Jared Leto is accused of sexual misconduct by four women who claim Oscar-winner assaulted them as teens

By IMOGEN GARFINKEL - SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 08:29, 29 July 2026 | Updated: 08:47, 29 July 2026 Four women have accused Jared Leto of criminal sexual misconduct, with the alleged offences having taken place when they were teenagers. The allegations against the Oscar winner and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman, 54, come from when the women were aged 16 to 19.  One of the women says she was sexually assaulted in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another says the Dallas Buyers Club star threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, and had been unexpectedly left alone with him in a hotel room.  A third accuser describes how she had under-age sex with the star in California when she was 17 - which would be classified as statutory rape.  Leto 'shrugged off' a conversation about the age of consent being 18 in the US state, she alleges. The fourth woman claims she was groomed by Leto, accusing him of abusing his celebrity status by making repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16.  On at least one occasion, she alleges he suggested they should have sex. Four women have accused Jared Leto of criminal sexual misconduct, with the alleged offences having taken place when they were teenagers The allegations against the Oscar winner and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman, 54, come from when the women were aged 16 to 19 She was allegedly sent a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to prevent her from talking about her relationship with Leto, according to the BBC, which claims to have seen the document. Four further women allege they received strange and often very sexual phone calls from Leto when they were younger. Another woman claims, when she was 14, the actor instructed a security guard to take her backstage at a music festival after having made a lewd comment about her chest during an autograph signing.  The girl's mother confronted Leto, but he repeated the comment, it is alleged.   The allegations all come from between 2002 and 2016 when the star was in his 30s and 40s.  They all come from a new BBC documentary titled 'Jared Leto: Hollywood‘s Dark Secret'. In total, 10 women came forward for the show, nine of whom were sharing their stories publicly for the first time.  He is yet to respond to the allegations. One unnamed accuser said: 'This was 25 years ago… he has gotten away with it.' The Daily Mail has approached Jared Leto's representatives for comment.