Jared Leto denies sexual assault claims in BBC film

Jared Leto has denied sexual assault and harassment allegations made by ten women in a BBC documentary.

The women said they were victimised by Leto between 2002 and 2016. Two accused him of sexual assault when they were 17. Another said the actor threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, and a fourth said she received sexually explicit phone calls from him when she was 16 and was allegedly propositioned for sex.

Four other women described sexual harassment during phone calls from Leto, who is also the lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars.

“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” the 54-year-old actor said in a statement. “These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”

The BBC documentary is titled “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret.” Nine of the ten women are speaking publicly for the first time in the programme.

Leto, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2014 for “Dallas Buyers Club,” has faced similar allegations before. In 2025, several other women accused him of sexual assault in an investigation by the US digital magazine Air Mail. Leto also denied inappropriate conduct at that time.