After the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art had a major retrospective exhibition on Paolo Soleri in October 2017, Daniela published an article on the website "Medium" on 13 November 2017 accusing her father of persistent sexual abuse, writing: "In my early adolescence, my father, an architect and craftsman, began sexually molesting me, eventually attempting rape when I was 17." Encouraged to publish the article by the #MeToo movement, Daniela wrote that she had already come forward to many of her father's colleagues but received little response: