Jared Leto accused of sexual misconduct and 'predatory, terrifying' behaviour by nine women

Oscar-winning American character and Thirty Seconds From Mars frontman Jared Leto has been accused of intersexual misconduct by 9 women. 

In a study published by Air Mail, aggregate women accused nan 53-year-old prima of Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad of inappropriate behaviour.

The allegations day backmost to nan early 2000s, pinch 1 female calling it “an unfastened secret” that he texted intersexual remarks to teenage models. 

Allegations against Leto emerged past month, erstwhile DJ Allie Teilz shared an aged Facebook post, written successful 2012, connected her Instagram Story. 

“Youre [sic] not really successful L.A. until Jared Leto tries to unit himself connected you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snowfall hat. I was assaulted and traumatized by this creep erstwhile I was 17,” she wrote. In abstracted story, she added: “He knew my property and didn’t care. What he did was predatory, terrifying and unacceptable.” 

One female told nan publication that successful 2006, erstwhile she was 16-years-old, Leto approached her extracurricular a Los Angeles café. She claimed Leto was sat pinch chap character Ashley Olsen – who was past 19 – and he had grabbed her arm. 

“I looked down and it was Jared Leto,” she told Air Mail, adding: “We had a speedy conversation, and he sewage my number.” She went connected to opportunity that Leto called her location a fewer days later, recalling: “I don’t cognize if he was connected narcotics aliases what … It was nan weirdest, grossest sound … [but] for me, it’s Jared, you know?” 

“And nan conversations turned sexual,” she continued. “He’d inquire things like: ‘Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a dick?’” 

Model Laura La Rue came guardant pinch akin claims, saying that erstwhile she was 16-years-old successful 2008, she was astatine an arena successful a backstage residence successful Beverly Hills wherever Leto was “watching her truthful intensely”. 

“He asked really aged I was. I said, ‘I’m 16. How aged are you?’” La Rue told Air Mail. Leto, who was 36 astatine nan time, past reportedly asked for her number. The 2 began an email correspondence, which resulted successful her visiting Leto’s location successful April 2009, nan outlet alleges. 

“I retrieve him teasing maine nan full clip I was there,” La Rue said, adding: “He was flirting pinch me. He’d thin successful close, past propulsion away, for illustration it was a game.” 

She described a abstracted sojourn erstwhile she was 17 years old, wherever she alleged Leto walked retired of a room wholly naked. “He conscionable walked out, dick out, for illustration it was normal… I thought possibly this was conscionable what big men do,” she said. 

Another female who said to nan outlet said that she and Leto began texting while she was still underage. She alleged he would inquire her inappropriate questions during her visits to his house, including “Do immoderate of nan small boys you bent retired pinch fuck you?” 

The female alleged that once, erstwhile she was 18, Leto had “suddenly pulled his penis retired and started masturbating”. She told Air Mail: “He walked over, grabbed my hand, and put it connected him. He leaned successful and said: ‘I want you to spit connected it.’” 

A typical of Leto has “expressly denied” nan aggregate accusations reported successful the Air Mail exposé, saying nan claims were “demonstrably false”. 

This is not nan first clip that Leto’s behaviour has been questioned and called out.  

Similar claims were made successful 2005, when The New York Post shared a communicative pinch nan opening line: “Jared Leto likes ’em young” aft he had been spotted pinch Olsen and Lindsay Lohan. At nan time, sources told nan publication he had been “aggressively pursuing galore of nan teen models shacked up astatine nan Maritime Hotel”. 

In 2018, Metro reported connected a Twitter station made by Dylan Sprouse, who is joined to exemplary Barbara Palvin. The station read: “Yo @JaredLeto now that you’ve slid into nan DMs of each female exemplary aged 18–25, what would you opportunity your occurrence complaint is?” 

Guardians Of The Galaxy and Superman director James Gunn replied to Sprouse’s tweet astatine nan time, saying: “He starts astatine 18 connected nan internet?”

Additional sources • Air Mail, NY Post, Metro