Jared Leto denies sexual misconduct allegations in BBC documentary

Jared Leto has denied allegations of sexual misconduct made against him in a new BBC documentary. The film, titled 'Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret', aired on BBC iPlayer on 30 July and features accounts from ten women accusing the Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman of inappropriate behaviour spanning 2002 to 2016.

In a statement released hours after the documentary aired, Leto said: "I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false."

According to NME, the allegations include claims of sexual assault, statutory rape and grooming. Four women were highlighted in the documentary's title, with accounts including an alleged assault in a motel bathroom when one accuser was 17, and another woman's claim that Leto threatened her with sexual assault in a hotel room when she was 19. A third woman accused Leto of statutory rape and claimed he dismissed conversations about California's age of consent laws. Another accuser alleged Leto made sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16 and later sent her a non-disclosure agreement, which she refused to sign.

This marks the second major public accusation of misconduct against Leto. In June 2025, Air Mail published a report in which nine women accused him of inappropriate behaviour dating to the early 2000s. DJ Allie Teilz had previously shared a Facebook statement describing an assault when she was 17. Leto's representatives denied those claims at the time.