{"id":966650,"date":"2026-07-29T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/966650\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:20:18","slug":"jared-leto-accused-of-criminal-sexual-conduct-in-bbc-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/966650\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto Accused of Criminal Sexual Conduct in BBC Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJared Leto<\/a> has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women, who claim the offenses occurred when they were teenagers.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new BBC<\/a> documentary \u201cJared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret\u201d \u2014\u00a0airing Wednesday \u2014\u00a0a total of 10 women come forward with allegations against the actor and musician, nine of whom the BBC says are sharing their stories for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the women accuses the Oscar winner of assaulting her in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another claims Leto threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19. A third in the doc describes how she allegedly had sex with Leto in California when she was 17, under the age of consent, which therefore would be classified as statutory rape. She claims the actor \u201cshrugged off\u201d a conversation about the age of consent being 18 in the state.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, a fourth women alleges Leto made repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16 and, on at least one occasion, he suggested that they should have sex.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the doc, the BBC says that it has seen an NDA that the fourth woman was asked to sign to stop her from discussing her relationship with Leto. She refused to sign the NDA. <\/p>\n

\n\tFour other women accuse Leto of making \u201cstrange and often very sexual\u201d phone calls to them when they were younger. <\/p>\n

\n\tAll the women that feature in \u201cJared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret\u201d claim the interactions occurred between 2002 and 2016, when the actor, now 54, was in his 30s and 40s.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the alleged victims said: \u201cThis was 25 years ago\u2026 he has gotten away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the BBC, it has corroborated \u201ca number of the women\u2019s accounts with friends and family who were told about the encounters with Leto at the time.\u201d It says that, in some cases, it has also seen pictures and messages that \u201csupport the women\u2019s accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo men who worked with Leto\u2019s band Thirty Seconds to Mars also spoke to the documentary and claimed staff felt uncomfortable about the way Leto would interact with teenage girls. They alleged he would sometimes invite them backstage to his dressing room or to the house where he was recording.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think everyone thought the age gap was way too big,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe allegations in \u201cJared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret\u201d aren\u2019t the first against Leto. Last year, L.A. DJ Allie Teilz publicly accused Leto of sexual misconduct, alleging he assaulted and traumatized her when she was 17 years old. It prompted others to come forward with similar claims. In a report in Air Mail in June 2025, nine women accused Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior over the years, accusations he denied.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has reached out to Leto\u2019s reps for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women, who claim the offenses occurred when…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":966651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[6531,171,7300,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-966650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-jared-leto","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117003002169015878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}