Jared Leto’s behavior, which was considered “eccentricity”, now appears in a darker light

This is how an anonymous source described Jared Leto’s behavior in a New York hotel in 2005. The interview was conducted by the New York Post, and it was highlighted this week by the culture magazine Vulture.

It was reportedly the first article about Leto’s alleged inappropriate behavior.

At the time, 33-year-old Leto was in New York with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars. The group stayed in the same hotel as several young models from prestigious modeling agencies.

Leton for inappropriate behavior is has been talked about for decades, but in the past the media has mainly treated the behavior as a slightly amusing eccentricity of the artist. The image has remained enigmatic.

The image of Leto as a star striving for limitlessness has long since been built, who intentionally mixes spirituality, sexual charisma, commercialism and the image of a “dangerous” artist. Stories about the artist’s extraordinary adventures related to method acting have spread widely.

The artist’s behavior is no longer explained by eccentricity. Now the tone has completely changed.

Last year, the Air Mail – website published an article in which nine women accused Leto of inappropriate behavior. One of the women interviewed for the story described Leto’s alleged behavior as an “open secret” in Hollywood.

Earlier this week it was reported that several women had presented accusations against Leto in a recent BBC documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Now the 54-year-old artist has to answer real sex crime allegations.

Leto‘s acting career seemed to be on a constant upswing for a long time.

The career got off to a promising start already in the 1990s, when he performed in the teen series So-called Life (My So-Called Life) for playing the main character, the crush of Claire Danes’s character.

He became a superstar at the latest Darren Aronofsky’s haunting addiction drama Dreams with sielunmessu (2000).

In 2013, she won an Oscar for playing an HIV-positive trans woman in Dallas Buyers Club.

Leto has been doing well in the music field as well. His band Thirty Seconds to Mars had its commercial peak from 2005-2013, but still tours and gathers millions of listeners every month on streaming services. The band has performed many times in Finland as well.

The next tour is scheduled to start in April next year from Lisbon. The group’s European tour has 17 concerts. The upcoming tour to Finland does notulotu.

Rumours of Leto’s inappropriate behavior have surfaced over the years from here.

Of the public figures, at least Actors Elijah Wood and Dylan Sprouse have criticized Leto’s behavior in interviews and on social media, Vulture says.

Leto or his representatives have constantly denied the accusations of harassment, and the star’s other unusual behavior has mostly been dismissed with explanations of character.

The actions of Thirty Seconds to Mars, piloted by Leto, have also sparked debate over the years.

The band calls its fanbase Echelon. It has consciously used religious and cult-like imagery, and Jared Leto has elevated himself to some sort of fan cult leader. For example, the band has organized a contest where the winner got to sleep in Leto’s bed for the night.

There is no evidence that Thirty Seconds to Mars is actually a religious or legally definable cult. Criticism has mainly concerned the commercialization of cult aesthetics, the strong engagement of fans and the unbalanced power relationship.

Thirty Seconds to Mars itself has openly played with the cult image over the years. In 2019, the band published an update on Twitter at the time, now the messaging service X, in which they wrote: “Yes, this is a cult.”

The update included a picture of Leto in a shirt with the text “This is a cult” on the back, which was obviously intended as a joke.

This is no longer a joke.

Ten women have been interviewed for the BBC’s Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret documentary. Four of them make allegations of sexual crimes that allegedly occurred between 2002 and 2016.

One of the women interviewed in the documentary claims that Leto sexually assaulted her in a motel bathroom in Las Vegas in 2002. The woman was 17 years old at the time. Another interviewee says that Leto threatened her with sexual violence in a London hotel in 2013, when the woman was 19 years old.

The third interviewed woman says that she had sex with Leto in California in 2006 when she was 17 years old. In the state of California, the age of protection is 18, so the act would meet the hallmarks of statutory rape. According to the woman, Leto “shrugged his shoulders” when they discussed the age of protection.

“This happened 25 years ago… he’s gotten away like a dog from the ring,” one of the alleged victims says in the documentary.

Leto has denied all the allegations made by the women interviewed in the BBC documentary.

“I have never sexually harassed anyone in my entire life. These allegations are completely and categorically false,” Leto said through his representative to the BBC.