{"id":719806,"date":"2026-07-30T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:40:10","slug":"jared-leto-claims-a-bellwether-for-metoo-in-hollywood-bbc-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719806\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto Claims A “Bellwether” For MeToo In Hollywood: BBC Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Hollywood\u2019s response to the criminal sexual conduct allegations against Jared Leto<\/a> will be revealing of where the industry stands on the MeToo movement. That\u2019s the view of Mike Radford, the executive producer behind Jared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret, the explosive BBC<\/a> documentary about the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club star.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary, which premiered without any pre-publicity on Wednesday, detailed the experiences of 10 women, four of whom accused Leto of criminal sexual conduct. Leto has denied the allegations. \u201cI have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Deadline, Radford said: \u201cThe Jared Leto case is a bellwether on where we are on the MeToo movement. There has been a lot of pushback in that area, and how the industry responds to the allegations about Jared Leto will tell us where the industry \u2014 both music and film \u2014 stands when serious allegations are made against one of their most powerful people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe BBC\u2019s documentary is not the first time Leto has faced claims of misconduct. Allegations about Leto first took flight last year when Los Angeles DJ Allie Teilz posted on Instagram saying she had been assaulted by the actor when she was 17. This led to a report in U.S. media outlet Air Mail last year, in which nine women accused Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe report did not stop Leto from promoting Tron: Ares for Disney, but he was noticeably absent from the publicity campaign for Masters of the Universe, including not showing up at the premiere of the Amazon movie. His band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, is scheduled to tour next year.<\/p>\n

\n\tJessica Sartenaer, who produced and presents Jared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret, said allegations about Leto have bubbled away on the internet for years. The BBC has counted 120 separate accusations made online relating to his behavior towards women.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJared Leto attends the world premiere of Disney\u2019s \u2018Tron: Ares\u2019 at the TCL Chinese Theater<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople haven\u2019t been paying attention,\u201d Sartenaer told Deadline. She hopes this will change after the interest in Jared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret, which is being distributed internationally by BBC Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel like it will be very difficult for him to ride this one out. People are 1785447610 really paying attention, and I just don\u2019t see how he could be attached to another Hollywood project. However, I think his music career is maybe separate from that. He\u2019s still got some diehard Thirty Seconds to Mars fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSartenaer began work on the BBC documentary last year after development producer Harry Pick spotted Teilz\u2019s post on Instagram. Radford, who works in the BBC\u2019s current affairs unit, took the project under his wing, having overseen similar documentaries, including Tim Westwood, Abuse of Power and Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods. The Leto film was directed by Alice McShane, whose credits include Russell Brand: In Plain Sight. Radford said the BBC\u2019s public funding makes it uniquely well-positioned to shoulder lengthy journalistic investigations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were really fortunate to have had that amount of time,\u201d Sartenaer said. \u201cThese investigations are about building trust with people, with contributors, with sources. They are entrusting you with their most personal stories, something they have carried with them for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRadford said the stories of Clara and Isabel (both pseudonyms) were important to getting the documentary over the line. Clara described how in 2006 she had sex with Leto at his home in California when she was 17, which would be classified as statutory rape in the state. Isabel, who appears on camera in the BBC film, alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Leto in Las Vegas in 2002.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey gave Leto and his representatives more than two weeks to respond to the allegations, but they did not reply to the BBC\u2019s requests for comment. Leto only issued his denial hours after the documentary was released \u2014 and even then, the statement was not shared with Radford, Sartenaer, and the team.<\/p>\n

\n\tSartenaer said: \u201cThe courage of the women who have come forward for this investigation is just immeasurable, coming up against a very powerful man like Leto. I do think what they have done will empower many other women to speak their truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood\u2019s response to the criminal sexual conduct allegations against Jared Leto will be revealing of where the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243,96,59,16717,238117,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-jared-leto","tag-masters-of-the-univerese","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}