Jared Leto has slammed the "absolutely and categorically false" sexual assault claims levelled against him by multiple women in his first statement since news of the allegations went public. The 54-year-old actor is the subject of a new BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret, in which four women accuse him of criminal sexual conduct and allege the offences took place when they were teenagers. Leto hadn't responded to multiple attempts to contact him for the BBC program, but has now issued a statement to People magazine in which he made his stance clear. A fourth woman claimed he had groomed her, using his celebrity status to make repeated sexually-explicit phone calls to her when she was just 16, and suggested at least once that they should have sex. According to the BBC, more than 120 allegations have been made online concerning the Leto's behaviour towards women.