Jared Leto, the American actor and lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars, has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women in a new BBC documentary. The women claim the offences occurred when they were teenagers.
Leto is an Academy Award winning actor known for roles in Suicide Squad, Dallas Buyers Club and the recent Masters of the Universe, among others.
In Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, 10 women come forward with allegations against the actor.
One of the women said she was sexually assaulted in a motel bathroom when she was 17 years old. Another said she was threatened with sexual assault by Leto when she was 19. One woman said she had sex with the actor in California when she was 17 years old — an act classified as statutory rape given that the legal age is 18 in the state — and that Leto “shrugged off” a conversation about the age of consent. A fourth woman described being groomed by Leto, who she claims made several sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16 and suggested they should have sex.
Four other women also told the BBC that they had received strange and often very sexual phone calls from the actor when they were younger.
