{"id":836666,"date":"2026-07-31T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836666\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:49:09","slug":"dylan-sprouses-shady-jared-leto-tweet-resurfaces-amid-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836666\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Sprouse\u2019s shady Jared Leto tweet resurfaces amid sexual assault allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Sprouse put Jared Leto\u2019s alleged behaviour on blast years before the actor-musician\u2019s latest sexual misconduct scandal came to light.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, Sprouse \u2014 who was newly dating his now-wife, model Barbara Palvin, at the time \u2014<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dylansprouse\/status\/996630276242526208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> took to X (then Twitter)<\/a> to post, \u201cYo (Jared Leto) now that you\u2019ve slid into the dm\u2019s (sic) of every female model aged 18-25, what would you say your success rate is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Suite Life of Zack &amp; Cody star was 25, Palvin was 24 \u2014 and Leto was 46.<\/p>\n<p>Director James Gunn, who was 51 at the time, entered the chat and replied in a since-deleted comment, \u201cHe starts at 18 on the internet?\u201d seemingly accusing Leto of seeking out underage girls.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesmen for Sprouse, Palvin and Gunn did not immediately respond to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/31\/celebrity-news\/dylan-sprouse-james-gunns-shady-jared-leto-tweets-resurface-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page Six<\/a>\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>However, Leto branded the new claims \u201cabsolutely and categorically false\u201d earlier this week, insisting to us in a statement, \u201cI have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The denial was in response to the disturbing allegations made in the BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret, which featured accounts from 10 women detailing traumatic sexual encounters \u2014 including assault \u2014 with the now-54-year-old between 2002 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the ten even alleged they were underage at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also featured interviews with two men who previously worked with Leto\u2019s band, 30 Seconds to Mars. The men said they and others were uncomfortable with the frontman\u2019s alleged interactions with teenage girls, including inviting them backstage, to his dressing room and to his home.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations dropped about a year after Leto\u2019s alleged actions first made headlines.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 2025 expos\u00e9, nine women accused the Oscar winner of inappropriate sexual behaviour, with many being underage at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Leto \u2014 who has also leaned into bizarre \u201ccult\u201d affiliations over the years \u2014 \u201cexpressly denied\u201d those claims, too.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/31\/celebrity-news\/dylan-sprouse-james-gunns-shady-jared-leto-tweets-resurface-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Sprouse put Jared Leto\u2019s alleged behaviour on blast years before the actor-musician\u2019s latest sexual misconduct scandal came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[408711,408723,408726,408727,408713,408739,408725,393158,408732,408721,39187,408748,408733,295116,84046,130065,349899,408745,157394,408750,376435,408742,376769,408753,376925,91092,24278,64,63,408712,408741,408724,408717,207930,379476,134,408715,408728,408749,408719,408743,1973,355825,5296,5605,122860,407207,2725,381118,408744,408736,408708,163377,408740,408729,37542,136930,391259,4031,196073,408710,408746,401465,408751,408738,399219,35935,380433,408730,408747,393148,376557,408720,408709,376539,408722,408731,380074,408707,408716,408737,13323,408714,408718,408735,408734,408752],"class_list":["post-836666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-the-denial","tag-s-alleged-actions","tag-s-alleged-behaviour","tag-s-alleged-interactions","tag-s-band","tag-s-dark-secret","tag-s-latest-sexual-misconduct-scandal","tag-s-requests","tag-s-shady-jared-leto-tweet","tag-10-women","tag-39187","tag-18-25","tag-2002-and-2016-four","tag-295116","tag-84046","tag-130065","tag-30-seconds","tag-46-director","tag-157394","tag-a-june-2025-expose","tag-a-series","tag-a-since-deleted-comment","tag-a-statement","tag-a-tweet","tag-a-year","tag-accounts","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bizarre-cult-affiliations","tag-blast-years","tag-comment-however","tag-disturbing-allegations","tag-dylan-sprouse","tag-earlier-this-week","tag-entertainment","tag-every-female-model","tag-headlines-in","tag-his-dressing-room","tag-his-home-the-revelations","tag-his-now-wife","tag-hollywood","tag-inappropriate-sexual-behaviour","tag-interviews","tag-james-gunn","tag-jared-leto","tag-leto","tag-mars","tag-may-2018","tag-model-barbara-palvin","tag-my-entire-life","tag-nine-women","tag-page-six","tag-palvin","tag-palvin-and-gunn","tag-response","tag-sexual-assault-allegations","tag-sprouse","tag-star","tag-teenage-girls","tag-the-actor-musician","tag-the-bbc-documentary-jared-leto","tag-the-chat","tag-the-disturbing-allegations","tag-the-dm","tag-the-frontman","tag-the-internet","tag-the-men","tag-the-new-claims","tag-the-now-54-year-old","tag-the-oscar-winner","tag-the-spotlight","tag-the-suite-life","tag-the-ten","tag-the-time","tag-the-time-leto","tag-the-time-the-documentary","tag-the-years","tag-those-claims","tag-too-this-article","tag-traumatic-sexual-encounters","tag-twitter","tag-two-men","tag-underage-girls-spokesmen","tag-yo","tag-your-success-rate","tag-zack-cody-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836666","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=836666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}