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A jury awarded $176 million to the family of two young boys killed by Los Angeles socialite Rebecca Grossman, finding both her and her former professional baseball player lover liable for the deadly crash.
Grossman and Scott Erickson were both found negligent in the death of 11-year-old Mark and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander Wednesday. The decision, reached by a jury, determined $176 million in damages. She will also be on the hook for punitive damages to be determined Thursday.
Grossman, who wasconvicted of murder for killing the two young boyswith her car during a chase with Erickson, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in 2024.
The California appeals courtrejected Grossman’s final bid to overturnher conviction and keep her behind bars with no early release and no reprieve in a decision in March.
The tragedy unfolded in 2020 when Grossman’s SUV slammed into Mark and Jacob Iskander in a marked crosswalk.
Also drawing scrutiny was Scott Erickson, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who was driving a separate car nearby,raising questions about whether the pair had been speeding together. Erickson, however, was never charged.
Erickson finally addressed the tragedy when he took the stand last month in the wrongful death trial.He testified that he sped up when he spotted two young boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk moments before they werefatally struckin 2020.
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“I stepped on the gas for probably two or three seconds to get through, because I thought that was the safest process,” Erickson told the Van Nuys courtroom on May 13 during thewrongful death trialtied to the deaths of brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8.
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