Los Angeles: Four women have accused Jared Leto of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers, claims that the actor and musician has denied, saying he has “never sexually assaulted anyone.”
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false,” Leto, 54, said in a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The BBC documentary ‘Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret’, released Wednesday, details allegations from four women who accused the actor of sexual misconduct between 2002 and 2016, when they were teenagers and Leto was an adult.
One woman said she was 17 when she was sexually assaulted, while another said Leto committed statutory rape when she was also 17.
One woman said she was 19 when Leto threatened her with sexual assault, while another said she was 16 when Leto made sexually explicit phone calls and propositioned her.
The BBC said it corroborated the women's accounts, which could not be independently verified by the AP. The documentary does not identify the women by their full names.
The BBC said Leto did not respond to its attempts to seek comment for the documentary.
Leto was also accused of misconduct by nine women who spoke to Air Mail for a story published last year. A representative for Leto denied those allegations at the time.
Leto, an Oscar winner for his supporting role in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, is also the frontman of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He recently starred as Skeletor in ‘Masters of the Universe’.
