{"id":23905,"date":"2026-08-01T04:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23905"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:24:37","slug":"jared-leto-documentary-director-says-it-is-a-mystery-allegations-havent-impacted-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23905","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto documentary director says it is a &#8220;mystery&#8221; allegations haven&#8217;t impacted his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The director of a new documentary into sexual misconduct allegations against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/jared-leto\">Jared Leto <\/a>has said it is a \u201cmystery\u201d that the claims have not impacted his career.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jared Leto: Hollywood\u2019s Dark Secret<\/i>, which is available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m002zl1y\/jared-leto-hollywoods-dark-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC\u00a0iPlayer<\/a>\u00a0now,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/jared-leto-accused-of-criminal-sexual-misconduct-by-four-women-3959540\">features allegations from 10 women<\/a> relating to alleged encounters with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/oscars\">Oscar<\/a>-winning actor and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/thirty-seconds-to-mars\">Thirty Seconds To\u00a0Mars<\/a>\u00a0frontman\u00a0between 2002 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the women have accused Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers, including sexual assault, statutory rape and grooming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/jared-leto-responds-to-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-from-four-women-when-they-were-teenagers-3959754\">He has denied the allegations<\/a>, stating: \u201cI have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0documentary\u2019s\u00a0director Alice McShane has now spoken to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/global\/jared-leto-bbc-documentary-director-allegations-1236824187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Variety<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i>about the film, questioning why previous allegations against Leto have appeared to have little effect on his career.<\/p>\n<p>Last June,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/jared-leto-denies-sexual-misconduct-accusations-from-nine-women-3868140\">nine women accused the actor\u00a0of sexual misconduct<\/a>\u00a0in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-6-7\/the-cult-of-leto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Air Mail <\/i><\/a>investigation. His representatives \u201cexpressly denied\u201d the claims at the time and described them as \u201cdemonstrably false\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jared Leto: Four women accuse Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman of criminal sexual conduct | BBC News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZX6xHQz3Jsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>McShane said her team had already begun working on the documentary when that article was\u00a0published, but\u00a0were surprised by the response to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just really surprising when not a huge amount seemed to happen after that article went live,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the\u00a0<i>Air Mail\u00a0<\/i>report, Leto has appeared in two major films,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/tron-ares-review-nine-inch-nails-jared-leto-evan-peters-3898033\"><i>Tron: Ares <\/i><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/jared-letos-skeletor-revealed-in-masters-of-the-universe-trailer-3937898\"><i>Masters Of The Universe<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the allegations had\u00a0seemingly had\u00a0little impact\u00a0on his career, McShane replied: \u201cIt\u2019s quite a mystery, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just feels like the outrage about stories like this has slightly cooled,\u201d she added, pointing to the rise of the \u2018manosphere\u2019. \u201cIn a way, these sorts of stories have been normalised in people\u2019s minds, and I just don\u2019t think that they get the traction perhaps that they would have done 10 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s cultivated this persona of this kind of weird, enigmatic, mysterious guy, and I think, in a way, that sort of shielded him from accountability,\u201d she said, adding that she believed there was also an element of \u201cpretty privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>McShane, who also directed\u00a0<i>Russell Brand: In Plain Sight\u00a0<\/i>in 2023, said Leto and his representatives did not respond directly to a right-of-reply letter sent by her team earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>One woman featured in the documentary alleged that Leto sexually assaulted her in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another accused him of having sex with her in California when she was 17, which would be classified as statutory rape under state law.<\/p>\n<p>A third woman alleged that he threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, while another claimed that he groomed her and made repeated sexually explicit phone calls when she was 16.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said it has corroborated a number of the accounts with friends and family members who were told about the alleged encounters at the time, as well as examining messages and photographs.<\/p>\n<p><b>For more help, advice or more information\u00a0regarding\u00a0sexual harassment, assault and rape in the UK, visit the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/rapecrisis.org.uk\/index.php\"><b>Rape Crisis charity website<\/b><\/a><b>. In the US, visit\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainn.org\/index.php\"><b>RAINN.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a new documentary into sexual misconduct allegations against\u00a0Jared Leto has said it is a \u201cmystery\u201d that the claims have not impacted his career. 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