American actor Jonathan Majors, a rising Hollywood star, was arrested in Manhattan on charges of assaulting a 30-year-old woman, New York police said on Sunday, according to AFP and Reuters.

American police said in a press release that they responded to a call received by emergency services on Saturday morning and that at the end of the preliminary investigation, they determined that “a 33-year-old man was involved in a domestic crime. dispute with a 30-year-old woman.”

The woman, who told police she was assaulted and is not related to the Hollywood actor, was taken to hospital for treatment of minor head and neck injuries and is in “stable condition”, according to the same source.

The actor’s publicist, Kerry Gordon, said in a statement published in the Los Angeles Times that the actor “has done nothing wrong.”

She hopes the star can “rehabilitate her name” as soon as possible, while the actor’s lawyer Priya Chaudhry, quoted by local media, said she was “gathering evidence to quickly present to the district attorney in the hope that all charges will be dropped.” .

US judicial authorities have not yet responded to AFP’s request for comment on the matter, but according to US media, the actor has been released and is scheduled to appear before a judge on May 8.

Jonathan Majors recently rose to fame after starring in two big-budget films, Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum of Solace. He can now be seen in North American cinemas and in the feature film “Dream Journal”, recently presented at the Sundance Festival, organized in the US state of Utah.

After Saturday’s incident, the US Army decided to temporarily stop showing ads featuring actor Jonathan Majors.