Ezra Miller adds another crime to his long list. The actor who plays The Flash in the DC Universe films has been charged with breaking into a house. According to the police report collected by Variety magazine, at 5:55 p.m. local time on May 1, the Vermont State Police (USA) was notified of a report of a robbery at an apartment building. Police found that several bottles of alcohol had been removed from the premises while the owners were away. After collecting statements and viewing surveillance footage, they found enough evidence to charge Miller with breaking into an empty home. The agents announced the allegation on August 7. According to Celebrity Net Worth’s website, the interpreter, who is known for taking part in the Fantastic Beasts saga, has a net worth of $4 million.
This is the latest scandal from one of Hollywood’s most promising stars, a 29-year-old actor with few hours of lessons who has racked up more mugshot entries than IMDb in recent months. Each new complaint against him forms a disturbing story: the fall from grace of Miller, who in just two years went from generational idol to hallucinated New Age guru. The new robbery allegations are the least alarming, along with allegations of kidnapping, molesting and intimidating minors and creating a strange cult around his character.
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Ezra Miller was one of the most interesting and eccentric actors in new Hollywood. His participation in two cult films (We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower) brought him some notoriety. In the interviews he was original and unique, declaring himself to be a non-binary gender person concerned about social injustice, the oppression of minorities and environmental protection. He talked about his polyamory group or raising goats on his farm with the same ease with which he promoted the movie of the day. His red carpet appearances made him a fashion icon, but not only did Miller wear the best suits, there was something of a performative and theatrical quality to his appearances.
She could show up at the Justice League premiere in Beijing with makeup on, at a Saint Laurent runway show in leopard print shorts with the word SLUT scrawled on her cheek in lipstick, or at the Met Gala with five photorealistic eyes that are painted in such a way that his face looked like a kaleidoscope.
A few years ago, the actor’s eccentricities took a strange turn. In April 2020, a fan started dancing with him in a bar in Iceland and Miller grabbed her by the neck and wrestled her to the ground. Someone captured video of the incident and it went viral, taking on the first smudge on their picture. It wouldn’t be the only one.
It is now known, thanks to an insider investigation, that during his stay in Iceland Miller drew attention to his “putrid stench” and “walked barefoot through the cold streets of Reykjavik, baring long, pointed fingernails and what appeared to be a… Infection looked like foot sore. According to several witnesses, he gathered a group of people in an Airbnb they rented in the suburb of Kópavogur, with one visitor comparing the atmosphere to that of a commune. “I felt like everyone was intrigued,” he told Insider. “Between Miller’s impromptu commune, his monologues about spirituality and his emotional outbursts, rumors began circulating in Reykjavik that the star was leading a cult,” notes the magazine.
To follow the Miller police trail, you have to make a geographic jump to Hawaii. There he had a second, equally strange altercation. He got into a fight at karaoke with a couple from whom he snatched the microphone for singing a Lady Gaga song. He ended up in jail, but a friend posted bail. A few days later, this friend reported the actor for making threats. In total, Ezra Miller had ten run-ins with the police in the few months he was in Hawaii.
It’s easy to follow in the interpreter’s footsteps from his police record, and his recent complaints take him to Stamford, Vermont. Here he has a farm where he grows marijuana, practices free love and, according to relatives of those affected, holds several idolatrous young women in a bizarre situation which the applicants describe as a “terrifying cult-typical situation”.
Miller has housed a 25-year-old mother and her three children, ages one to five, at her ranch, according to a Rolling Stone investigation in June. The minor’s father would have denounced the facts to understand that it was not a safe environment. The magazine assures that there are videos showing up to eight guns scattered around the house, some stacked between piles of stuffed animals.
Equally disturbing is the story of another resident of his ranch. In early June, 18-year-old Iron Eyes’ parents sued him for preventing them from seeing their daughter. The actor met her at a demonstration against the construction of an oil pipeline on Sioux land in 2016 when he was 23 and she was 12. Since then he has funded her studies and invited her to premieres and red carpets of his films. Last June, the young woman’s parents denounced that she had manipulated, intimidated and threatened her daughter’s physical integrity over the past four years. Parents have accused Miller of influencing her decision to come out as non-binary transgender. The minor offers a vision opposite to that of her parents, who accuse her of being transphobic.
All of these complaints and investigations paint a turbulent and complex picture of an actor who appears to be plagued by mental health and substance abuse issues. But the conflicting versions and lack of evidence prevent a solid story from forming.
Amid the arrests and controversy, the question lingered as to whether The Flash’s solo film would be canceled or hit theaters next year. This was going to be one of the DC Universe’s big bets, but the pandemic and Miller scandals have changed the release date. Many feared a cancellation given the latest news. Last week, however, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav reiterated that The Flash is still going, while also announcing the cancellation of Batwoman. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on June 23, 2023.