He claimed actor Ezra Miller groomed his teen daughter — but now it’s a very different story
What a difference two years makes, at least if you’re Ezra Miller.
The once-troubled “Flash” star was in legal hot water in June 2022 for allegedly assaulting people in Hawaii and Iceland. Miller was also in the crosshairs of the parents of a Native American girl — who accused the actor, who uses they/them pronouns, of brainwashing, attacking and possibly drugging their then-teenage daughter, Tokata Iron Iron Eyes.
Now Miller, 31, and Tokata, 21, who first met when she was 12 and the actor was 22, are touring the country in a band called Hundred in the Hand. A week ago the band, with Tokata as lead singer and Miller on drums, appeared at the Voodoo Brewing Pub in Las Vegas.
And her parents have not only been to some shows to support them, according to a rep for Miller, but her father announced on Instagram that he has made peace with the situation.
“Now we are doing our level best to move on, to reconcile, to heal while remaining supportive as a father; as long as Tokata’s good we’re good,” Chase Iron Eyes posted.
Miller’s rep told The Post the rapprochement was “something very organic that just kind of evolved. The parents realized everything Tokata was saying about him being her friend was true.”
Miller and Tokata are “best friends” and not romantically involved, the actor’s rep added.
Sara Jumping Eagle, a pediatrician on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, and her husband, attorney and activist Iron Eyes, felt very differently about Miller in June 2022.
The couple accused Miller of grooming their then 18-year-old child and said they feared his dangerous, “cult-like” behavior — even chasing Miller and Tokata to Los Angeles, where Jumping Eagle got into a brawl with the star on a Santa Monica street.
Jumping Eagle told The Post in 2022 that Miller’s toxic behavior includes the appropriation of Native beliefs. She said that Miller, the New Jersey-born child of a Manhattan publisher and his actress wife, even lectured her family on what kind of Lakota medicine man they should use.
“Like this guy knows s–t about what he’s talking about,” Jumping Eagle said at the time. “Telling us what to do in our own culture?”
Among other things, in 2022, the actor was accused of manipulating a harem of young people, throwing a chair at a woman in Hawaii and appearing to choke a woman in Iceland.
Tokata’s parents filed a complaint in Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court accusing Miller of manipulating and controlling her since their initial meeting at Standing Rock Reservation in 2016.
The complaint claimed Miller exhibited “cult-like and psychologically manipulative, controlling behavior” towards Tokata. The girl, however, steadfastly defended Miller at the time, saying the actor had “only provided loving support and invaluable protection.”
But in what several close to Miller say was a surprise move, Iron Eyes posted to social media on Aug. 25 that he and his wife had withdrawn the complaint they filed against Miller in 2022.
Iron Eyes said that “when I filed a petition and claimed that Ezra appeared to have ‘groomed’ Tokata,” it was on the basis of bad information.
“I made that statement in my pleading (in a time of absolute war) based on information from a witness who then recanted and said nothing happened that they could infer anything inappropriate from. Thus, I immediately withdrew the court filings,” Iron Eyes wrote in the post, which included several photos of him with Miller, including one with their arms around each other.
Neither Sara Jumping Eagle or Chase Iron Eyes responded to calls from The Post.
Miller began undergoing therapy two years ago and laying low while their team worked to clear up the myriad legal problems.
After the incident in Hawaii, the actor pled no contest to a single count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and paid a $500 fine and $30 in court costs. The harassment charge was dismissed. No charges were filed in Iceland.
In August 2022, a week after Miller was charged with felony burglary for allegedly stealing alcohol from a home in Vermont, the actor broke their silence in a statement provided to Variety by a representative.
“Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, I now understand that I am suffering complex mental health issues and have begun ongoing treatment,” Miller said in the statement.
“I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior. I am committed to doing the necessary work to get back to a healthy, safe and productive stage in my life.”
The statement came after reports that Warner Bros. was considering pulling “The Flash” because of Miller’s behavior.
In January 2023, the last remaining legal charge —one that entailed breaking and entering to get cooking wine in Vermont —was “resolved,” Miller’s rep said.
“Ezra’s been doing really well and so is Tokata,” the rep added. “They’re writing music together and they go on gigs together. Tokata lives with her parents. They don’t live together.”
The rep said it’s unclear if the actor will play The Flash again and they Miller is now focusing on music, although they have acting opportunities lined up and have been invited to Fashion Week in New York next month.
Miller went on tour last summer with Israeli-American rapper Matisyahu, showing off drumming and percussion skills in venues like The Caverns in Pelham, Tenn. as part of the Matisyahu and Special Sauce Summer Tour.
