The daughter of disgraced NBC host Matt Lauer crashed her car into a fence and a sign and tried to flee, leaving her license plate behind.
Romy Lauer, 20, was driving the Jeep Wrangler in the Hamptons during a trip with friends over the Fourth of July weekend.
They spent part of the holiday partying at Kissaki Sushi in Water Mill, as seen in her TikTok video, but around 4 a.m. on July 5, she was on a trip to Southampton.
A North Sea Mecox Road resident was awakened by a loud bang and called 911 concerned that someone had been seriously injured in the crash.
Romy Lauer, 20, was driving the Jeep Wrangler in the Hamptons during a trip with friends over the Fourth of July weekend when she crashed her car into a fence.
Matt Lauer took his daughter and her friend to the Hamptons to celebrate her 18th birthday on October 2, 2021.
When local police arrived, they found a fence and a sign torn down, but no sign of a vehicle except the license plate, a source said. The New York Post.
Romy was issued a citation for leaving the scene of an accident and is being represented by prominent attorney Edward Burke, who defended her father.
Romy studies finance at the University of Miami, where she met her boyfriend of one year, Spanish tennis player Antonio Pratt.
However, he seems to spend much of his time going to fancy parties and on luxurious vacations with his equally privileged friends.
Romy was issued a citation for leaving the scene of an accident.
Romy studies finance at the University of Miami, but spends most of her time posting on Instagram and TikTok about luxurious parties and vacations.
Lauer has been holed up mostly on his farm in New Zealand since being fired from the Today show over numerous sexual abuse allegations.
He appeared on Romy’s TikTok in 2019 with some embarrassing dance moves and took her to the Hamptons for her 18th birthday on October 2, 2021.
Lauer was spotted with his daughter, his girlfriend Shamin Abas and one of Romy’s friends eating at Italian restaurant Tutto ll Giorno and having ice cream at Yummylicious.
There was no sign of his mother, Lauer’s ex-wife, Dutch model Annette Roque, who abandoned him as soon as the sexual assault allegations emerged.
In 2006, Roque filed for divorce while pregnant with her third child, Thrijs, alleging “mental abuse, extreme mental and emotional anguish, humiliation, torment and anxiety.”
They reconciled shortly after and did not divorce permanently until September 7, 2019.
Lauer co-hosted Today from 1997 to 2017 and was under contract until the end of 2018 at a salary of $20 million a year when he was fired for cause.
At the time, NBC News President Andrew Lack said it was “the first complaint about his behavior in the more than 20 years he has been at NBC News,” but said he had reason to believe there had been other incidents.
Lauer has been holed up mostly on his farm in New Zealand since being fired from the Today show over numerous sexual abuse allegations.