Jared Leto Denies A number of Claims of Sexual Misconduct

In response to 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 have 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 all the pieces 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 time, Jared Leto’s followers descended on Mars Island, a non-public 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,’ ‘Combat Membership,’ ‘Home of Gucci,’ and ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ is the entrance man of Thirty Seconds to Mars. The band referred to as it a “non secular retreat.” The French journal ‘L’Officiel’ referred to 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Per The Guardian, “a number of girls have accused Jared Leto of impropriety, with some calling the 53-year outdated actor and musician’s habits ‘predatory, terrifying and unacceptable.’”

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the years, together with flirting with youngsters,” with one lady saying that “again in 2006, when she was 16 years outdated, Leto approached her exterior of a café in Los Angeles.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

“I regarded down and it was Jared Leto,” she informed Air Mail (by way of The Guardian), clarifying: “We had a fast dialog, and he acquired my quantity.” She went on to say that Leto referred to as her residence a couple of 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 recognize?” People journal writes that the identical lady remarked: “He modified – his voice, the way in which he talked. It scared me. That was the primary time I believed, ‘Oh, my God, that’s not simply within the films.’”

Nonetheless, and per Us Weekly, “a spokesperson for Leto informed 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 informed Air Mail: “I didn’t also have a driver’s license.” Nonetheless, she says that he persistently referred to 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 lady “alleged that she was ‘undoubtedly not the youngest individual there’ whereas attending one among Leto’s events at his residence within the 2000s, when she was 18. Per [Air Mail], she additionally alleged that the main target of the social gathering gave the impression to be getting women to skinny dip.”

That stated, Folks proceed, “A consultant for Leto informed 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 residence, informed 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 outdated and Leto was 20 years her senior), she was “at an occasion in a non-public residence in Beverly Hills the place Leto was ‘watching her so intensely.’” Reportedly, he requested her about her age, and after she informed him, he nonetheless requested for her telephone quantity. They then began “an electronic mail correspondence, which finally led to her visiting Leto’s residence 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 informed Air Mail (by way of The Guardian).

Moreover, La Rue recalled that in a distinct go to (when she was 17 years outdated), Leto approached her whereas he was absolutely nude. “He simply walked out, dick out, prefer it was a standard . . . I believed possibly this was simply what grownup males do,” she mirrored (by way of 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 experiences La Rue denying ever making use of for a private assistant position 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 comparable claims about comparable interactions with Leto once they have been underage.

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

For those who or somebody you recognize has been sexually assaulted, assets 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).