Jared Leto: Several women are making allegations against him.Image: keystone
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Ten women make serious allegations against Hollywood star Jared Leto in a BBC documentary. He rejects this.
July 30, 2026, 9:35 a.mJuly 30, 2026, 9:35 a.m
“Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret” is the name of a documentary that the BBC released on Wednesday. In it, several women report on their experiences with the actor and singer and raise questions serious allegations against him. It’s about sexual violence, abuse of power and harassment.
Nine of the alleged victims are speaking publicly for the first time. Four of them were minors when the incidents allegedly occurred. According to them, the encounters with Jared Leto took place between 2002 and 2016. At the time he was in his 30s and 40s and the women were teenagers.
After the documentary was released, Jared Leto has now publicly rejected the allegations. “I have never committed sexual violence against anyone in my life,” said the 54-year-old in a written statement on Wednesday. “These allegations are absolutely and categorically false.”
Not the first allegations against Jared Leto
Two of the women accuse the frontman of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars of sexual violence; they say they were 17 years old at the time of the crime. Another woman says in the documentary that Jared Leto threatened her with sexual violence when she was 19 years old.
A fourth woman accuses the actor of offering her sex several times over the phone when she was 16 years old. Four other women also claim that the singer sexually harassed them over the phone.
It is not the first time that allegations of sexual violence against the Hollywood star have been made. As early as 2025, several women had made allegations, and Jared Leto denied the allegations back then.
Contact points for victims of sexual violence
Sexual assaults can take place in a wide variety of contexts. Help if you suspect or have experienced sexual violence The cantonal ones, for example, offer this Victim support centers or the Women’s advice on sexual violence. Victim support can also be reached via the national number 142. There is a position in Zurich for young people or adults who were sexually exploited in childhood Castagna. Affected men can refer to this Men’s Office Zurich turn around. If you are sexually attracted to children or know someone who is, you can this place help.
(with material from afp)