Socialite Rebecca Grossman Writes Disgusting Letter From Prison to Mom of 2 Boys She Killed, Claiming She's The Victim, Civil Lawsuit
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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Summary
Just after 7 p.m. on a September evening, Jacob and Mark Iskander, their siblings, and parents went for an evening stroll to a nearby lake. The six-member family was crossing in a crosswalk at a three-way intersection when mother Nancy heard a speeding car coming their way.
She says her husband and daughter were farther from the street. She tried to signal to two approaching SUVs to slow down. She managed to grab one of her children and dive out of the way, but Jacob and Mark were hit. Mark Iskander died at the scene, and Jacob died later at the hospital. According to police, Mark was thrown 254 feet.
Nancy Iskander told police that two SUVs were "zig-zagging with each other as if they were playing or racing." She said the drivers didn’t stop at the intersection, not even when the 11-year-old was on the hood of the car. Deputies reportedly caught up with a white Mercedes with significant front-end damage a third of a mile from the scene.
Behind the wheel was Rebecca Grossman. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department believes the vehicle was traveling over 80 miles an hour. Grossman’s breathalyzer test after the crash showed a blood alcohol content of 0.076%, according to local news reports.
The legal limit in California is 0.08%. A blood sample taken three hours after the crash registered at 0.08%
Grossman was convicted and sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison. She is facing a wrongful death civil suit, now in it's sixth week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.6 | Tonight, we learn wealthy socialite. |
| 0:17.1 | A millionaire, Rebecca Grossman writes a disgusting letter from behind bars to the mother |
| 0:25.4 | of the two little boys. She, Rebecca Grossman, murdered with her Mercedes, insisting she, |
| 0:32.5 | Rebecca Grossman, is the victim. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:42.4 | A millionaire socialite writes a horrific letter to the grieving mother of two little boys, |
| 0:50.0 | two little boys, they're precious, that she, Rebecca Grossman, mowed down at a high rate of |
| 0:56.6 | speed after a boozy lunch with her lover, begging the mom to visit her behind bars. |
| 1:05.3 | Why? Why? She insists that she wants the mom to, quote, see the circumstances that she Rebecca is in. |
| 1:16.9 | She amazingly also wrote, she, Rebecca, is the victim. |
| 1:22.9 | Okay, let's just get our facts straight. Who is the victim here? |
| 1:27.2 | The victim, the victims are too bad. Let's just get our facts straight. Who is the victim here? |
| 1:48.3 | The victim, the victims are two little boys, Mark 11 and Jacob 8, walking across the street in a marked crosswalk in Westlake Village with their mom and their little brothers and sisters when they were mowed down by Grossman's Mercedes. |
| 1:50.1 | Okay, what are the facts? Two little boys dead, ages 8 and 11, while this plastic surgeon's socialite wife is drag racing on the open road after a boozy lunch with her lover? |
| 2:06.1 | Uh-uh. |
| 2:07.1 | No. |
| 2:08.3 | Let me just take these words in, fitted together in one sentence. |
| 2:13.4 | A plastic surgeon socialite wife mows down two little boys. |
| 2:24.2 | So many questions. Let's start it off. Listen. |
| 2:26.3 | Just after 7 p.m. on a September evening, Jacob and Mark Iskender, their siblings and parents, go for an evening stroll to a nearby lake. |
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