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, 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, rolled on the sidewalk, and killed a mother and two children, ages 8 and 6, 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.
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.
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