Parents accuse Ezra Miller of grooming child with ‘cult-like’ behaviour
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In the complaint, the parents claim Ezra Miller 'uses violence, intimidation, threat of violence, fear, paranoia, delusions and drugs to hold sway over a young adolescent.'
Two parents have accused actor Ezra Miller of grooming their now-18-year-old child from the age of 12 onward, filing a legal claim that alleges Miller displays “cult-like and psychologically manipulative, controlling behavior.”
According to TMZ, which broke the initial story (later corroborated by several outlets), Miller met Tokata Iron Eyes while visiting the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. At the time of their meeting, Tokata was 12 years old and Miller 23.
Tokata’s parents, attorney and activist Chase Iron Eyes and pediatrician Sara Jumping Eagle, filed the court documents for a protective order on Tuesday in Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court. Tokata, too, is a prominent activist, having been a youth leader in protest of the proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In the filing, the parents allege Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, “took an immediate and apparently innocent liking” when they met Tokata. They claim the relationship with Miller, now 29, later changed, and accused the actor of providing Tokata with alcohol and drugs when they were a teen, including marijuana and LSD.
In the legal claim, Tokata’s parents allege Miller exhibited a “pattern of corrupting a minor.”
They continue, writing that Miller also paid for Tokata to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts when they were 16 years old. According to People magazine, court documents allege Miller “would later use this against Tokata to create a sense of indebtedness.”
After dropping out of college in December 2021, Tokata’s parents claim Tokata went to stay with Miller at their home in Vermont. The parents claim when they visited Tokata, their child had no driver’s licence, bank cards or keys.
According to the court documents, after three weeks of “detoxifying” at home, Tokata reunited with Miller and travelled to Hawaii with the actor. In April, while in Hawaii, Miller was arrested several times on charges ranging from assault to disorderly conduct.
