Sami is Salma Hayek’s lone sibling, and she recently referred to him as “the best brother on earth” due to their strong relationship.
Therefore, when the actress learned that he had been engaged in a deadly vehicle incident in 2014, it was undoubtedly a very worrying period.
Sami, who has his own furniture design firm, was taken to the hospital right away after a pickup truck struck the automobile he was driving.
Tragically, his companion, Grammy-winning creative director Ian Cuttler Sala, suffered severe blunt force damage in the crash and passed away at the site.
Sami received treatment at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for multiple broken ribs and facial injuries. Alvin Javier Gomez, the pickup’s driver, who was 20 at the time, was also sent to the hospital for discomfort in his body and a broken foot.
Sami filed legal documents to sue Ford in 2016, alleging that the $165,000 2005 Ford GT sports car he was driving, which belonged to Salma and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, had a technical issue that resulted in his friend’s demise.
At the time, Sami told TMZ that the transaxle in the automobile suffered a “catastrophic failure,” sending too much power to one of the rear wheels and sending the vehicle careening into oncoming traffic.
Sami allegedly claimed in the lawsuit that because similar instances had been recorded before to his crash, Ford was aware of the “need to conduct a recall.”
Lt. Andrew Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Department reported that no evidence of alcohol or drug use contributed to the collision at the time of the accident.
He did concede, though, that Sami might have been going too fast, which might have led to him losing control of the powerful car.
He said at the time that “there was a loss of control that sent him fishtailing.” Following the collision, Sgt. Stephanie Krajchir added to KTLA: “Too much speed on a curved route, tried to over-correct and regrettably crossed into opposing lanes.”
Sami’s complaint against Ford and the outcome of the investigation doesn’t seem to have been made public.
