Jared Leto is dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct from a number of girls, together with some who had been teenagers on the time.
The Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman has been accused of inappropriate behaviour by 9 girls over a interval of twenty years.
These claims contain alleged victims who say they had been youngsters when the incidents occurred.
In keeping with an exposé revealed by Air Mail, the matter has ‘been an open secret for a very long time.’
Representatives for the 53-year-old Home of Gucci star have denied all of the accusations to the publication.
The claims in opposition to Leto resurfaced after a Los Angeles-based DJ, Allie Teilz, re-shared a put up on Fb from 2012 to her Instagram Story.
In it, the 30-year-old alleged she was assaulted by the star when she was 17.
She alleges that Leto ‘knew’ how outdated she was however ‘didn’t care’.
‘You’re probably not in LA till Jared Leto tries to pressure himself on you backstage… in a kilt… And a snow hat,’ she wrote.
‘I used to be assaulted and traumatized by this creep after I was 17.’
Teilz additionally described Leto’s actions as ‘predatory, terrifying and unacceptable.’
An unnamed alleged second sufferer additionally advised Air Mail that she was 16 when Leto briefly spoke together with her at Urth Caffé in LA.
Going down in 2006, she alleges he bought her telephone quantity and known as her days later. Throughout the name, she says he sounded ‘bizarre’.
‘I don’t know if he was on medication or what… it was the weirdest, grossest voice… [but] for me, it’s Jared, you understand?’
Claiming they’d communicate on the telephone late at night time, she says their conversations grew to become ‘sexual’, with Leto asking if she’d ‘ever had a boyfriend’ and questions corresponding to, ‘Have you ever ever sucked a d**ok?’
A 3rd accuser, Laura La Rue, 33, says she met Leto in 2008 at an animal rights occasion.
On the time, he was 36 and she or he was 16. She says Leto requested what her age was, to which she responded.
Regardless of figuring out she was 16, she claims Leto nonetheless requested for her telephone quantity, later inviting her over to his residence in LA.
There, he allegedly ‘flirted’ with and ‘teased’ her the ‘entire time’.
The mannequin additionally claims that Leto was absolutely bare at one level and walked into the room as if it had been ‘regular’.
‘I assumed possibly this was simply what grownup males do.’
A fourth lady, additionally nameless, has mentioned Leto approached her at an 18+ membership when she was 20, the place his assistant requested for her quantity.
She mentioned they ‘hook[ed] up somewhat’ on the nightclub and she or he visited his residence a number of occasions afterwards.
Echoing the second sufferer’s descriptions, she additionally mentioned Leto was ‘bizarre’.
‘I do know some persons are kinky, and that’s wonderful,’ she reasoned, however mentioned ‘his form of kink … simply didn’t really feel proper.’
Moreover, a fifth alleged sufferer has mentioned she and Leto exchanged flirtatious messages whereas she was underage.
She allegedly additionally visited his residence, the place he would ask her questions of a sexual nature, together with, ‘Do any of the little boys you hang around with f**ok you?’
After she turned 18, their relationship was allegedly taken to a different degree.
At one level, Leto is alleged to have ‘pulled his penis out and began masturbating’.
She says he put her hand on his penis and advised her: ‘I need you to spit on it.’
Within the unique Air Mail piece, it’s claimed that Leto was ‘recognized’ for taking an curiosity in youthful girls.
One lady advised the outlet: ‘I bear in mind being so bodily unwell to the purpose of throwing up after I handed billboards … for his movies, and simply questioning how everyone in LA is aware of.’
A rep for Leto mentioned to Air Mail: ‘Their (the ladies’s) communications comprise nothing sexual or inappropriate and Ms. La Rue later utilized to work as Mr. Leto’s private assistant, additional underscoring the absence of something inappropriate in any of their interactions.’
La Rue denies ever making use of to be Leto’s PA.
The actor’s publicist additionally defends that he ‘has not had a drink or used medication in over 35 years’, following claims that he hosted events at his mansion attended by roughly 60 ‘very younger girls to 4 or 5 males’.
It’s claimed company had been inspired to go skinny dipping on the occasions.
Leto, now an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner, first achieved recognition in 1994 for his function as Jordan Catalano within the teen drama tv sequence My So-Known as Life.
He went on to have supporting roles in Struggle Membership (1999), Woman, Interrupted (1999), and American Psycho (2000), earlier than turning his focus to music.
Leto returned to appearing with the 2002 thriller Panic Room and had subsequent roles in main blockbusters Suicide Squad (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
In the meantime, in 1998, he shaped Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band that has gone on to promote 15million information worldwide.
Relationship-wise, Leto was married to actress Cameron Diaz from 1999 to 2003, adopted by Russian mannequin Valery Kaufman from 2015 to 2022.
Reps for Jared Leto have been contacted for remark.
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