Danielle Miller grew up the daughter of wealthy Manhattan parents, then became a self-proclaimed con artist. g_bluestone reports on what Miller learned at Horace Mann and Rikers Island
Danielle Miller under house arrest in Soho. Photo: Ashley Pena Danielle Miller walked into Rikers Island at 3 a.m. in the dead of winter, shivering in a flimsy Missoni cover-up, Hervé Léger bathing suit, and Valentino Rockstud heels, carrying a Prada purse — the outfit she’d been wearing when she was arrested on a warrant related to a credit-card scam.
Miller was eventually placed in a different area, where she met another scammer, Ciera Blas, who was locked up for violating parole after she was convicted of identity theft. Blas had been arrested at Bergdorf Goodman in 2015 and was accused of running a ring that skimmed people’s credit cards to fuel a $22,000 shopping binge. On her Instagram account, @It_Girlsz_Closet_, she allegedly took requests for luxury items to lift and resell.
In early 2020, Miller was at a buzzy Upper East Side restaurant when she saw Blas. It was there, Miller says, that Blas first offered her a job. “Oh, you can do something that’s super-easy,” Blas told her, according to Miller. “It’s really not legal. It’s a little bit illegal.” The job was as a “trapper” — someone who could credibly take on the persona of one of their identity-theft victims — but Miller didn’t care for that term.
When Florida threw itself open later that spring, Miller and Blas were ready. Miller is accused of walking into an AT&T store in May 2020 armed with the identity of a Los Angeles woman whose filing cabinet had been stolen by burglars and using the information to take over the woman’s account. Then she and Blas rented a Jaguar and rolled up to a Chase drive-through in Sarasota, where Miller allegedly pulled out a fake passport card with her own photo under the L.A.
That the videos would get out seems obvious now, but in 2004, it was not. Miller and her classmates had never seen something go viral before. “It was one of those things where you heard it from one person and then you heard it from everyone all at the same moment,” a former classmate says. “I remember my brother was also talking about it. His room was right next to mine, and I feel like we both were like, ‘Oh my God,’ at the same moment.
The videos hadn’t circulated just among New York’s private-school students and their friends, though Miller still remembers the name of every classmate who mocked her on a page dedicated to the scandal on the now-defunct social-media site Friendster. The videos also ended up on the file-sharing programs LimeWire and Kazaa.
The former friend also recalls Miller claiming her dad owned their building, despite the family’s living in a perfectly lovely two-bedroom co-op. “If you owned the building, why would you have a fourth-floor apartment that’s two bedrooms? It doesn’t make any sense,” the former friend says. “There were a lot of things like that, where it wasn’t enough to be like, ‘My dad’s a lawyer and we have a second home and we live well.’ It had to be, ‘Oh yeah, we just got it going on.
Nevertheless, in 2012, she graduated and headed west, to Los Angeles, where she spent several months living in a pool-cabana suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and bouncing around entry-level PR jobs.
Weeks later, Brown fielded an angry call from her mother, who had reviewed her bank account and accused her of spending $20,000 in just one month. “And so I went to the bank, and I was with my roommate at the time, and we asked them to print out every check that had come out of my checkbook,” Brown says. “All of a sudden, five checks came through that said ‘Danielle Miller.’ She had written them to herself” — including one for the amount of the Chamber of Commerce event.
Miller under house arrest in Soho in 2022. After reuniting with her parents, Miller seemed determined to get her life in order — to return, perhaps, to the path she’d abandoned after Swiffergate. In 2016, she was accepted to Pepperdine University’s law school, even though she says her father “thought I’d be a terrible attorney … He said my ethics were off the wall.
Some time after she was released from custody, Miller’s mother took her to a vegan sushi restaurant in the city. “My mom had lunch with me and was like, ‘Your father doesn’t want to have any communications with you anymore, but I still want to have a relationship,’ and then my mom stopped talking to me,” Miller says.
It was a few months after Dae cut ties with her that Miller was arrested at the San Diego border on the way back from a birthday trip to Mexico with friends. She had been picked up on a warrant issued after she missed a court appearance in New York related to the spa charges. This time, she was represented by a public defender, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to a year minus time served in Rikers — where she met Ciera Blas.
Scammers tend to move from one score to the next, Miller says, riding each opportunity like a wave, and “COVID was a huge wave.” When asked how she learned about waves and how scamming works, Miller made it sound easy. “I literally just researched on the internet. It was very readily available to me. No one taught me it. I just overheard some things while I was in Rikers Island,” she says. “And then I read everything on Telegram. Telegram is really where they talk about a lot of illegal shit.
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