Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto has been accused by nine women of impropriety, with some calling the 53-year-old actor and musician’s behavior “predatory, terrifying and unacceptable”.
In a new report by Air Mail on Saturday, June 7, nine women have come forward to accuse Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior over the years, including flirting with teenagers.
Speaking to the outlet, one woman said that back in 2006, when she was 16 years old, Leto approached her outside a cafe in Los Angeles.
According to the woman, Leto, who was seated with the actor Ashley Olsen, who was then 19, grabbed her arm.
“I looked down and it was Jared Leto,” the woman told Air Mail, adding: “We had a quick conversation, and he got my number.” She went on to say that Leto called her home a few days later, recalling: “I don’t know if he was on drugs or what … It was the weirdest, grossest voice … [But] for me, it’s Jared, you know?”
She said that Leto said he was hosting a party at his house that evening and that he invited her. The woman declined, telling the outlet: “I didn’t even have a driver’s license.” Nevertheless, she said, Leto kept calling her, “always at one, two, three AM”.
“And the conversations turned sexual. He’d ask things like: ‘Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a dick?’” she told Air Mail.
Another woman, the model Laura La Rue, recounted a similar experience to the outlet, saying that when she was 16 years old in 2008, she was at an event in a private residence in Beverly Hills where Leto was “watching her so intensely”.
“He asked how old I was. I said, ‘I’m 16. How old are you?’” La Rue told Air Mail. Leto, who was 36 at the time, proceeded to ask for her number. The two began an email correspondence, which eventually led to her visiting Leto’s home in April 2009, the outlet reports.
“I remember him teasing me the whole time I was there,” La Rue said, adding: “He was flirting with me. He’d lean in close, then pull away, like it was a game.”
A representative for Leto denied that allegation to Air Mail, saying his interactions with La Rue involved “nothing sexual or inappropriate.” They further claimed she “later applied to work as Mr. Leto’s personal assistant, further underscoring the absence of anything inappropriate.”
Another woman who spoke to the outlet said that she and Leto began a texting relationship while she was still underage. According to her, Leto would ask her inappropriate questions during her visits to his house, such as: “Do any of the little boys you hang out with fuck you?”
The woman added that once, when she was 18, Leto “suddenly pulled his penis out and started masturb@ting”. She told the outlet: “Then he walked over, grabbed my hand, and put it on him. He leaned in and said: ‘I want you to spit on it.’”
Another woman, Allie Teilz, a Los Angeles-based DJ and music producer, last month on Instagram reposted a 2012 Facebook status in which she had said: “Youre [sic] not really in L.A. until Jared Leto tries to force himself on you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snow hat,” Air Mail reported.
In her Instagram stories, which Air Mail reviewed, Teilz said: “I was assaulted and traumatized by this creep when I was 17 … He knew my age and didn’t care. What he did was predatory, terrifying, and unacceptable.”
A representative of Leto has “expressly denied” the various women’s accusations reported in Air Mail, including Teilz’s, which the representative said were “demonstrably false”.
Shortly after the news surfaced, Jared Leto denied allegations of years-long “s£xual impropriety” brought forth by the women, including DJ and music producer Allie Teilz, who recently resurfaced her more than decade-old claims against the actor.
A representative for Leto told Air Mail, “All of the allegations are expressly denied.”
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