Jared Leto denies sexual assault allegations from multiple women in new documentary

Jared Leto has denied the sexual misconduct allegations made against him in a new BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret.

Four women have accused the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers, and he has since responded that the allegations are “categorically false.” 

“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false,” Leto, 54, said in a statement.

The documentary, which was released on Wednesday, details allegations including those from four women who accused Leto of sexual misconduct and assault between 2002 and 2016. 

The women, identified with “Isabel,” “Alex,” “Clara” and “Etta” pseudonyms, claimed they were teenagers at the time, and Leto was an adult. 

The first alleged incident took place in 2002 when Isabel was 17. She claimed Leto sexually assaulted her in a motel bathroom. 

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Clara claimed that Leto allegedly had sex with her in 2006, when she was 17. The actor allegedly threatened Alex with sexual assault in a hotel room. 

Etta claimed Leto groomed her when she was 16. She claimed she received sexually explicit phonecalls from the star and that he propositioned her.

There were 10 women in total who made allegations against Leto in the documentary.

Elsewhere in the documentary, men who worked with Leto’s band alleged that staffers were not comfortable with his “way too big … age gap” with girls he allegedly invited backstage.

The BBC said it corroborated the women’s accounts in the documentary, and according to them, Leto did not respond to its attempts to seek comment. 

The claims against Leto from the documentary come a year after he was accused of misconduct by nine women who spoke to Air Mail for a story. 

A representative for Leto denied the allegations at the time. 

Leto, the frontman for the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, is also an actor. 

He won an Oscar for his supporting role in Dallas Buyers Club in 2014 and more recently starred as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe.