Jared Leto has denied sexual assault and misconduct after four women made allegations about the Hollywood actor and singer in a new documentary released by the BBC.<\/p>\n
In the documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, four women described encounters between 2002 and 2016 when he was in his 30s or 40s. He is now 54.<\/p>\n
In the documentary, one of the women said she was sexually assaulted in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another said the Hollywood star threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19.<\/p>\n
A third said she had underage sex with the star in California when she was 17, which would be classified as statutory rape. A fourth said Leto made sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16.<\/p>\n
Four others described “strange and often very sexual phone calls from Leto,” the BBC said.<\/p>\n
In a statement released on Wednesday afternoon, local time, Mr Leto denied the claims made in the documentary.<\/p>\n
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false,” he said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the women, Isabel, alleged she was sexually assaulted in a motel room when she was 17, while another accused him of having underage sex with her when she was 17.<\/p>\n
Another accused Mr Leto of making repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16. She subsequently refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she received, the BBC investigation found.<\/p>\n
Mr Leto is a prominent face in Hollywood, having starred in multiple films including Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad.<\/p>\n
But it is not the first time he has faced allegations about his conduct away from the camera.<\/p>\n
Last year, US outlet Air Mail reported the accounts of nine women who accused him of sexual impropriety, allegations he strenuously denied at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Leto has denied sexual assault and misconduct after four women made allegations about the Hollywood actor and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[404729,5729,64,63,189947,134,1973,122860,6671,120222,3069,12632],"class_list":["post-832074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-30-seconds-to-mars","tag-allegations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-buyers-club","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-jared-leto","tag-sexual-assault","tag-suicide-squad","tag-teenagers","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}