New York Post89%
Rebecca Grossman jury awards $176M in damages for death of two young boys 58%
By Jeremy Louwerse0%
6/3/2026, 5:13:27 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 52.7% saturation with 175 hits. Analysis detected 1,301 faulty-reasoning hits from 332 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.8% and a BS Rank of 58% (9,219 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.90% of the article peer group.
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, who was convicted of murder for killing the two young boys with her car during a chase with Erickson, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in 2024.
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 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 the wrongful death trial tied to the deaths of brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8.
Just after 7 p.m. on September 29, 2020, the boys were crossing Triunfo Canyon Road with their mother and younger brother when witnesses saw cars racing toward them.
Grossman, co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and wife of plastic surgeon Dr.
Peter Grossman, was allegedly driving 73 mph in a 45-mph zone when the crash occurred.
Nancy Iskander, the mother of the two boys, said she grabbed her youngest son and dove out of the way of Erickson’s SUV before seeing Grossman’s vehicle speed through where Mark and Jacob had been standing.
Steamy WhatsApp messages between Grossman and Erickson show the couple coordinating their stories while exchanging “I love yous” as prosecutors attempted to unravel what happened on the night the socialite mowed down two little boys in a crosswalk.
The socialite remains in jail and struck the boys with such force that the older brother flew more than 250 feet.
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