{"id":205750,"date":"2026-04-22T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205750\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:27","slug":"miriam-yarimi-owned-killing-3-in-crash-when-facing-prison-now-shes-blaming-a-medical-epsiode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205750\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Yarimi owned killing 3 in crash when facing prison; now she’s blaming a ‘medical epsiode’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wigmaker Miriam Yarimi, who mowed down<\/a> a Brooklyn mom and her two young children with her speeding luxury sedan, is now claiming in a civil action that she\u2019s not liable because she blacked out during an medical episode \u2014 despite taking \u201cfull responsibility\u201d at her sentencing.<\/p>\n

Yarimi, 33, who\u2019s serving a three-to-nine year sentence<\/a> for manslaughter, is being sued by her victims\u2019 family. She filed an affidavit in Brooklyn Supreme Court last week in an attempt to stave off a summary judgment in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter traveling on Ocean Parkway for approximately five seconds, I had a medical emergency which caused me to lose consciousness,\u201d Yarimi wrote,<\/a> saying that when she came to, her airbag was deploying right before her Audi A3 flipped over. \u201cIt is my contention that but for the medical emergency that I experienced this accident would not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ThreeThree people \u2014 an adult and two children \u2014 were killed Saturday, March 29, 2025, after a blue Audi collided with a silver Toyota Camry Uber and careened toward a small group walking on Ocean Pkwy. near Quentin Rd. in Brooklyn. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a far cry from her weepy statement<\/a> before Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun in November, when she said, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of sorrow and pain, remorse, regret I feel in my heart for causing such an unspeakable tragedy. I accept full responsibility for my actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yarimi admitted under oath<\/a>\u00a0that her recklessness caused the fatal crash when she pleaded guilty before Chun in October.<\/p>\n

Yarimi was speeding north on Ocean Parkway in Midwood, her pedal to the floor and the odometer at 68 mph, when she ran through a red light and crashed her Audi A3 into a Toyota Camry Uber at Quentin Road on March 29, 2025. She then plowed into Natasha Saada, 35, and her three children, Diana, 8, Deborah, 5, and Philip, 4, who were crossing Ocean Parkway in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n

Of the Saada family, only little Philip survived.<\/p>\n

\"MiriamMiriam Yarimi cries as she reads a statement before being sentenced to 3-9 years for manslaughter in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Nov. 19, 2025. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an outrageous, if not, quite frankly, disgusting maneuver, trying to avoid a civil damages claim by changing her excuse for the accident,\u201d said lawyer Hershel Kulefsky, who\u2019s representing the Saada family. \u201d It\u2019s disgusting. If it\u2019s a penny out of her pocket in a civil case, she\u2019ll make another excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of her civil lawsuit defense, Yarimi is suing the owner and driver of the Uber she struck as a third-party defendant,<\/a> claiming \u201ctheir negligence was the proximate cause of the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yarimi\u2019s lawyer, Michael Maddaloni, did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"NatashaNatasha Saada (2nd from left) was killed Saturday, March 29, 2025, with two of her children when they were fatally struck by an unlicensed driver on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, police said. At right, Diana Saada, 8, and Deborah Saada, 5, were killed, and their 4-year-old brother was critically injured in the crash. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

Right after the crash, Yarimi told cops, \u201cThe devil is in my eyes. I am haunted inside. I didn\u2019t kill anyone. I didn\u2019t hurt anyone. Prove it. Show me the proof. You have no proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

She demanded a CT scan for her eyes and said she\u2019d been \u201craped by cops\u201d at age 14, echoing allegations she made 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.<\/p>\n

Yarimi discussed faking mental illness in one recorded jail call to her ex last year, according to prosecutors, and in another call, when her ex suggested she apologize, she told him, \u201cWhy should I apologize? I\u2019m just as much of a victim as they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chun offered her sentence in exchange for a guilty plea over the objection of prosecutors, who were asking for the maximum of five to 15 years. She could be eligible for parole as early as March 2028.<\/p>\n

\"MiriamMiriam Yarimi looks to the audience as she is led out of court after being sentenced to 3-9 years for manslaughter in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Nov. 19, 2025. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Yarimi was on her phone and blew several red lights before the crash, and had a suspended license for a lapse in her insurance.<\/p>\n

Her car, which has the vanity plate \u201cWIGM8KER,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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