From the coverage, I have found detailed information about crew members Brad and Simon who worked with Thirty Seconds to Mars, and their accounts are quoted in the BBC doc. Let me write the article based on the comprehensive reporting I’ve found:
A BBC documentary released Wednesday featured 10 women who came forward with allegations against Jared Leto, the Oscar-winning actor and frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars
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The allegations stem from incidents between 2002 and 2016, when Leto was in his 30s and 40s
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Four of the women accused Leto of criminal sexual conduct, all occurring when they were teenagers
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One woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Leto in a motel bathroom when she was 17
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“He told me, ‘I would like you to call me daddy.’ And it was either pretend to be a little girl or ‘my little girl,'” the woman alleged
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Additionally, working with the band created concerning dynamics.
One former crew member who toured with Thirty Seconds to Mars said: “I’ve been on the road since I was a teenager and Jared is one of the worst people I’ve ever worked for in any way, shape or form”
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He recalled that after a young girl left a bedroom and waited for her parents to pick her up, “the feeling in the air, it felt like shame and embarrassment”
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Brad toured with the band during a period when they were headlining arenas in different countries
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When asked about the atmosphere on tour, Brad said it was “very tense”
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Requests for young female models at shows came directly from Leto.
“Brad,” told the documentary that requests for female models to receive VIP tickets during arena tours came directly from Leto. Brad said “no-one enjoyed watching that or being involved with that”
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“I think everyone thought that the age gap was way too big”
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Another crew member, identified as Simon, had similar observations.
Simon said Leto frequently communicated with young women while the band was recording and recalled women regularly visiting a house where the group was working. “There would probably typically on a given day be about two girls that might stop by,” Simon said
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Reflecting on allegations that surfaced publicly in recent years, Simon told the BBC that accounts from some women felt familiar to what he had witnessed while working with the band. “It’s uncanny,” he said. “The things she says about how he would behave with her. It’s upsetting. It’s disturbing. It completely brings back memories of what I witnessed”
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One additional accuser came forward during the documentary investigation.
A second woman says Leto threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, after being “unexpectedly” left alone with him in a hotel
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She alleges she told Leto she was 17, despite actually being 19, and claims he replied: “Age is just a number, and anyway, we’re in Europe”
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Alex further alleges she was later encouraged to go to a nearby hotel room, where she says Leto repeatedly threatened to sexually assault her before she left
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A third woman described a different type of encounter.
Another woman said she was 17 when she had sex with Leto in California, where the age of consent is 18. She claimed that when the issue of age was raised, Leto dismissed concerns about it
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The fourth accuser alleged grooming through explicit communication.
A fourth woman said Leto groomed her when she was 16, alleging that he used his celebrity status to make sexually explicit calls, and suggest that they have sex on at least one occasion
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Leto allegedly sent her an NDA to try to prevent her from talking about their discussions, but she refused
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Additional claims come from women who say they received “strange and often very sexual” calls from Leto, as well as one occasion where he made a lewd comment about a 14-year-old’s chest during an autograph-signing event
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The BBC says it has “corroborated” a number of the accounts with friends and family of the women involved
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In the viral moment that prompted the latest investigation,
DJ Allie Teilz shared an old Facebook post, written in 2012, on her Instagram Story, writing: “Youre [sic] not really in L.A. until Jared Leto tries to force himself on you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snow hat. I was assaulted and traumatized by this creep when I was 17,” she wrote
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In a separate story, she added: “He knew my age and didn’t care. What he did was predatory, terrifying and unacceptable”
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Leto has firmly denied all allegations.
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false”
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The Suicide Squad actor did not respond to the BBC’s requests for comment
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No criminal charges have ever been filed against him
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Thirty Seconds to Mars is set to tour mainland Europe and the UK in 2027 with concerts at the O2 London and Manchester’s Co-op Live arena
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