Jared Leto has told The Hollywood Reporter he has “never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life” amid sexual misconduct claims from multiple women in a new BBC documentary.
In a short statement given to THR via his team on Wednesday, Leto said: “I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”
Earlier in the day, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret dropped bombshell claims against the Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars rocker from 10 different women, including allegations from four women who accuse Leto of criminal sexual conduct. These incidents, the women say, occurred when they were teenagers.
They allege their encounters with the now-54-year-old took place between 2002 and 2016. In the BBC report, one of the women says she was sexually assaulted by the actor and musician in a motel bathroom when she was 17.
A different woman says she had sex with him when she was 17 in California, a state where the act is classified as statutory rape. He “shrugged off” concerns about the state’s age of consent, according to the BBC investigation.
