Jared Leto denies sexual misconduct accusations from 9 girls
Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by 9 girls, allegations representatives for the singer have denied.
In a report revealed by Air Mail on Friday (June 6), a number of girls accused the 53-year-old actor and musician of inappropriate behaviour. The allegations date again to the early 2000s, with one girl calling it “an open secret” that he texted sexual remarks to teenage fashions.
Allegations towards the Thirty Seconds to Mars singer emerged final month, when Los Angeles primarily based DJ Allie Teilz shared on outdated Fb submit of hers, written in 2012, on her Instagram Story.
“Youre [sic] probably not in L.A. till Jared Leto tries to drive himself on you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snow hat. I used to be assaulted and traumatized by this creep once I was 17,” she wrote. “I used to be assaulted and traumatized by this creep once 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 consultant of Leto has “expressly denied” the a number of accusations reported within the Air Mail expose – together with Teilz’s – with the consultant saying the claims have been “demonstrably false”.
One girl instructed the publication that in 2006, at which era she was 16-years-old, Leto approached her outdoors 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 regarded down and it was Jared Leto,” she instructed Air Mail, including: “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, recalling: “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?”
After the accuser speculated that he was both consuming or doing medication when making these calls, Leto’s rep mentioned he has has been sober for greater than 35 years (by way of The Independent).
The girl went on to say Leto was internet hosting a celebration at his home that night and had he invited her, which she declined. “I didn’t also have a driver’s license,” she mentioned, explaining that regardless of that, Leto stored calling her, “at all times at one, two, three AM”.
“And the conversations turned sexual,” she continued. “He’d ask issues like: ‘Have you ever ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever ever sucked a dick?’”
Mannequin Laura La Rue got here ahead with comparable claims, saying that when she was 16-years-old in 2008, she was at an occasion in a personal residence in Beverly Hills the place Leto was “watching her so intensely”.
“He requested how outdated I used to be. I mentioned, ‘I’m 16. How outdated are you?’” La Rue instructed Air Mail. The Battle Membership star, who was 36 on the time, then reportedly requested for her quantity. The 2 started an electronic mail correspondence, which resulted in her visiting Leto’s dwelling in April 2009, the outlet alleges.
“I bear in mind him teasing me the entire time I used to be there,” La Rue mentioned, including: “He was flirting with me. He’d lean in shut, then draw back, prefer it was a sport.”
In a press release to Air Mail, a consultant of Leto mentioned: “Their communications include 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.”
The publication reported that La Rue denies ever making use of for a private assistant position. She described a separate go to when she was 17-years-old, the place she alleged Leto walked out of a room utterly bare. “He simply walked out, dick out, prefer it was regular … I assumed possibly this was simply what grownup males do,” she mentioned.
One other girl who spoke to the outlet mentioned that she and Leto started texting whereas she was nonetheless underage. She alleged he would ask her inappropriate questions throughout her visits to his home, together with “Do any of the little boys you hang around with fuck you?”
The girl alleged that after, when she was 18, Leto had “out of the blue pulled his penis out and began masturbating”. She instructed Air Mail: “He walked over, grabbed my hand, and put it on him. He leaned in and mentioned: ‘I would like you to spit on it.’”
Again in 2018, the Metro reported on a Twitter submit made by Banana Break up star Dylan Sprouse, who’s married to mannequin Barbara Palvin. The submit learn: “Yo @JaredLeto now that you simply’ve slid into the DMs of each feminine mannequin aged 18–25, what would you say your success price is?”
Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn replied to Sprouse’s tweet on the time, saying: “He begins at 18 on the web?”
Comparable claims have been made in 2005, when The New York Post shared a narrative with the opening line: “Jared Leto likes ’em younger” after he had been noticed with Olsen and Lindsay Lohan. On the time, sources instructed the publication he had been ” aggressively pursuing most of the teen fashions shacked up on the Maritime Resort”.
NME has contacted Leto’s representatives for additional remark.