Jared Leto Speaks Out After He's Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women

Jared Leto is facing allegations of sexual misconduct.

On Saturday (June 7), Air Mail published a story following interviews with nine women who claim that the 53-year-old actor and musician behaved inappropriately toward them, some while they were underage. The women allege that Jared has a longstanding pattern of this kind of behavior.

Keep reading to find out more…“It’s been an open secret for a long time,” an anonymous woman told the outlet.

Among the allegations, Jared is being accused of asking sexual questions to a 16-year-old girl, walking out of a room nude in front of a 17-year-old girl, along with exposing himself and masturbating before putting a 18-year-old girl’s hand “on him.”

Jared‘s rep responded to the accusations, telling Air Mail in a statement, “All of the allegations are expressly denied.”

In the article, model Laura La Rue recalled meeting Jared in 2008 at an animal rights benefit when she was 16. She said that she connected with him over email before he invited her over to his studio. She said that she visited the studio in April 2009 where he was allegedly “flirting” with her.

Jared‘s rep said that their “communications contain nothing sexual or inappropriate” and that Laura “later applied to work as Mr. Leto’s personal assistant, further underscoring the absence of anything inappropriate in any of their interactions.”

However, she denies that she applied for the position and alleged that he walked out of a room nude “like it was normal” on one occasion when she was 17.

Another woman claimed that she was 16-years-old in 2008 when Jared approached her at Urth Caffé in Los Angeles and “got” her number. Days later, Jared allegedly called her in the middle of the night with the “weirdest, grossest voice,” adding that she didn’t “know if he was on drugs.”

Jared‘s rep slammed these allegations, saying that the Oscar winner “has not had a drink or used drugs in over 35 years.”

Also in the article, one woman alleged that she was “definitely not the youngest person there” while attending one of Jared‘s parties at his home in the 2000s when she was 18. She claimed that the focus of the party appeared to be getting girls to skinny dip.

Jared‘s rep told the outlet that “there was never any recruiting, complaints or impropriety.” Nightlife promoter Brent Bolthouse, who organized multiple parties at Jared‘s also told Air Mail that he “never saw anyone skinny-dipping.”

Air Mail reported that the stories surrounding Jared’s alleged inappropriate behavior surfaced last month when DJ Allie Teilz reposted a Facebook status from 2012 on her Instagram Stories, writing that she was “assaulted and traumatized by this creep when I was 17.”

Jared‘s rep said that those “allegations are demonstrably false.”