What the Hell Happened: Ezra Miller — Hollywood’s Biggest Liability
Miller’s violent outbursts did not stop upon their return to the United States. This spring, they were arrested for disorderly conduct and second-degree assault in Hawaii.
Tokata Iron Eyes speaks out, says ‘Flash’ star Ezra Miller never groomed or abused her
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- Tokata Iron Eyes told Insider the “Flash” actor Ezra Miller never groomed or abused her.
- She spoke to Insider as part of an investigation detailing new allegations that Miller ran a cult in Iceland and is traveling the US with guns.
- Tokata’s parents say Miller left bruises on their daughter’s body, restricted her phone access, and verbally abused her.
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Tokata Iron Eyes says 29-year-old “Flash” actor Ezra Miller never groomed or abused her.
Iron Eyes, an 18-year-old Lakota activist, spoke out about the allegations for the first time as part of Insider’s investigation into Miller. Tokata’s parents, Chase Iron Eyes and Sara Jumping Eagle, say Miller has been “grooming” their daughter since she was 12. They said that this past year, Miller left bruises on Tokata’s arms and cheeks, restricted access to her phone, and verbally abused her. In June, Tokata’s parents obtained a temporary protection order demanding Miller stay away from their child.
In text messages to Insider, Tokata said that these allegations were “a disgusting and irresponsible smear campaign” against Miller, and that Miller “in multiple cases has done the right thing and stood in protection of others.”
Miller has known Tokata since she was 12, when they traveled to North Dakota to support the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016. Over the next six years, Miller kept in touch with the young activist, promising to help her music career and sometimes stopping by her home out of the blue, her parents said. Over time, they said, Miller’s interest in their daughter intensified.
In December 2021, Tokata and Miller went to stay with a family friend in South Dakota. During this visit, a member of the family friend’s household said she saw Tokata and Miller having sex on a bed outside. Tokata told Insider this was “so very false.”
Later that month, Miller returned to the Vermont farm with Tokata in tow. On January 29, Miller and their house guests called Tokata’s parents to tell them Tokata was incapacitated after having taken LSD four days prior.
Iron Eyes and Jumping Eagle flew to Vermont the next day. They said they found Tokata “out of it” and “incoherent,” screaming so relentlessly that she lost her voice for several days. She had bruises on her arms and left cheek, they said, and she didn’t have her phone or ID. Another person at the farm told Tokata’s parents that the bruising occurred when Miller pinned Tokata to the ground and screamed at her for failing to respond to a question, the protection order said.
Tokata told Insider she took “a microdose” of LSD and that the bruises were a result of self-harm following a close friend’s death. She added that some of the bruises may have occurred when her parents “violently dragged” her out of Miller’s house. (Jumping Eagle said Tokata was not “dragged” at any point.)
Oliver Ignatius, a longtime music collaborator of Miller’s, said he witnessed what he described as Miller’s “verbally abusive” treatment of the 18-year-old in both Hawaii and Vermont. In Hawaii in March, the actor confiscated Tokata’s phone “for her safety” and pressured her to change her name to Gibson, Ignatius said. Tokata told Insider she goes by both Tokata and Gibson and came up with Gibson herself.
At the Vermont farm in May, Miller again hid Tokata’s phone from her and at one point screamed obscenities at her for wearing makeup, Ignatius said. He recalled Miller saying: “What the fuck are you doing? Putting on this fucking clown paint?”
Tokata said she was never screamed at. “That was queer dialogue about a badly applied rouge on my part, which I appreciated,” she said. “I think the fact that a catty comment made by a queer person about makeup being considered abuse is actually quite homophobic rhetoric.”
Over the past six months, Miller has been driving around the US carrying at least one gun and wearing a bulletproof vest, paranoid about being followed by the FBI and the Ku Klux Klan, people told Insider. Tokata said the vest was “a fashionable safety measure in response to actual attacks and received death threats.”
Tokata’s mother said she and her husband have been motivated to sound the alarm about Miller, who they say has a pattern of targeting and grooming vulnerable young people.
“Our primary concern is the safety of our daughter,” Jumping Eagle said. “We want other people to be warned.”
What the Hell Happened: Ezra Miller — Hollywood’s Biggest Liability
In the past, the name Ezra Miller evoked the image of stardom, with their extensive filmography including films like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Fantastic Beasts,” and an upcoming starring role in “The Flash.” In recent months, however, dark details regarding the actor’s life have brought into question their mental stability and the safety of those around them. Charges against Miller range from assault and felony burglary and the grooming and abuse of female and non-binary identifying minors to running a cult-like harem out of their ranch in Vermont. Despite calls to fire Miller from the upcoming Flash movie over these incidents, Warner Bros has yet to take any action.
Miller’s descent into infamy began in March 2020, when they strangled two people in Reykjavik, Iceland. The first choking incident was dismissed as a drunken altercation, but the second choking incident, which was filmed and uploaded by a bystander, sparked outrage amongst fans of the Flash franchise.
That same spring, Miller also allegedly ran a cult from their Reykjavik Airbnb. Those who visited the actor’s home recall a commune-like environment and days filled with spiritual monologues and group meditations led by Miller’s spiritual advisor Jasper Young Bear. To Miller`s followers, he was a “Messiah” who “the Freemasons were sending demons out to kill and a spiritual leader.”
In an interview with Insider, a young woman who had a brief sexual relationship with Miller described the unhealthy environment within Miller’s “commune”: “Nobody ever was kind of allowed to disagree with them… Their reality painted everybody else’s reality. There was no room for anybody else’s opinion or feelings.”
Miller’s violent outbursts did not stop upon their return to the United States. This spring, they were arrested for disorderly conduct and second-degree assault in Hawaii.
In June, Chase Iron Eyes, father of Indigenous activist Tokata Iron Eyes, accused Miller of grooming Tokata from the age of 12 and manipulating the teen with various psychedelic drugs. According to Iron Eyes, Miller and Tokata began a sexual relationship when the activist was only 16. During their relationship, Miller exhibited concerning and ‘deranged behavior’, claiming that they were an incarnation of Jesus Christ and allegedly leaving bruises on Tokata’s body.
Not long after the allegations went public, the actor and activist went missing and were later found hiding at Miller’s Vermont ranch. Tokata Iron Eyes continues to deny any wrongdoing by Miller.
Since then, Miller’s ranch has become a self-proclaimed “healing haven” where they are currently hosting a 25-year-old mother and her three children. According to two sources who spoke to Rolling Stone, the ranch is a dangerous environment, with guns, weapons, and drugs allegedly strewn across the property. One source even recalled an instance when a one-year-old child allegedly put a loose bullet in her mouth.
Descriptions of the ranch possess strong similarities to Miller’s Icelandic cult, containing “an altar that’s home to bullets, weed, sage, and Flash figurines” where women who enter must leave offerings along with their cell phones. The Vermont police have attempted to launch an investigation into the safety of the mother’s children, but have been unable to locate the family.
As the saga of Ezra Miller progresses, one just has to ask — what the hell happened? How did one of Hollywood’s biggest stars become its biggest liability over the course of mere months? Will Miller’s tale become one of healing and recovery, or a tragic story of how poor mental health and unrestrained power can lead to disaster or an indictment of a Hollywood sphere that leaves its stars unchecked. Only time will tell.
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