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Rebecca Grossman, left, and daughter head to Van Nuys courthouse in Los Angeles,
California, on 14 February 2024. Photograph: Irfan Khan/AP
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Rebecca Grossman, left, and daughter head to Van Nuys courthouse in Los Angeles,
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CALIFORNIA SOCIALITE RECEIVES 15 YEARS TO LIFE FOR FATALLY STRIKING TWO BOYS
WITH CAR

‘She acted with disregard for human life,’ a prosecutor said about the deaths of
the Iskander children, eight and 11


Dani Anguiano
Mon 10 Jun 2024 16.54 EDTLast modified on Mon 10 Jun 2024 17.00 EDT
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Rebecca Grossman, the California socialite who was found guilty of murder
earlier this year for fatally striking two children with her car, was sentenced
to 15 years to life in prison.

A Los Angeles county judge on Monday ruled that Grossman should serve two
15-years-to-life sentences concurrently. She will also serve three years for
fleeing the scene concurrently with her other sentences.



She had faced 34 years in prison for her role in the 2020 deaths of Mark
Iskander, 11, and Jacob Iskander, eight.

In February, a jury found Grossman guilty of second-degree murder, gross
vehicular manslaughter, and one felony count of hit-and-run driving resulting in
death. The 60-year-old had recently sought a new trial, but her request was
denied last week.



The sentencing brings to a close the years-long legal saga around the deaths of
the Iskander brothers. Grossman, a cofounder of the Grossman Burn Foundation,
was speeding in her Mercedes SUV through the community of Westlake Village on 29
September 2020 when she fatally struck the two boys at 73mph. The children had
been traveling through a crosswalk on scooters and skates with their family.

During the highly publicized trial, prosecutors said that Grossman had been
driving behind Scott Erickson, a retired Dodgers pitcher who she was allegedly
romantically involved with. The pair had been drinking at a nearby restaurant
before the collision. Moments before she hit the Iskander brothers, she had been
traveling at speeds of 81mph, far above the 45mph speed limit, the prosecution
argued.

“She acted with disregard for human life,’ a prosecutor said during the trial.

Grossman’s defense team had argued that the boys were first struck by another
car, and that her role in the incident was an accident rather than murder.

Prosecutors had asked that Grossman spend the rest of her life in prison,
serving 34 years to life. They said her actions had shown a lack of remorse and
that she had refused to take responsibility. “She has lived a life of privilege
and clearly felt that her wealth and notoriety would buy her freedom,”
prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum.

Grossman’s attorneys and supporters pointed to her work for the Grossman Burn
Foundation, describing her as a “humanitarian”. Her lawyers asked for probation
or a shorter prison term of about 12 years. In a letter to the judge, Grossman
said she was not a murderer.

“My pain, my recognition of the pain the Iskanders suffer and the pain I watch
my family endure, are punishments that I already suffer and will for the rest of
my life,” she wrote.

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