Four more women accuse Jared Leto of sexual harassment
A BBC documentary collects new testimony from victims who claim to have suffered abuse when they were minors
BarcelonaFour women have accused actor and singer Jared Leto of sexual harassment when they were minors. This is reported by the BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s dark secret, which will be broadcast this Tuesday evening. The victims claim to have suffered rape, calls with explicit language, and threats. The documentary gathers a total of ten testimonies that corroborate the accusations against the Oscar winner for Dallas Buyers Club (2013). The assaults allegedly took place between 2002 and 2016, when the actor was in his thirties and the victims were still adolescents.
In the documentary, a first victim explains that she was assaulted in a motel when she was only 17 years old. Another of the affected individuals alleges that the Hollywood star threatened to sexually assault her when she was 19, after being left alone with him in a hotel room. A third victim states that she had sexual relations with the actor when she was only 17 years old, and that Leto asked her to refer to him as "daddy". The last woman claims that, when she was only 16 years old, the actor harassed her with phone calls in which Leto proposed sexual relations.
These accusations are joined by those of four women who claim to have received "strange" calls from Leto, with some sexual content, when they were younger. Another witness explains that, at 14 years old, the actor invited her to his dressing room and made inappropriate comments about her breasts. The report also includes statements from two men who worked with Leto's band and his brother, 30 Seconds to Mars. The testimonies confirm the actor's uncomfortable way of interacting with adolescent girls. Jared Leto denied the accusations in a statement: "I have not sexually harassed anyone in my life. The allegations are absolutely and categorically false".
A total of 120 accusations
According to the BBC, there are more than 120 complaints against the actor online regarding his behavior with fans. The victims in the BBC report are in addition to "the nine women who last year accused Leto of inappropriate sexual behavior in an article inAir Mail. The star of "Suicide Squad (2016) responded to the accusations by stating that "their communications were not sexual or inappropriate." However, the authors of the BBC report claim to have seen photographs and messages that support the women's testimony.