The 34-year-old star of “Creed III” had faced up to a year behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault by a Manhattan jury in December.

In court Monday, Majors was sentenced to conditional discharge. The judge noted the charges did not warrant jail time, given the actor was a first time offender.

Majors must complete a 52-week, in-person batterer’s intervention program in Los Angeles, where he lives, and continue with the mental health therapy his lawyers say he's been participating in. Majors faces a year in jail if found in violation of the terms, which also included a no contact order with his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.

Majors, accompanied by his girlfriend, actor Meagan Good, declined to address the court or speak to reporters.

His lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, said the actor did not want to make any public statement that Jabbari could use against him in the civil suit she’s filed against the actor.

Majors, she added, is “committed to growing as a person” and will complete any court-mandated programs “with an open heart” even as he maintains his innocence and plans to appeal.

“He’s lost his whole career,” Chaudhry said in court. “This has been the most challenging year of his life.”

But Jabbari said Majors refuses to acknowledge his guilt and is a danger to those around him. “He’s not sorry; he has not accepted responsibility, ” she said.

The conviction stemmed from an altercation in which Jabbari accused him of attacking her in the backseat of a car, saying he hit her head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until it fractured.

Majors claimed Jabbari was the aggressor, flying into a jealous rage after reading a text message from another woman on his phone.

Following his guilty verdict, Majors was dropped by Marvel Studios, which had cast him as Kang the Conqueror. It is unclear whether Marvel will recast the role or go in a new direction.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music singer Morgan Wallen has been arrested after police say he threw a chair off the rooftop of a newly opened six-story bar in downtown Nashville.

Wallen, 30, was booked into jail early Monday on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, Metro Nashville Police tweeted.

The charges stem from a chair being thrown from the rooftop of Chief’s bar and landing on Broadway near two police officers.

An arrest affidavit says the chair landed about 3 feet (1 meter) from officers, who talked to witnesses and reviewed security footage. Witnesses told officers that they watched Wallen pick up a chair, throw it over the roof and laugh about it.

Wallen's attorney, Worrick Robinson, confirmed the arrest late Sunday and said the singer was cooperating fully with authorities. He was released from custody, and has a court date scheduled May 3.

Wallen is one of the biggest names in contemporary country. His third studio album, 2023’s “One Thing at a Time,” was the most-consumed album in the U.S. last year, spending 16 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200.

In 2021, the country singer was suspended indefinitely from his label and saw his music pulled by radio stations and streaming services after video surfaced of him shouting a racial slur. As a result, he was disqualified from some award shows and received no Grammy nominations for his bestselling “Dangerous: The Double Album.”

In 2020, he was arrested on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges in Nashville.

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Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher announced their divorce on Instagram Friday amid ongoing controversy regarding claims made by actress Rebel Wilson.

The “Borat” co-writer, 52, and “Wedding Crashers” star, 48, said, “We forever share in our devotion and love for our children,” referring to daughters Olive, 16, and Elula, 13, and son Montgomery, 9. The former couple got engaged in 2004 and married in 2011.

News of the divorce comes amid Rebel Wilson identifying Cohen as the “massive (expletive)” central to the 23rd chapter of her memoir, “Rebel Rising,” which was released last week.

“I will not be bullied or silenced by high-priced lawyers or PR crisis managers,” Wilson, 44, said in on Instagram.

She accused Cohen of pressuring her into performing inappropriate acts while working on “The Brothers Grimsby,” which Cohen’s reps denied.

When previously unreleased footage of the actors’ sex scene was published days later by the Daily Mail, Wilson dubbed it Cohen’s “latest way of bullying and gaslighting me.”

From combined wire reports