United Kingdom, July 29 -- 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 programme, but has now issued a statement to People in which he made his stance clear.

He said: "I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false."

In the documentary, one woma...