Exclusive | Driver accused of mowing down mom, her two daughters in NYC crash is big-spending wigmaker who won $2M from NYPD lawsuit
The driver accused of fatally running down a mother and her two daughters in Brooklyn Saturday is a wigmaker who lives a luxe lifestyle and who won $2 million from the NYPD in a lawsuit alleging she was raped by a police officer when she was a minor, according to court documents.Miriam Yarimi, 32, a mother of one, was driving her Audi on a suspended license on Saturday afternoon on Ocean Parkway in Gravesend when she got into a collision with Toyota Camry, and careened into and killed a mother and two children who were leaving Shabbat services, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.Yarimi, who goes by the name “Ellie,” is a wigmaker by profession, something noted by the vanity plate of the Audi in the crash, which reads “WIGM8KER.”On Instagram, Yarimi posed with the seemingly fresh new car back in Aug.2023, showing off her physique and the sporty vehicle’s vanity plate.The bad driver seemed to have a taste for luxury vehicles — posting a video two weeks ago in a yellow Porsche.“POV a year ago I was completely broke, today I built my first Porsche 718 Boxers S (in custom black and white),” she wrote in a caption to the post.Yarimi also regularly boasted a seemingly luxury lifestyle including vacation photos, cruises, and nights out on the town.The 32-year-old sued the NYPD in Kings County Court in June 2023 claiming that when she was 14-years-old she was coerced into sex with a uniformed NYPD officer, court documents show.Records show she won and received $2 million.The deadly driver racked up over 93 traffic violations on “WIGM8KER” including 20 speeding tickets, racking up over $10K in fines, according to the online records site “How’s My Driving.”Those violations include a ticket for speeding through a school zone in Brooklyn on Mar.
16, records showed.Police have not announced whether Yarimi will be charged in the fatal crash that killed a mother and her two children, ages 8 and 6.Yarimi is also a mother of one — dedicating m...