Miya Taylor Ponsetto is a former cheerleader raised in Simi Valley, Ventura County, California, United States. She has also lived in other areas of California including Sun Valley and Piru.
On December 26, 2020, Ponsetto was caught on camera attacking black American jazz musician Keyon Harrold, then 40, and his son Keyon Harrold Jr., then 14, at the Arlo SoHo Boutique Hotel in New York City, New York, USA. She falsely accused the younger Harrold of stealing her iPhone.
Because of this, Ponsetto was dubbed the SoHo Karen. Prior to the incident, most of her favorite items on her Etsy profile were iPhone cases.
According to Ponsetto, she is of Italian, Puerto Rican, Greek and Vietnamese descent. Here are 13 more things about her:
- In 2016, she graduated from Simi Valley High School where she was a member of the cheerleading squad.
- In August 2019, she lived with a man in an apartment in Sun Valley. The property company that owns the apartment sued them in Los Angeles Superior Court because they failed to pay $1,250 in rent.
- On February 28, 2020, she and her mother Nicole Claudine Ponsetto appeared intoxicated and refused to leave The Peninsula Beverly Hills, a 5-star hotel on South Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. When Beverly Hills Police Department officers arrived, her mother pushed and kicked one of the officers. She and her mother were both arrested.
- On May 27, 2020, the Los Angeles County District Attorney charged her and her mother with being intoxicated in public. Her mother was also charged with battery on a police officer. They were expected to appear in court on January 28, 2021.
- On May 28, 2020, she was arrested by the West Los Angeles California Highway Patrol for driving with a suspended license and failure to obey traffic lane near Calabasas, California. She was charged with two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol, one count of driving on a suspended license and one count of unlawful use of a driver’s license.
- On September 28, 2020, she pleaded no contest to her DUI charge and was sentenced to a three-year probation and three days in jail or 30 hours of community service in lieu of payment of $390 in fines. She was ordered to enroll in a nine-month alcohol and drug education and counseling program.
- She was 22 years old when she encountered Keyon and Keyon Jr. on December 26, 2020.
- On January 1, 2021, a male New York Post photographer spotted her at a McDonald’s parking lot in Fillmore, Ventura County. She told him, “I’m actually 22 so I don’t know what the problem is here and I’m also Puerto Rican so thank you.”
- On January 7, 2021, “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King interviewed her. Hours after the interview, Ventura County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested her in California after a brief car chase.
- On January 8, 2021, she appeared in court via video in Ventura County where she was jailed. She agreed to be transported back to New York to face charges.
- On June 30, 2021, a New York County grand jury indicted her on two counts of unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. Represented by Paul D’Emilia, she pleaded not guilty.
- In February 2022, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office offered her a deal in which she would plead guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime and serve two years of probation in California.
- On April 11, 2022, she pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime for the December 6, 2020 incident in exchange for two years’ probation.
Before Miya Ponsetto was identified as the SoHo Karen, we conducted a poll on Twitter. Here are the results:
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The word Christian should not be associated with this ‘Karen’,
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typical Christian
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Typical hater Liberal!
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TRUE
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I’m Christian. I believe what she did was not a Christian value. But to say that is a typical Christian is wrong. Same thing with the reply below calling you a Hater Liberal. Trump ruined this country’s civility. We are all supposed to be civil towards each other. Even if you don’t like that person, you should have respect for everyone.
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There are no liberals living in Simi Valley, California
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She’s Latino = Catholic or a disgrace to her race
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The name ‘Karen’ should never be associated with a Chicano!
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SHE HAS NOT RUN INTO THE RIGHT PERSON YET!! TO PUT HER IN HER PLACE.( ALL SHE NEEDS IS A GOOD OLD FASHION ASS WHIPPIN) POOR CHILD IS GOING TO COME UP MISSING ONE OF THESE DAYS, IF SHE DOESN`T CHANGE HER WAYS.
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She self-identifies as Puerto Rican, Chicanos are of Mexican ancestry.
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To say she shouldnt be associated with christians, is to truly be the reason you need God…
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She owes that young man a huge apology; what a PSYCHO
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She’s had a very busy year of run-ins with the law. Make sure she pays for this last one. She needs to grow up and learn a lesson or two. Some jail time should do it.
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Under NY bail reform law this will be considered a misdemeanor.
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Indeed!
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Good thing she was not a blond hair blue eyed lady. So not only does Simi Valley have racist whites they have racist Hispanics too. Go figure. I thought only white people could be racist.
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You racist bitch, You luck I wasn’t my child I would still be beating your racist ass!
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Amen. I would have beaten her into another dimension. She wouldn’t have had time to flee.
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Chicanos are tough… better check yourself on those threats!
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This ain’t no white girl… you might wanna think twice about making threats to a Chicano girl from East LA!
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HEY JUAN, WHY YOU ON THE DICK DEFENDING THIS GIRL, SHE IS MIXED THAT MAKES HER A MUTT. YOU ARE CONSIDERED PUERTO RICAN WHEN BOTH PARENTS ARE PUERTO RICAN. SHE IS HALF BREED, DILUTED. IT`S AN INSULT TO REAL PUERTO RICANS!!! PLEASE. I`M FROM NYC THAT SHIT DOES`NT FLY HERE. YOU GET FUCK UP FROM THE FLOOR UP AS WE SAY CHICANO OR NOT.
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Shes not white. Just sayin…..
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No, she is BROWN, if she is white I am Chinese
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True…but doesn’t make what she did any less than what it was. Actually makes it worse because SHE THINKS she is white. Self-loathing POS.
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shes puerto rican and vietnameses
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True…but doesn’t make what she did any less than what it was. Actually makes it worse because SHE THINKS she is white. Self-loathing POS.
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She’s Chicano… where do you get that she thinks she’s white?
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Next time lock your phone and onlyfans app. You’ll be less likely to lose your shit when you lose your shit.
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How DARE she attack this child..put her hands on him. I would have beaten her to a pulp. She would not have been able to run off anywhere after I was done with her.
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Definitely mental health issues here. But who says she made accusations she deliberately knew were false like Susan Smith in South Carolina twenty years back? Definitely a worrisome disorderly conduct mental breakdown, but really changing her with deliberately concocting a story they knew to be false? (I.E. Jessie Smolette with his “Afternoon Special Tele-script” fake “hate crime”) This incident is being distorted into a display of female hysteria into something it isn’t out of this same lying pinko media agenda we’ve been bombarded with since that petty copper thief running away from being caught trespassing in Georgia was given the big lie treatment about “just being out jogging.”
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Was the death penalty proper even if he was a copper thief? Yuck! Thank GOD you don’t control justice.
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Look, stop it. The fact of the matter is you don’t go attacking someone’s kid, putting your hands on this child. Mental issues, my ass. If she was mentally ill, she would not have known to flee. Please.
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“Mental breakdown” versus black people. How convenient.
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Thank you for the information Marky. I suspect Antifa Sacramento will be happy to discuss this matter with Miya and her family.
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The liberal media and the black racist family already portrait this as a racist attack by a ‘white’ woman and will sue not this ‘Hispanic’ racist but the hotel for huge financial gain. Yes, there will always be ‘white’ racists, but the fact is there are more ‘black’ and ‘Hispanic’ racists ready and waiting to use the word for financial gain!!
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Lol..black racists? Just like someone LIKE YOU to ignore what actually happened here and blame the victim, you piece of shyt.
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Yes many black racist…many…
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Jessie whoever, look up the definition of racism and then come back here and reword your response. I don’t have time for ignorance. Furthermore, this is about this terrible human being attacking a child for no reason. Stick to the damn topic, bigot.
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Jessie whoever, look up the definition of racism and then come back here and reword your response. I don’t have time for ignorance. Furthermore, this is about this terrible human being attacking a child for no reason. Stick to the damn topic, bigot.
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Hi, did you know you’re gay? It seems like you are trying to come out, safe space here to do it! much love! Also, we all looked up the “definition” in the “dictionary,” and it doesn’t support your “theory” that black people can’t be racist. They can be, shucks!
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To deescalate a sticky situation…if I were the kid’s Pepi…I would have politely asked SoHo Karen to make the Manager of the Hotel…lurking nearby…to call her phone number and see if the phone in kid’s hand rings. End of story. No violence. No yelling. No cops involved. This is called civility. Why didn’t Pepi do this simple thing?
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Because she would have claimed the phone was off. That’s how Karen’s work.
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Exactly! Thank you.
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Also, like the Dad says, the son owes here .. nada … You can’t go around accusing people of stealing your stuff without proof.
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Because he doesn’t have to bow down to an unreasonable foolish person. He has all his rights per the bill of rights no need to compromise, sacrifice or settle for less.
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You are completely right. This is exactly what I thought. … why did not happen! Seems everybody is seeking something to make them famous and financial gain.
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Could we also remove the word VN from her bio? I hate that she has anything to do with my ethnic group. She’s disgusting. Stand more than 6 feet from this skank.
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💗💗💗
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“attractive” young lady hanging out in upscale hotels she cannot possibly afford…..
Hmmmmmmm……
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I hope she goes to jail….and is forced to clean dirty carpets.
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She’s as ‘Latina’ as Clooney’s wife
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She drives a Range Rover. She has a long arrest file. She’s christian rich and feels the law is below her. She’s not Puerto Rican. She grew up in Simi Valley.
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She’s puerto rican and vietnamese
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