Ezra Miller's Victims Begin Talking

One note about the language Variety uses to refer to Ezra Miller as "they/them:"
Brad Slager at RedState points out that Variety resorts to "fractured language" to refer to Ezra Miller in "the proper fashion." This is very confusing, especially when it involves both talking about a crowd of people at a bar -- who are a real they/them -- and then Ezra Miller, a fake they/them, taunting they/them.

It defeats the entire point of language, which is to communicate clearly.

Also, Variety rewrites -- censors, bowlderizes -- the words of a victim of one of Ezra Miller's most violent assaults, the women whom he choked-slammed to the ground, to put the words "they" and "them" in her mouth, when she consistently referred to her male attacker as "he" and "him."

Nothing like "correcting" the victim to accord with her assailant's preferences.

That said, here is Variety's account from two of Miller's victims, who have been relatively silent until now.

In the spring of 2020, as the COVID crisis was rapidly becoming a global pandemic, Ezra Miller began wearing out their welcome in Iceland.

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"There was always something with Ezra," said Carlos Reynir, then a bartender at Prikith Kaffihús, a pub located in the heart of Reykjavík.

Reynir said he intervened in two altercations at Prikith involving Miller. The first was a heated argument between Miller and a male patron that began as banter but ended in the actor putting the man in a chokehold and later slapping him. Reynir, who broke up the fight, says Miller later apologized, and the other patron quickly shrugged it off as a joke. The actor was allowed to continue frequenting the bar.

"We just brushed it off as two friends getting drunk and getting in a fight," Reynir said. "It's Iceland. That happens twice a weekend."

But the next altercation, in which Miller assaulted a young woman at the bar, was harder to discount. The incident grabbed global headlines when footage of Miller placing the woman in a chokehold and then pushing her to the ground went viral online in early April 2020.

Soon after the incident, Variety spoke with the woman Miller assaulted; she recently confirmed that her comments could be printed for this article. She asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her privacy, as she's telling her story publicly for the first time.

In the blurry video, Miller is seen confronting the woman -- who is smiling and waving her arms as she walks toward them -- and asking, "Do you want to fight? Is that what you do?" After Miller grabs her neck, she lets out an audible gasp. The person filming the video stopped to intervene, Variety has confirmed.

According to three sources, the woman had been speaking to Miller at the bar prior to the quarrel. She said she inquired about the actor's feet -- visible in flip-flops -- after noticing some wounds, which Miller explained were battle scars from a fight. After discussing how they got them, she began to walk away, but turned around and joked, "But just so you know, I could take you in a fight." Miller replied, "You really want to fight?" and the woman told them to meet her in the smoking area in two minutes.

Eventually, Miller confronted her outside the bar.

"I think it's just fun and games -- but then it wasn't," she said.

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But then a friend of the woman approached Miller and told them that he'd heard the actor didn't want to fight. "My friend didn't have to say that," the woman allowed. "It was just a joke, obviously -- but [Miller] took that literally and got super mad and came running outside." That's when one of the woman's friends started recording.

"I think it's just fun and games -- but then it wasn't," she said. "All of a sudden, [they're] on top of me, choking me, still screaming in my face if I want to fight. My friend who's filming sees [they're] obviously not joking and it's actually serious, so he stops filming, and pushes [them] off me as [they're] still trying to fight me. Two guy friends of mine are actually holding [Miller] back as [they're] screaming, 'This is what you wanted! This is what you wanted!'" (At the time of the interview, it was unclear whether the woman was aware Miller uses they/them pronouns.)

The woman said Miller spat in her friend's face "multiple times" -- an affront that was dangerous in the early, pre-vaccine days of the pandemic. (Variety in 2020 confirmed Miller's actions with her friend, who also wished to remain anonymous.) Eventually, she said, a bartender -- Reynir -- ran outside to break up the fight.

Reynir had arrived early for his shift that day and had seen the woman in the smoking area with her friends and Miller. When he saw the situation "going way out of hand," he decided to get involved.

"[Miller] grabs me by the throat as I'm trying to usher them out the [back] door and tells me they're not leaving," Reynir said. He added that Miller repeatedly claimed that the woman's friends had pushed them. "Which they didn't," the bartender said.

"They proceeded to spit in my face several times, so with the final push I closed and locked the door," he added.

Another woman, Nadia, who will only allow her first name to be used, also had a similar experience with Miller, in which it seemed like a joke -- until it wasn't.

Nadia (she requested that only her first name be used, out of concern for her privacy)... alleges in an interview with Variety that after a warm, two-year friendship with Miller, mostly via text message, the actor came to her Berlin apartment late one evening in February 2022 at her invitation. They hadn't seen each other since they had a consensual sexual encounter in 2020. But after a friendly interaction, Miller's mood sharply turned when she told them that they couldn't smoke inside her home.

"That just set them off," Nadia said. "I asked them to leave about 20 times, maybe more. They started insulting me. I'm a 'transphobic piece of shit.' I'm a 'Nazi.' It became so, so stressful for me. They were going around my house, looking at everything, touching everything, spreading tobacco leaves on the floor. It felt disgusting and very intrusive."

After roughly a half-hour of pleading, Nadia said she finally convinced Miller to leave once she called the police. The incident left her deeply disturbed. While she is clear that she never felt at risk of sexual assault that night in her apartment, she believed the actor "could somehow attack me physically."

"I totally felt unsafe," she said.

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They talked. She gave them tea and vegetable soup. Then Miller began to roll a cigarette.

"I was like, 'Yeah, you need to smoke this outside or on the balcony. There's no smoking in my house,'" she said.

Miller kept rolling their cigarette. Nadia insisted they smoke outside. Instantly, their demeanor changed.

"And this I'm quoting word for word," she said. "They started with 'I'm a maker of planets. Tobacco is sacred.'" Miller continued on a "tirade," she said, that they could do "whatever they want whenever they want, basically." When Nadia stood up to insist that guests should honor their host's house rules, "they looked at me with this really mean, stern face, and told me, 'Sit down,' like they were ordering a dog." Nadia told Miller as much. Their reply, she said, was "Yes, I'm talking to you like a dog."

"I said, 'OK, if you talk to me like this, it's time for you to go,'" she said.

But Miller didn't. Instead, they escalated, accusing Nadia of being "transphobic" and a "Nazi."

"I asked them if they remember I told them I'm a descendant of Holocaust survivors, so why would they say that to me?" she said. "They answered, screaming at me, 'Yes, but how many people of my family died?' Because many people in their family died. I was like, Oh, OK, this is a game of who's got the most trauma."

So, Nadia disengaged. "The only thing I said to them was 'Leave my house. Go away. Go away. Leave. Can you leave now?'" she said. "Like a broken record."

Miller persisted, stalking her apartment. "I told them I was calling the police because they were refusing to leave," she said. "And while I was calling the police, Ezra was calling the police -- or pretending to call the police. I don't know."

Miller entered Nadia's bedroom, and when she told them to leave, "they started to shout that they were a rape survivor and I was triggering them," she said. "They started to say I had assaulted them. I had beat them up. I had hurt them."

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Five people -- two friends, a women's rights advocate, a German social worker, and Nadia's German lawyer -- told Variety that they spoke with Nadia soon after her alleged encounter with Miller and corroborated her account. In April, Nadia filed a criminal complaint about her experience, which Variety has confirmed with the German State Prosecutor's Office in Berlin. While the prosecutor was investigating a charge of trespassing against Miller, their office says that it has discontinued its proceedings since the actor is no longer in Germany.

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Nadia realized she wasn't alone in her experience with the actor. "It seems to be a pattern," she said. "They jet-set abuse."

"They." She means "He jet-sets abuse."

Meanwhile, this guy's "hosting" 12 year olds at his illegal pot farm.

But he's Protected, because he's a They.

Midnight's Edge reports that David Zazlov, the new head of Discovery/AT&T/Warner and therefore the head of the company that is producing Ezra Miller's Flash, can be heard screaming all throughout the floor whenever a new Ezra Miller story drops.

Who was it that pushed Ezra Miller? Who got him gigs on all these high-profile projects?

Did he, as some suspect, have kompromat on people? He was a child actor. Did some bigwigs take turns with him?

By the way, why is everyone pretending that powerful men yelling when they are disappointed or thwarted is some new thing? Does no one remember the stories about the Secret Service having to intervene when Hillary Clinton was throwing ash-trays at then-President Clinton's head?

Are we just all lying to prove that Trump is a liar? Have we all just accepted that lies are the new currency in this Empire of Lies?

Ellen Page says her pronouns are "he/they," showing that Ellen Page does not understand how pronouns work.

I guess she was smoking pot when she was supposed to be studying with her on-set tutor.

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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