10 things about Brooklyn, New York wigmaker Miriam Yarimi

Miriam Elisheva Yarimi is an American woman from Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. She is known to the New York City Police Department both as a crime victim and a crime suspect.

BIOGRAPHY

Yarimi is a professional wigmaker. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She goes by the name Ellie.
2. She is a former resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
3. She has one daughter.
4. She accused New York City Police Department officer George Mastrokostas of falsely arresting, imprisoning, kissing and raping her in 2006.
5. In 2010, she reported Mastrokostas to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB).
6. In 2022, Mastrokostas was removed from the NYPD for offenses allegedly not related to her accusations against him.
7. In 2023, she sued the NYPD and won $2 million.
8. In September 2024, she turned 32.
9. She had $10,000 of unpaid fines and her blue 2023 Audi A3 with a vanity plate “WIGM8KER” racked up more than 93 traffic violations before driving it on March 25, 2025 and slamming into her fellow Brooklyn residents Natasha Saada, 35, Diana Saada, 8, Debra Saada, 6, and Philip Saada, then 4.
10. The three people she killed on March 25, 2025 were buried in Israel while she was hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City and awaiting arraignment. 

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TIMELINE

As of March 31, 2025, Yarimi has 16,100 followers on Instagram. She is 18 years younger than Mastrokostas, who was an NYPD officer from July 2004 to January 2022.

2006

• In July 2006, Mastrokostas allegedly falsely arrested and imprisoned her.
• In August 2006, Mastrokostas allegedly approached her while on duty, directed her to get inside his patrol car and kissed her. A week later, he allegedly raped her in Brooklyn.

2010

• On August 17, 2010, she went to the IAB to report that Mastrokostas was compelling her to engage in sexual intercourse with him. NYPD deputy inspector Kim Royster was involved in the investigation. After being interviewed by the IAB, she was allegedly subjected to harassment from Mastrokostas and nine other NYPD officers including a traffic stop where she and her mother were handcuffed, searched and threatened.

2023

• On June 16, 2023, she filed a lawsuit against the city of New York, the NYPD, Royster, Mastrokostas and nine other NYPD officers.

2024

• On December 1, 2024, she took to TikTok to claim that Marilyn Monroe was killed because Monroe was spilling secrets to Fidel Castro from the Central Intelligence Agency.

2025

• On January 2, 2025, she posted on TikTok a video of herself saying, “Are you tired of stalking me? Tired of constantly watching my page from a fake account, talking about me to all of your friends and simply being a f–king weirdo? Then you need to call a psychiatric ward, because, bitch, you’re obsessed.”
• On March 16, 2025, she had a ticket for speeding through a school zone in Brooklyn.
• On March 20, 2025, she took to TikTok to claim that Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing on March 6, 2025, was kidnapped and sex-trafficked in the Dominican Republic as part of a conspiracy.
• On March 23, 2025, she took to Instagram to claim that she had found a hidden camera in her bathroom.
• At around 1:00 p.m. on March 29, 2025, while driving her Audi on a suspended license, she stopped at a red light on Ocean Parkway by Quentin Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, failed to yield, rear-ended a 2023 Toyota Camry driven by a man, 65, and careened into Natasha and Natasha’s children Diana, Debra and Philip, who were crossing the street in a crosswalk. Natasha, Diana and Debra died while Philip was critically injured. Hours after the crash, she was arrested and charged with speeding, reckless driving, failing to yield, driving with an unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, four counts of second-degree assault and three counts each of second-degree assault, manslaughter and criminal negligent homicide.