Jared Leto is denying that there’s any truth to the new accusations of sexual misconduct by four women, who all claim that their alleged encounters with the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman occurred when they were teens.
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” the actor said in a statement shared with Billboard. “These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”
His response comes after the BBC published a report on Wednesday (July 29) summarizing the allegations made in its new documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret. One of the four women who spoke to the filmmakers accused Leto of sexually assaulting her in a motel bathroom when she was 17, while another claims that she was 19 when he allegedly threatened to sexually assault her in a hotel room, in which she’d been “unexpectedly left alone” with the singer-actor.
A third woman claims Leto had sex with her when she was 17 years old, which is considered statutory rape in California, where the alleged incident took place. She said that she was up-front with the Suicide Squad actor about her age, but he allegedly “shrugged off” any concerns about the state’s age of consent.
The fourth woman highlighted in the report accused Leto of making lewd comments to her in repeated phone calls when she was 16, at one point allegedly expressing his desire to have sex with her. She claims that he or his team later sent her a non-disclosure agreement to sign, forbidding her from talking about her experiences...
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