Glam wigmaker Miriam Yarimi accused of killing mom, 2 young kids in horrific Brooklyn crash charged with manslaughter
The Brooklyn wigmaker accused of fatally mowing down a mother and her two young daughters has been charged with manslaughter and criminal negligent homicide for the horrific Saturday crash.
Miriam Yarimi, 32, who cops said was driving her Audi A4 on a suspended license, careered into a crowd of pedestrians, killing the mom and girls ages 8 and 4 as they left Shabbat services in Gravesend, according to police. The victim’s 4-year-old son is in critical condition in the hospital.
Yarimi now faces three counts of second-degree manslaughter, three counts of criminally negligent homicide and four counts of second-degree assault for smashing into the pedestrians on Ocean Parkway, police told The Post on Sunday.
The incident began when Yarimi’s Audi collided with a Toyota Camry Uber. The impace caused her luxury sedan to plow into nine pedestrians in the crosswalk in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.
Horrifying dashcam footage posted on X by @NYScanner shows the Audi smashing into mom Natasha Saada and her three children — Diana, 7, Deborah, 5, and 4-year-old Philip — as they crossed the road.
The overturned Audi barely misses other pedestrians, the clip shows.
“Really, really tragic tragedy,” said Mayor Eric Adams during a church stop Sunday — right before visiting the dead victims’ home.
“Number one, the person should not have been on the road,” he said of Yarimi. [They have a] suspended license. We’re going to ensure that this is investigated to the full extent.
“My heart goes out to the family,” Adams added.
Yarimi, a 32-year-old mom of one 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.”
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Her photo shows her proudly showing off the fatal car.
When approached at the Brooklyn home of the victims, a family friend told The Post that the surviving little boy “needs our prayers. He’s in the hospital. He needs our prayers.”
Yarimi’s estranged husband declined to comment to The Post when reached at his home Sunday.
Yarimi previously settled a lawsuit against the NYPD for $2 million after she alleged she was sexually assaulted by an officer when she was 14.
Her driving record has been allegedly dismal: The Audi racked up over 93 traffic violations on “WIGM8KER” including 20 speeding tickets, with more than $10,000 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 March 16, records showed. Since August 2023, her Audi has received 20 speed-camera tickets and five red-light tickets, as well as dozens of parking infractions.
A funeral for Saada and her two young children is scheduled for later Sunday, with the bodies then to be transported to Israel from JFK airport, sources said.
Additional reporting by Joe Marino and Hannah Fierick
