Jared Leto accused of sexual misconduct by four women who claim Thirty Seconds to Mars star assaulted them as teenagers
FOUR women have accused Hollywood actor Jared Leto of criminal sexual misconduct.
The allegations against the Oscar winner and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman, 54, come from when the women were teenagers aged 16 to 19.
One accuser alleges she was sexually assaulted in a motel bathroom when she was 17.
Another claims the Dallas Buyers Club star threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19 after the pair were left alone in a hotel room.
A third alleges she had sex with Leto when she was 17, which under California laws would be classed as statutory rape.
The fourth woman has accused Leto of grooming her and alleges he once took advantage of his celebrity status by making repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16.
He suggested they should have sex on at least one occasion, the alleged victim claims.
Four other women also allege they received strange and often sexual phone calls from Leto when they were younger.
A ninth woman also accuses the Morbius lead of ordering a security guard to take her backstage at a music festival when she was 14.
The woman alleges he made a sexual comment about her chest during an autograph-signing before claiming her mother confronted him.
The allegations all come from between 2002 and 2016 when Leto was in his 30s and 40s.
Leto is yet to respond to the allegations.
He has previously denied historic sexual misconduct accusations by nine women, including some who said they were teenagers at the time.
The Sun has reached out to Leto’s team for comment.
The allegations all come from a new BBC documentary titled Jared Leto: Hollywood‘s Dark Secret.
One unnamed accuser said: “This was 25 years ago… he has gotten away with it.”
Leto starred as The Joker in Suicide Squad and won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Dallas Buyers Club.
He is also the frontman to rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars.