Incarcerated California socialite Rebecca Grossman hit with civil lawsuit – as grief-stricken dad and mom of boys she killed in hit-and-run search to probe her $20 million fortune

The dad and mom of two younger boys killed by rich socialite Rebecca Grossman in a horrific hit-and-run automobile crash waited nearly 4 years to see her convicted of homicide and imprisoned for 15 years to life. Now they’re going after her cash.

Of their illegal dying civil lawsuit in opposition to Grossman, 61, Nancy and Karim Iskander have filed a brand new movement asking a Los Angeles decide to allow them to probe the funds of Grossman – who’s estimated to be price $20 million.

The money damages they’re searching for are as but ‘unspecified’ however after they’ve decided precisely how wealthy she is, they’ll be capable to put a greenback determine on how a lot they need from her for the agony and struggling they’ve endured since dropping their two beloved sons, Mark, 11, and eight-year-old Jacob.

‘In gentle of defendant Rebecca Grossman’s 5 felony convictions and all of the proof up to now, there’s a substantial chance’ that the Iskanders will prevail (win) on their declare,’ the still-grieving couple’s attorneys say in new court docket paperwork discovered by DailyMail.com on the fourth anniversary of the boys’ tragic deaths, September 29 2020.

The Iskander’s movement for an order permitting them to look at Grossman’s ‘monetary situation,’ condemns her conduct which ‘consists of deliberately racing her car at harmful speeds whereas below the affect of medicine and alcohol after which later making an attempt to flee the scene after she hit each boys….

‘Is that this conduct vile, base and contemptible? Does this conduct have character of shock continuously related to crime? The solutions are most assuredly YES.’

The Iskanders must wait till a listening to scheduled for April 17 subsequent 12 months when LA Superior Courtroom Decide Huey Cotton will determine whether or not or to not grant them permission to delve into Grossman’s funds.

It was on February 23 this 12 months, after a six week trial, {that a} jury discovered Grossman, 61, responsible of all 5 expenses in opposition to her, two counts of second diploma homicide, two of gross vehicular manslaughter and certainly one of hit-and-run leading to dying. She was sentenced to fifteen years to life in jail.

Jurors didn’t purchase her protection workforce’s rivalry that it was her boyfriend, ex baseball star Scott Erickson’s black Mercedes SUV – not Grossman’s white Mercedes – that was liable for killing the Iskander boys as they walked throughout a marked crosswalk in Westlake Village, west of LA. 

The 2 – who had been relationship whereas Grossman was separated from her husband, acclaimed plastic surgeon Peter Grossman – had been sharing margaritas earlier within the day and had been racing one another at greater than 70mph, with Erickson’s automobile simply in entrance of Grossman’s, when the crash occurred.

Erickson, 57, obtained solely a slap-on-the-wrist reckless driving misdemeanor quotation on account of the accident.

However the Iskanders have named him as a defendant alongside Grossman of their wrongful dying civil lawsuit, slamming him for racing along with her on the day of the accident and saying his ‘despicable conduct performed a considerable consider inflicting the deadly collision’.

‘Erickson personally noticed Grossman crash into the 2 youngsters….however he stored driving and fled the scene…..he most well-liked to flee….he did nothing to assist the 2 youngsters,’ they continued. 

Erickson – who performed for six MLB groups, together with the LA Dodgers, throughout his 15-year baseball profession – has employed attorneys to battle the Iskanders’ accusations and he filed a movement to ’strike’ or cancel their criticism in opposition to him.

The movement to strike was rejected however Erickson continues to be vehemently denying wrongdoing, and now he’s battling with Grossman’s attorneys within the civil case over their efforts to subpoena his driving information from the California Division of Motor Autos.

Erickson’s attorneys have filed a movement to ‘quash’ or nullify that subpoena request and Decide Cotton will rule on his movement at a listening to November 4.

If he loses within the jury trial the Iskanders are asking for, Erickson – as soon as married to actress turned TV sportscaster and reporter Lisa Guerrero – may face a significant monetary hit.

However Grossman and her husband Peter – who can be named within the civil lawsuit because the proprietor of the white BMW that hit the boys and the one who pays the insurance coverage on the car – are a a lot wealthier targets for the Iskanders of their pursuit of money damages as some compensation for the heart-rending lack of their two younger sons.

Peter Grossman, 61, is medical director of Grossman Burn Facilities, a multi-million greenback medial company with trendy, state-of-the-art hospitals in West Hills, CA, Bakersfield, CA and Kansas Metropolis, Mo.

Grossman Burn Facilities was based by Peter’s plastic surgeon father, Dr. Richard Grossman, who died at age 81 in 2014, leaving an property estimated at greater than $20 million.

The present facilities – which specialize within the remedy and reconstruction of burn accidents – have cared for a lot of rich and well-known sufferers, together with Jay Leno who went to Grossman when he was burned in a storage fuel hearth in 2022 and actress Anne Heche who suffered deadly burns in a fiery automobile crash the identical 12 months.

Texas-born Rebecca Grossman helped run the philanthropic wing of the household empire, the Grossman Burn Basis, typically internet hosting star-studded galas and fund raisers to assist gather the funds to pay for the remedy of burn victims who aren’t so effectively off.

However exterior the Grossman Burn Basis, in line with numerous printed studies, she’s had a profitable solo enterprise profession in medical advertising and marketing, expertise and actual property, plus a visitor host spot on ABC7 Eyewitness Information.

All this – added to some shrewd investments – add as much as an estimated private price of $20 million for Rebecca, who reportedly went to UCLA and has a level in economics.

Earlier than – and through – her homicide trial Grossman was residing along with her husband in an opulent, nine-bedroom, ranch-style Hidden Hills residence price round $9 million and situated in a gated neighborhood that boasts close to neighbors like Kylie Jenner and former Full Home TV star Lori Loughlin.

However that shortly modified when jurors convicted her. The $2 million bail she had been free on for greater than three years was instantly revoked and she or he was despatched to the infamous Twin Towers jail in downtown LA to await her sentencing.

After her 15-year sentence was handed, she was transferred to the Central California Girls’s Facility in Chowchilla round 250 miles northwest of LA.

Final month, she was moved nearer to residence, to the California Establishment for Girls in Chino which is barely about 40 miles east of downtown LA, making it a lot simpler for her husband and their two teen youngsters, daughter Alexis and son Nicholas, to go to her.

How does she really feel about being pressured to change her lavish life-style of privilege and wealth with a life behind bars?

‘I don’t suppose anyone would deserve this – there is no such thing as a such factor as dignity if you end up incarcerated,’ she reportedly mentioned in a cellphone dialog with a pal, recorded when she was in Twin Towers jail.