Farah Damji (born 9 October 1966), also known as Farah Dan, is a Uganda-born criminal, with multiple convictions pertaining to fraud and stalking, in the United States, South Africa, and United Kingdom. Early life Damji was born in Uganda in 1966, to a multi-millionaire property developer Amir Damji and moved with her family to London in 1970. She is the niece of journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Amir's sister); who refers to her niece's childhood in her autobiography No Place Like Home. Damji has a borderline personality disorder and suffered addictions to cocaine and alcohol. She is married and has two children. Life in the United States During 1993–1995, Damji ran an art gallery in Manhattan and East Hampton. At that time, she rented an apartment for herself. She gave the landlord a cheque she had received for $20, which she had altered to $20,000; when the cheque bounced, the landlord obtained an eviction order and seized her belongings. Damji then forged the signature of the judge assigned to the case and amended the order so that she could get her belongings back. In October 1995, Damji was sentenced to six months in Rikers Island prison, in New York, for those crimes and other crimes related to her art gallery: five counts of grand larceny, possession of a forged instrument, and altering official records. She was also ordered to pay $72,000 to her major victims and given four years' probation. During the time Damji was on probation, she allegedly committed other crimes; when a warrant for her arrest was subsequently issued, she fled the U.S. Damji then went to South Africa; there, she committed further financial crimes, for which she was deported. Life in the United Kingdom Damji then returned to the United Kingdom. There, she founded, and became the publisher and editor of, the lifestyle magazine Another Generation (originally named Indobrit), which folded after nine issues and a high court intellectual property case which she lost as the name ‘Indobrit’ was coined and registered as a trademark by Dr.Anjoom Mukadam. Dozens of writers, photographers, and other contributors to the magazine were either not paid for their work or given cheques that bounced. During this time, she also wrote articles for mainstream and ethnic media, including a regular column in the Birmingham Post, an article in New Statesman, and an article in The Observer. In October 2002, Damji stole a credit card