Wig-making social media influencer Miriam Yarimi took a plea deal that will give her three to nine years behind bars for mowing down a mother and her two young children in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.
The 33-year-old Yarimi,, who told cops she was “haunted inside” and had the “devil in my eyes” when she slammed her Audi A3 into Natasha Saada, 35, and her three young children March 29, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter.
Saada died in the crash, as did her two daughters, Deborah, 5, and Diana, 8. Saada’s 4-year-old son, Philip, was critically hurt.
Though prosecutors were asking for the maximum five to 15 years, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun offered her three to nine. Sentencing is scheduled for Wednesday.
“The lives of Natasha Saada and her young daughters were stolen by the callous choices of a chronically reckless driver on Ocean Parkway,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Monday. “Though the proposed sentence falls short of the maximum we sought, it will still send a clear message that reckless driving that ends in tragedy will be met serious penalties.”
Yarimi had a suspended license when she got behind the wheel of her luxury car — which bore a vanity plate reading “WIGM8KER,” a reference to her wig-making business — the afternoon of March 29, cops said.
The car has racked up nearly $11,000 in traffic and parking violations, including 21 speed-camera tickets and five red-light tickets, according to data on howsmydrivingny.nyc.
She was going north on Ocean Parkway when she sped through a red light, crashed into a Toyota Camry Uber and hit Saada and her children. Yarimi’s car flipped upside down in the crash.
Yarimi, who’s been locked up since the crash, was indicted on multiple counts of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault, and could have faced up to 15 years behind bars if convicted at trial of the top count against her.
Her car’s black box data put her speed at 68 mph, nearly three times the speed limit, prosecutors said. The data suggested she had the gas pedal to the floor as she drove, and never hit the brakes before the crash, according to prosecutors.
After the crash, she told police, “The devil is in my eyes. I am haunted inside. I didn’t kill anyone. I didn’t hurt anyone. Prove it. Show me the proof. You have no proof,” according to court filings.
“I was raped by cops when I was 14. I need CT scans in my eyes. I need to get the scanning done now …. Where’s my daughter? My daughter’s always in my heart… . I need to use the bathroom. I don’t want to pee in the pan.”
Her remarks about being raped by cops refers to her allegations in a 2023 lawsuit that an NYPD officer groomed and raped her throughout her teenage years after she was arrested for shoplifting. The city settled her suit for $2 million in December.
A law enforcement source said Yarimi’s lawyers submitted a letter to the judge detailing her difficult life.
Yarimi’s lawyers did not immediately return messages seeking comment Monday.
