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Nine women have accused Jared Leto of sexual impropriety. It's not the first time.

Nine women have accused actor and musician Jared Leto of inappropriate behaviour and sexual misconduct.

A new report published by Air Mail details the allegations, which include accusations of inappropriate behaviour towards teenage girls.

"It's been an open secret for a long time," one of the women told Air Mail.

Included in the allegations is one that Leto exposed himself to a then-17-year-old girl and began to masturbate.

Model Laura La Rue alleged that Leto engaged in an inappropriate relationship with her in 2008. At the time, she was 16, while he was 36.

After meeting at an event, Leto allegedly asked La Rue how old she was, to which she replied, 'I'm 16. How old are you?'.

They then struck up a text and email correspondence, which led to Leto inviting her to his home.

"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."

At another meet-up at Leto's home, La Rue claimed that Leto "walked out, d**k out, like it was normal".

"I thought maybe this was just what adult men do," she added.

In a statement to Air Mail, a representative for Leto denied La Rue's account of events.

"Their communications contain nothing sexual or inappropriate … and Ms La Rue later applied to work as Mr Leto's personal assistant, further underscoring the absence of anything inappropriate in any of their interactions," the statement read. Via Air Mail, La Rue denied having applied for a personal assistant job with Leto.

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Another woman claimed that during a catch-up, Leto "suddenly pulled his penis out and started masturbating." She alleged that Leto then "walked over, grabbed [her] hand, and put it on him. He leaned in and said: 'I want you to spit on it.'"

A third woman accused Leto of calling her in the middle of the night and using the "weirdest, grossest voice". She claimed to have swapped numbers with him in 2008 after meeting outside a café when she was 16.

On the phone, the actor allegedly invited her to a party, which she declined, telling Air Mail, "I didn't even have a driver's license." She claimed that Leto continued to call her in the early hours of the morning, and that the conversations would often be sexual in nature.

"And the conversations turned sexual. He'd ask things like: 'Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a dick?'" she said.

This report comes after Los Angeles-based DJ Allie Teilz re-shared a comment she made on social media in 2012 on her Instagram Stories. The comment read, "youre [sic] not really in L.A. until Jared Leto tries to force himself on you backstage… In a kilt.. And a snow hat."

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She added, "I was assaulted and traumatised by this creep when I was 17 … He knew my age and didn't care. What he did was predatory, terrifying and unacceptable."

It's not the first time Leto has faced allegations of this nature. In 2005, the New York Post published an article accusing him of "aggressively pursuing" teenage models, and reported that he was "calling and texting" his "underage objects of desire several times a day".

In 2018, actor Dylan Sprouse tweeted, "Yo @JaredLeto now that you've slid into the dm's of every female model aged 18-25, what would you say your success rate is?"

"He starts at 18 on the internet?" replied Suicide Squad director James Gunn.

In response to the Air Mail report, a representative for Leto "expressly denied" the allegations detailed in the Air Mail story and called the accusations "demonstrably false."

Leto has yet to comment.

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