Inside Jared Leto’s Mars Island ‘cult’ before sexual assault scandal
Actor Jared Leto is facing renewed scrutiny following a BBC documentary that details sexual assault allegations from multiple women. The report also revisits past controversies surrounding his band's fan retreats, which critics have compared to cult-like environments.
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Add Page Six on Google Years before Jared Leto’s sexual assault scandal — which has culminated in four women accusing the Oscar winner of sexual improprieties while they were teens in a new BBC documentary — he was also accused of heading a seeming “cult.”
Seven years ago, in August 2020, the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman headed up a wellness retreat at “Mars Island” — ostensibly for members of his band’s fanbase, which is dubbed The Echelon — on the private, uninhabited island of Obonjan, Croatia.
At the alcohol-free retreat, attendees were said to have swam, sunbathed, walked on the beach and engaged in yoga, all while celebrating their regard for the “Dallas Buyers Club” actor and his band.
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