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Four women have accused Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct. The allegations, which took place when the women were teenagers, were recounted in a new BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret , which aired Wednesday.
One of the women said she was sexually assaulted by Leto in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another, then 19, said Leto threatened her with sexual assault after being left alone with him in a hotel room. A third woman claims she had underage sex with Leto in California when she was 17, which would be classified as statutory rape in the state. The fourth woman claimed she was groomed by Leto and accused him of abusing his celebrity status by making repeated sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16. (Reps for Leto did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Leto did not respond to "repeated attempts" by the BBC to contact him.)
The documentary features a total of 10 women speaking about their alleged experiences with Leto. Nine of them are speaking publicly on the incidents for the first time. All the women described encounters with Leto, who is now 54, between 2002 and 2016, when he was in his thirties and forties.
There have been multiple allegations against Leto for years. Last year, allegations Los Angeles DJ Allie Teilz claimed on social media that she had been assaulted by the actor when she was 17, prompting several other women to come forward with similar claims. Air Mail released an article last June recounting nine allegations, all of which Leto denied .
In the documentary, the women describe problematic encounters with Leto in multiple cities around the world. In 2006, an associate of Leto's approached a 17-year-old backstage at a Thirty Seconds to Mars concert and took her phone number for the musician, then 34. She claims she had sex with him at his house in California.
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