Ezra Miller was poised to become a bona fide A-lister. DC’s The Flash, set to release in June 2023, puts them in the spotlight as the speedy superhero and potentially a key piece of the company’s expanded superhero film slate. But the success of that movie, not to mention the future of Miller’s career in general, has been thrown into disarray following a string of arrests and allegations of aggressive, manipulative behavior.
Miller has been racking up arrests and dubious incidents across different islands in Hawaii for the last couple of months, but the story has taken a darker turn in recent weeks. On June 23, Rolling Stone published an extensive piece revealing that a young mother and her children (all between ages one and five) are currently staying with Miller on their 96-acre Vermont farm. The woman told Rolling Stone that she’s found the home to be “a healing haven for us” after leaving an abusive relationship.
But two unnamed sources who spoke to Rolling Stone said that adults on the property have been farming marijuana and smoking it around the children, despite not being legally allowed to do so, per Vermont’s Cannabis Control Board. The sources also said that there is a sizable number of firearms around the house, including assault weapons.
That news comes just two weeks after a story broke that the parents of 18-year-old Native American activist Tokata Iron Eyes filed for a protective order against Miller and accused them of grooming. Per the Los Angeles Times, The parents believe Miller has been “psychologically manipulating, physically intimidating and endangering the safety and welfare of Iron Eyes,” including giving her drugs and alcohol, and attempting to sleep in a bed with the then-14-year-old when Miller was 25. A tweet from Sara Jumping Eagle, Iron Eyes’ mother, accused Miller of physical assault as well as “perpetuating cult-like behaviors and emotional abuse.” (In a post to her own Instagram account, Iron Eyes, who also goes by Gibson, pushed back against her parents’ actions, saying that Miller, “has only provided loving support and invaluable protection.”)
But as of mid-June, Miller could not be located in order to be served the protective order. According to the Times, Miller and Iron Eyes had spent time in several places, including New York, London, Vermont, and Hawaii, where Miller was arrested earlier this year on two separate occasions for second-degree assault and disorderly conduct and harassment.
And that isn’t the first allegation of Miller behaving bizarrely towards an underage nonbinary person. Following news of the Tokata Iron Eyes controversy, a judge in Massachusetts issued a “temporary harassment prevention order” to a 12-year-old child and their mother after an altercation in February. According to The Daily Beast, an argument broke out when Miller accused the mother of cultural appropriation, which later turned into a dispute between Miller and a visiting neighbor over the purported Rastafarian roots of the board game Parcheesi. The neighbor told the publication that Miller lifted their jacket to show a gun and made a menacing remark.
The child told The Daily Beast that Miller’s behavior made them “really uncomfortable” and “scared to be around them.” Though Miller apparently apologized, they returned on multiple occasions and made unwanted physical contact with the 12 year old.