Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret

A BBC documentary has uncovered allegations of criminal sexual conduct by multiple women at the hands of Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto. All were teenagers at the time of the alleged offences. One said she was subjected to sexual assault, another that the Hollywood star threatened her with sexual assault, and a third said he had sex with her in California when she was underage, which would be classified as statutory rape.

Leto won the 2014 Academy Award for best supporting actor for Dallas Buyers Club and has appeared in hit films such as Fight Club, Blade Runner 2049, Suicide Squad and, most recently, Masters of the Universe. He also has an award-winning rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.

The film contains allegations from five other women, four of them between 16 and 18 at the time, that the star abused his celebrity status to get their phone numbers. Many of his repeated phone calls to them were sexually explicit in nature, they said.