Jared Leto has been accused of sexual assault and further “criminal sexual conduct” by four women in a new BBC investigation.
One woman, identified as Isabel (not her real name), claimed she was assaulted in a “dingy, gross motel” by the Oscar winner, 54, in 2002, when she was 17 and he was in his 30s.
Isabel, now in her 40s, alleged that Leto called her into the bathroom while he was showering, and “I don’t think there was many words exchanged, and he opened the shower curtain and started kissing me,” she said in a new BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, released on Wednesday, July 29.
She alleged that the actor and musician then used her hand to masturbate himself. She left the room shortly after, she said, and only later found out that Leto was in his 30s.
Jared Leto has been accused of “sexual impropriety” by multiple women. AirMail published a lengthy exposé on Saturday, June 7, alleging that Leto, 53, had acted inappropriately with younger women for many years. (The Oscar winner denied all of the accusations in a statement to the publication. Us Weekly has reached out for comment.) “It’s […]
A second woman alleged that the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, a third woman claimed he had sex with her when she was 17 and legally a minor in the state of California, and a fourth accused Leto of grooming her when she was 16.
According to the BBC report, four more women said they received “strange and often very sexual phone calls” from the star when they were younger, while another woman claimed Leto made a “lewd comment” about her chest during an autograph signing when she was 14. The BBC said nine of the 10 women interviewed were “sharing their stories publicly for the first time.”
Us has reached out to Leto’s representatives for comment. The BBC said that Leto did not respond to its “repeated attempts” to contact the actor.
A former model, identified by the BBC as Alex, said she met Leto following a London concert in 2013. She said she was invited to a party at a nearby hotel, but when she got there, she realized that “it’s really dark, and then I see that it’s just him.”
Jared Leto continued on with his band 30 Seconds to Mars’ summer world tour in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against him. Leto, 53, and 30 Seconds to Mars performed in front of a jam-packed festival audience at I-Days 2025 in Milan, Italy on Wednesday, July 2, and they are expected back on stage […]
Alex, who was 19 at the time, said she was worried about having no cash and her phone battery dying and asked Leto if he had a phone charger or money so she could get home, but he allegedly said no to both. She claimed that she then inquired if she could sleep on the chaise longue in Leto’s room and that he responded that she would wake up with a “d*** in her ass” if she did.
Clara, meanwhile, alleged she had sex with Leto at his house in California multiple times when she was 17 and he was 34. She claimed she had a conversation with Leto about the age of consent — which is 18 in California — and he “just kind of shrugged it off, like it wasn’t a huge concern for him.”
“He told me, ‘I would like you to call me daddy.’ And it was either pretend to be a little girl or ‘my little girl,’” Clara told the BBC. “It was only as time went on that I realized more and more how scary that really was.”
In June 2025, nine women accused Leto of “sexual impropriety” in an article published by Air Mail. The actor denied all of the accusations against him at the time.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).