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Jared Leto has responded to allegations of criminal sexual conduct leveled against him by several women in a BBC documentary, declaring them to be “categorically false.”
“Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Darkest Secret” was released
on Wednesday and featured a total of 10 women who came forward with allegations against the actor and singer. Four women alleged that the offenses occurred when they were teenagers.
In the documentary, one of the women accuses the Oscar winner of assaulting her in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another claims Leto threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19. A third describes how she allegedly had sex with Leto in California when she was 17, under the age of consent, which therefore would be classified as statutory rape. A fourth women alleges Leto made repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16 and, on at least one occasion, suggested that they should have sex.
All the women that feature in “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret” claim the interactions occurred between 2002 and 2016, when the actor, now 54, was in his 30s and 40s.
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” said Leto in a statement provided by his reps. “These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”
The BBC said it has corroborated “a number of the women’s accounts with friends and family who were told about the encounters with Leto at the time,” and in some cases, has also seen pictures and messages that “support the women’s accounts.”
These aren’t the first allegations against Leto. Last year, DJ Allie Teilz accused Leto of sexual misconduct on social media, claiming that he assaulted her when she was 17, prompting several other women to come forward in an Air Mail investigation published in June 2025. In that report, Leto denied all allegations.
