Jared Leto denies sexual misconduct accusations from nine women

Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, allegations representatives for the singer have denied.

In a report published by Air Mail on Friday (June 6), multiple women accused the 53-year-old actor and musician of inappropriate behaviour. The allegations date back to the early 2000s, with one woman calling it “an open secret” that he texted sexual remarks to teenage models.

Allegations against the Thirty Seconds to Mars singer emerged last month, when Los Angeles based DJ Allie Teilz shared on old Facebook post of hers, written in 2012, on her Instagram Story.

“Youre [sic] not really in L.A. until Jared Leto tries to force himself on you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snow hat. I was assaulted and traumatized by this creep when I was 17,” she wrote. “I was assaulted and traumatized by this creep when I was 17,” she added in separate story. “He knew my age and didn’t care. What he did was predatory, terrifying and unacceptable.”

A representative of Leto has “expressly denied” the multiple accusations reported in the Air Mail expose – including Teilz’s – with the representative saying the claims were “demonstrably false”.

One woman told the publication that in 2006, at which time she was 16-years-old, Leto approached her outside a Los Angeles café. She claimed the Suicide Squad actor was sat with fellow actor Ashley Olsen – who was then 19 – and he had grabbed her arm.

“I looked down and it was Jared Leto,” she told Air Mail, adding: “We had a quick conversation, and he got my number.” She went on to say that Leto called her home a few days later, recalling: “I don’t know if he was on drugs or what … It was the weirdest, grossest voice … [but] for me, it’s Jared, you know?”

After the accuser speculated that he was either drinking or doing drugs when making these calls, Leto’s rep said he has has been sober for more than 35 years (via The Independent).

The woman went on to say Leto was hosting a party at his house that evening and had he invited her, which she declined. “I didn’t even have a driver’s license,” she said, explaining that despite that, Leto kept calling her, “always at one, two, three AM”.

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

Model Laura La Rue came forward with similar claims, saying that when she was 16-years-old in 2008, she was at an event in a private residence in Beverly Hills where Leto was “watching her so intensely”.

“He asked how old I was. I said, ‘I’m 16. How old are you?’” La Rue told Air Mail. The Fight Club star, who was 36 at the time, then reportedly asked for her number. The two began an email correspondence, which resulted in her visiting Leto’s home in April 2009, the outlet alleges.

“I remember him teasing me the whole time I was there,” La Rue said, adding: “He was flirting with me. He’d lean in close, then pull away, like it was a game.”

In a statement to Air Mail, a representative of Leto said: “Their communications contain nothing sexual or inappropriate … and Ms La Rue later applied to work as Mr Leto’s personal assistant, further underscoring the absence of anything inappropriate in any of their interactions.”

The publication reported that La Rue denies ever applying for a personal assistant role. She described a separate visit when she was 17-years-old, where she alleged Leto walked out of a room completely naked. “He just walked out, dick out, like it was normal … I thought maybe this was just what adult men do,” she said.

Another woman who spoke to the outlet said that she and Leto began texting while she was still underage. She alleged he would ask her inappropriate questions during her visits to his house, including “Do any of the little boys you hang out with fuck you?”

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

Back in 2018, the Metro reported on a Twitter post made by Banana Split star Dylan Sprouse, who is married to model Barbara Palvin. The post read: “Yo @JaredLeto now that you’ve slid into the DMs of every female model aged 18–25, what would you say your success rate is?”

Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn replied to Sprouse’s tweet at the time, saying: “He starts at 18 on the internet?”

Similar claims were made in 2005, when The New York Post shared a story with the opening line: “Jared Leto likes ’em young” after he had been spotted with Olsen and Lindsay Lohan. At the time, sources told the publication he had been ” aggressively pursuing many of the teen models shacked up at the Maritime Hotel”.

NME has contacted Leto’s representatives for further comment.

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