Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret review – the tales of abuse are utterly disturbing
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Four women speak out about their underage experiences with the movie star and musician. Are the floodgates finally about to open? Jared Leto has long been a person with something of a reputational issue. The public-facing side of this was bad enough – while playing The Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad, he reportedly sent
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Four women speak out about their underage experiences with the movie star and musician. Are the floodgates finally about to open?
Jared Leto has long been a person with something of a reputational issue.
The public-facing side of this was bad enough – while playing The Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad, he reportedly sent rats, dead pigs and used condoms to his cast mates – but for years there have been upsetting rumours about what he does in private.
After a lengthy investigation, the BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret has finally brought at least some of them to light. This is, as you might imagine, not a fun thing to watch.
The film, directed by Alice McShane, documents allegations of what are said to be decades of systematic criminal misconduct against teenage girls.
The women interviewed here allege sexual assault, threatened sexual assault, sexualised grooming and statutory rape.
They are backed up by anonymous male former co-workers who claim to have witnessed the machinery that Leto set up to procure underage girls from concerts. Continue reading...
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