'Driven by … vengeance': Ex-wife who hired murder squad to kill celebrity doctor was full of 'outright greed,' lawsuit says

The woman of a slain California doc is suing his erstwhile woman aft she allegedly hired a hitman to sprout him dormant extracurricular his attraction facility, wherever helium reportedly helped celebrities and athletes flooded addiction.

Authorities accidental 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae organized a posse to weapon down her ex-husband, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, 61, successful an ambush-style murder successful August 2024 extracurricular his Los Angeles clinic.

Now the doctor's wife, Ghazal Simorgh, is suing Ahang Mirshojae and others progressive successful the alleged crippled successful a wrongful death lawsuit.

Ahang Mirshojae divorced the unfortunate astir 2010. Simorgh joined her doc hubby successful 2022 and they person a young girl together.

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"[O]ver the ensuing years consequent to suspect Ahang's divorcement from Hamid Mirshojae, suspect Ahang engaged successful a signifier of harassment, intimidation and aggression toward Hamid Mirshojae, driven mostly by avarice and vengeance," the suit said.

Simorgh alleges the suspect "consistently demanded money" from the doc "due to a operation of her ain reckless spending, inability to negociate her finances, and outright greed."

She was "extremely jealous" that her ex-husband had gotten remarried and fathered different child, and wanted to "destroy" the plaintiffs' lives, the suit claims.

The ex-wife "began to contrive" a strategy to person him killed for fiscal gain, the suit says. She cobbled unneurotic a "gang of individuals," including Evan Hardman, 41, Ashley Rose Sweeting, 41, Sarallah Jawed, 27, and Shawn Randolph, 46, to assistance her transportation retired the plan.

Simorgh alleges the execution was the effect of "weeks of meticulous planning" by Ahang Mirshojae and Hardman, who enlisted the assistance of Sweeting, Jawed and Randolph.

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As Law&Crime previously reported, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the filing of charges against the suspects successful December.

"She's been charged with, effectively, hiring a hitman," Hochman said astatine a press conference.

Ahang Mirshojae is charged with execution and battle with a deadly weapon. According to Hochman, the ex-wife hired Hardman to sneak up down the doc arsenic helium near his Woodland Hills signifier connected August 23, 2024, and sprout him successful the backmost of the caput earlier a getaway operator — Sweeting — helped him fly the scene. Jawed drove Hardman to Texas aft the murder, prosecutors say.

"The fearfulness and betrayal of this transgression are beyond words," Hochman said successful a statement. "The extent of the deceit and unit progressive successful this lawsuit is chilling, and we volition not remainder until justness is served."

Hardman is accused of intentionally sidesplitting the unfortunate by "lying successful wait." Sweeting, who is charged with accessory aft the fact, allegedly drove Hardman to and from the scene. Hardman and Sweeting waited until Hamid Mirshojae walked retired of his bureau astir 5:30 p.m. and the alleged gunman carried retired the execution arsenic helium was entering his car, prosecutors said.

Hochman besides revealed that Ahang Mirshojae allegedly hired Hardman and Jawed to onslaught her ex-husband connected May 3, 2024, and bushed him with a blunt object, reportedly a baseball bat.

Dr. Mirshojae and his ex-wife person had a decade-long ineligible conflict implicit their divorce, Los Angeles NBC affiliate KNBC reported, citing ineligible documents.

Revelations of the doctor's ex-wife allegedly orchestrating the execution person near his household stunned.

"Immediately I commencement reasoning astir my nephews and nieces. Their begetter was killed, and present their parent was the cause. I inactive can't digest it. I don't understand. Taking somebody's life, it's beyond me," his younger member Alireza Mirshojae told KNBC. "It's similar I can't recognize however could idiosyncratic consciousness truthful overmuch choler and resentment, and I don't recognize however idiosyncratic would consciousness to bash thing similar this."

Officers arrested Hardman successful the Houston country and Sweeting successful the San Fernando Valley successful December.

According to his biography connected his website, Hamid Mirshojae worked successful addiction medicine for implicit a decennary and provided exigency attraction for 20 years. It said helium treated "celebrities, movie stars, athletes and galore radical of antithetic walks of life."

"He has helped thousands of patients execute their extremity of having a sober life," the bio said.

Local CW affiliate KTLA reported the doc hailed from Iran. Friends and erstwhile patients spoke highly of him.

"Everyone successful the Woodland Hills area, adjacent successful LA, they cognize him due to the fact that helium was a truly bully doctor," household person Maryem Alaei told KTLA successful the aftermath of the shooting. "Always laughing, ever joking, ever helping people."

Said erstwhile diligent Pamia Mazahrei: "I don't cognize wherefore atrocious things hap to radical who are bully successful this world."