Jared Leto Denies Multiple Claims of Sexual Misconduct

Based on a number of sources, actor/Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls (a few of whom say that they had been underage once they started speaking to him). Representatives for Leto have denied the allegations.

The Allegations + Leto’s Representatives’ Responses

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Yesterday (June 7), Air Mail printed a bit entitled “The Cult of Leto,” which options the next subtitle: “He has acted in the whole lot from American Psycho to Home of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by 9 girls.”

It begins:

Six years in the past this summer season, Jared Leto’s followers descended on Mars Island, a personal resort off the coast of Croatia. For 3 days, followers—a lot of them younger girls, a few of them paying greater than $6,499 to be there—meditated, chanted, and lounged barefoot in caftans alongside Leto, who, along with starring in ‘American Psycho,’ ‘Struggle Membership,’ ‘Home of Gucci,’ and ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ is the entrance man of Thirty Seconds to Mars. The band known as it a “non secular retreat.” The French journal ‘L’Officiel’ known as it one thing else: “The Cult of Jared Leto.”

The remainder of the textual content is locked behind a subscription paywall, however quite a few different publications have reported on it.

Per The Guardian, “a number of girls have accused Jared Leto of impropriety, with some calling the 53-year previous actor and musician’s conduct ‘predatory, terrifying and unacceptable.’”

The Air Mail exposé specifies that 9 girls declare that Leto “engag[ed] in inappropriate conduct through the years, together with flirting with youngsters,” with one girl saying that “again in 2006, when she was 16 years previous, Leto approached her exterior of a café in Los Angeles. Based on the lady, Leto, who was seated with the actor Ashley Olsen, who was then 19, grabbed her arm” (through The Guardian).

“I regarded down and it was Jared Leto,” she instructed Air Mail (through The Guardian), clarifying: “We had a fast dialog, and he acquired my quantity.” She went on to say that Leto known as her dwelling just a few days later: “I don’t know if he was on medication or what … It was the weirdest, grossest voice … [But] for me, it’s Jared, you already know?” Folks journal writes that the identical girl remarked: “He modified – his voice, the best way he talked. It scared me. That was the primary time I assumed, ‘Oh, my God, that’s not simply within the films.’”

Nonetheless, and per Us Weekly, “a spokesperson for Leto instructed Air Mail that he ‘has not had a drink or used medication in over 35 years.’”

The Guardian additionally states that the lady was invited to a celebration at Leto’s home however didn’t go, as she instructed Air Mail: “I didn’t actually have a driver’s license.” However, she says that he persistently known as her “at one, two, three AM,” including: “And the conversations turned sexual. He’d ask issues like: ‘Have you ever ever had a boyfriend?’ Have you ever ever sucked a dick?’”

Equally, Folks journal notes that one other girl “alleged that she was ‘positively not the youngest particular person there’ whereas attending one in every of Leto’s events at his dwelling within the 2000s, when she was 18. Per [Air Mail], she additionally alleged that the main target of the get together gave the impression to be getting women to skinny dip.”

That stated, Folks proceed, “A consultant for Leto instructed Air Mail that ‘there was by no means any recruiting, complaints or impropriety.’ Nightlife promoter Brent Bolthouse, who organized a number of events at Leto’s dwelling, instructed the outlet he ‘by no means noticed anybody skinny-dipping.’”

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Mannequin Laura La Rue spoke to Air Mail about Leto, too.

As The Guardian explains, La Rue recalled that in 2008 (when she was 16 years previous and Leto was 20 years her senior), she was “at an occasion in a personal residence in Beverly Hills the place Leto was ‘watching her so intensely.’” Reportedly, he requested her about her age, and after she instructed him, he nonetheless requested for her telephone quantity. They then began “an electronic mail correspondence, which finally led to her visiting Leto’s dwelling in April 2009.”

“I keep in mind him teasing me the entire time . . . He was flirting with me. He’d lean in shut, then draw back, prefer it was a sport,” she instructed Air Mail (through The Guardian).

Moreover, La Rue recalled that in a unique go to (when she was 17 years previous), Leto approached her whereas he was absolutely nude. “He simply walked out, dick out, prefer it was a traditional . . . I assumed perhaps this was simply what grownup males do,” she mirrored (through The Guardian).

The Guardian additionally mentions that “in a press release to Air Mail, a consultant of Leto stated that ‘communications’ between Leto and La Rue ‘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.’”

Nonetheless, “Air Mail stories La Rue denying ever making use of for a private assistant function with Leto.”

These publications – amongst others – report that the Air Mail piece discusses a number of different girls (together with Los Angeles-based DJ/music producer Allie Teilz) who’ve made related claims about related interactions with Leto once they had been underage.

Lastly, The Guardian notes, “A consultant of Leto has ‘expressly denied’ the varied girls’s accusations reported in Air Mail, together with Teilz’s, which the consultant stated had been ‘demonstrably false.’”

For those who or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, sources can be found for assist. Go to the RAINN web site (Rape, Abuse, and Incest Nationwide Community) or dial 800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673).