Entertainment

/

ArcaMax

Jared Leto denies criminal sexual conduct with teens alleged in BBC documentary

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

Published in Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Several new accusers are alleging criminal sexual conduct by Jared Leto, just over a year after the Oscar winner denied claims of “sexual impropriety” against multiple women, as laid out in a June 2025 exposé.

Ten women speak out against 54-year-old Leto, nine of whom are reportedly doing so for the first time, in the BBC’s “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret,” which premieres Wednesday and details alleged misdeeds by the actor between 2002 and 2016.

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

Of the 10 accusers featured in the documentary, four accuse the Thirty Seconds to Mars front man of criminal sexual misconduct when they were between the ages of 16 and 19.

A woman who was 16 at the time of the alleged incidents says Leto groomed and repeatedly made sexually explicit phone calls to her, and once suggested they should have sex. She has never signed the NDA he eventually sent her, which the BBC says it’s seen.

One accuser, who uses the alias Isabel, says she was 17 when the “American Psycho” actor assaulted her in a motel bathroom.

Another woman, going by the name Clara, says she was 17 when Leto, then 34, committed statutory rape with her in California, where 18 is the age of consent — a conversation they discussed and he “shrugged off.”

“He told me, ‘I would like you to call me daddy.’ And it was either pretend to be a little girl or ‘my little girl,'” Clara told the BBC, adding that, “As time went on … I realized more and more how scary that really was.”

 

A former model, Alex, says she was 19 when she was lured by Leto’s female assistant to a London after-party. She pretended to be 17 in the hopes it would stave off Leto, though the then-41-year-old allegedly said, “Age is just a number, and anyway, we’re in Europe.” Ultimately, Alex says she and Leto ended up in a hotel room, where he threatened to sexually assault her, though she managed to get away.

The documentary also features five women who allege Leto would make “strange and often very sexual phone calls” to them. Four of them were teenagers at the time.

An accuser identified as Taylor told the BBC that she was 14, sporting braces, and attended one of Leto’s concerts with her mother in 2005. She held a T-shirt for him to sign, though he opted to do so “across my breasts,” which he then remarked on, and doubled down on even after being confronted by her mother. He’d also asked his bodyguard about taking Taylor backstage, she says.

In June 2025, AirMail published an exposé, “The Cult of Leto,” detailing the allegations of nine women who say he committed “sexual impropriety” against them. Some of the alleged incidents took place when some of the accusers were underage.

A rep for Leto at the time “expressly denied” all the allegations, which were published in the weeks after DJ and music producer Allie Teilz said she was 17 when Leto “assaulted and traumatized” her.

“He knew my age and didn’t care. What he did was predatory, terrifying and unacceptable,” wrote Teilz, who’d first come forward with her allegation in 2012.


©2026 New York Daily News. Visit nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

 

Comments

blog comments powered by Disqus