The prosecution has criticized Grossman as a narcissist who believed her „wealth and notoriety would buy her freedom,“ adding that she tried to blame the fatal crash on Erickson.
A Los Angeles socialite, convicted of killing two young boys with her car during a chase with her lover, pleaded to the judge that she has already suffered a lot as she broke down after being sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
Rebecca Grossman, 60, who killed brothers Jacob, 8, and Mark Iskander, 11, in a hit-and-run incident in 2020, pleaded with Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino for leniency. Her lawyers argued for her to be given probation instead of prison time. Prosecutors, however, pushed for the maximum sentence of 34 years to life in state prison. Grossman was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges in February.
No Mercy for Her Crime
Brandolino sentenced her to 15 years to life and ordered her to pay $47,000 in restitution, saying that she was „not a monster as the prosecutors portrayed her to be.“ The judge noted Grossman’s history as a philanthropist in giving her a more lenient sentence.
„I am not a murderer, and I ask you to recognize that true fact,“ Grossman wrote in a letter to the judge — despite being convicted of second-degree murder in February.
„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 added.
„Please consider this suffering when you consider what more punishment to impose on me in this case.
