Jared Leto Accused Of Sexual Misconduct By 4 Women Who Were Teens: BBC

Actor and singer Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women while they were teenagers in a new BBC documentary, “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret.”

One woman identified as Etta told the BBC that she met Leto in 2014 when she was 16 and Leto was 42. She said Leto approached her outside a modelling agency in Los Angeles and they exchanged contact info. The phone conversations quickly went from industry talk to talking about sex, she told the BBC.

Another woman, identified as Isabel, said she met Leto in 2002 in a Las Vegas mall when she was 17 and and he was 30. She told the BBC he invited her to his hotel, which she described as “dingy.” Once she was there, she said, Leto got in the shower and called her over. She alleged that he then opened the shower curtain and started kissing her. He grabbed her hand and used it to touch himself, she said.

“Alarms started going off in my head, like, ‘What are you doing here? This is not what you came here for,’” Isabel told the BBC. “I pulled away and was like, ‘OK, I’m going to go.’”

She said she went home and looked him up and learned he was in his early 30s.

One woman told the BBC that she had sex with Leto when she was 17 and he “shrugged off” a conversation about the age of consent. Another woman alleged that when she was 19, Leto threatened her with sexual assault.

The BBC reported that four other women said they received “strange and often very sexual phone calls” from the actor.

“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” Leto said Wednesday in a statement to HuffPost about the allegations in the documentary. “These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”

Someone named Simon, who worked with Leto’s band 30 Seconds to Mars for a decade, told the BBC that he witnessed Leto inviting a lot of young girls to a house where the band was recording. He said he remembered one instance when a girl’s parents dropped her off. He said Leto and the girl went to a bedroom and, when they returned, there was a feeling of shame and embarrassment in the air.

“I just remember being really moved by it,” Simon told the BBC.

A total of 10 women told the BBC about their experiences with Leto; nine of them were talking about their allegations for the first time.

About a year ago, Air Mail published a report featuring nine women accusing Leto of sexual misconduct dating back to 2006. Leto, now 54, denied the allegations.