
Jared Leto denies sexual misconduct after facing accusations from multiple women
Jared Leto has been accused of 'inappropriateness' by a number of women in a report. The 53-year-old American singer and actor has been in the spotlight since the early 1990s.
He has had roles in iconic TV shows including My So-Called Life and WeCrashed, films including Blade Runner 2049 and Dallas Buyers Club, and as the frontman of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Having been regarded as a Hollywood and chart heartthrob around the world, the star is now facing damaging accusations - which a spokesperson has denied.
An investigation by Air Mail magazine - a luxury lifestyle outlet edited by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter - has claimed nine women have accused the star "behaving inappropriately" when they were in their teens.
One woman claims the actor approached her in a Los Angeles cafe in 2006 when she was 16 and asked for her number. She claims he then called her "in the middle of the night" and tried to get her to attend a party - which she says she declined, adding: "I didn't even have a driver's license."
The woman claims he then called her regularly for the following three weeks, allegedly "Always at one, two, three A.M" and claims the conversations: "Turned sexual. He'd ask things like, 'Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a d**k?''
A second woman claims he also approached her when she was 16 and acquired her number claims his conversations would occasionally be "flirtatious" - and that he once walked out in front of her completely naked when she was 17 when she was at his home.
A third, described as having an "on-off affair" with the star claimed: 'He'd be sweet, then suddenly really demeaning. It was a switch.'
A further woman alleges that the star exposed himself to her when she was at his home and "started masturbating" when she was 18. She claims he told her: "I want you to spit on it."
The Air Mail article accuses Leto of approaching younger women and claims it was "known" in Hollywood that he liked younger women. Another woman told the publication: ' I remember being so physically ill to the point of throwing up when I passed billboards … for his films,' one woman tells me, 'and just wondering how everybody in L.A. knows.'
The Mirror has contacted Leto's representatives for comment. While Air Mail adds that a representative of the star denied all allegations made against him in their report.
Leto was once engaged to actress Cameron Diaz - who he was in a relationship with from 1999 until 2003. They were engaged in 2000 until their split three years later.
He later dated Russian model Valery Kaufman from 2015 to 2022. He has never married - and has been romantically linked to a number of women in the past, including Scarlett Johansson and Paris Hilton.
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