Los Angeles socialite who killed two boys while racing car enthusiast sentenced to 15 to 19 years in prison after pleading with judge for light sentence

A Los Angeles socialite who killed two young boys after hitting them with her car has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for her crimes.

The sentence was handed down after Rebecca Grossman asked the judge to “consider her suffering” when passing sentence.

Grossman, 60, said she was “not a murderer” and that the pain she caused her family and those of the two dead young people were “punishments I already endure.”

She was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother Jacob Iskander, 8, after a six-week trial. She learned her fate in prison during a court hearing Monday.

Grossman was engaged in a “high-speed game of chicken” with her lover, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson. The two men were drinking cocktails at a nearby bar before the incident.

“I am not a murderer, and I ask that you recognize that fact,” Grossman wrote in a letter to Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino, obtained by The New York Post.

“My pain, my recognition of the pain the Iskanders are going through, and the pain I see my family going through are punishments I am already suffering and will endure for the rest of my life. Please consider that pain when you consider what additional punishment to impose on me in this case.

Her lawyers argued she should be released on probation.

“I can only imagine the pain that (the boys' parents) Nancy and Karim Iskander are feeling minute by minute,” Grossman wrote. “I will carry my pain for the rest of my life.”

The socialite also sent a bizarre letter to the Iskanders, obtained by the Daily Mail, in which she said she would have driven her car “into a tree” if she had the chance, to avoid tragedy.

Despite her claims, the boy's mother, Nancy Iskander, said the socialite treated her family like “the world's number one enemy” and repeatedly fought to delay sentencing.

According to Iskander, the socialite had used several “strategies”, including creating conflicts of interest to delay the hearing, originally scheduled for April 10.

“The problem is that every time we try to move forward and take the next step, the legal system or Ms. Grossman, or both, bring us back to the fight, the fight for justice,” Ms. Iskander said, speaking to Fox News Digital last month.

“It’s horrible, to say the least. She didn't express remorse, but more importantly, she didn't even show leniency…I felt she had plenty of opportunities to show leniency, plead guilty or find a way to shorten the fighting process, without having to drag me back into that courtroom again and again.

“But she didn't. She had many opportunities to show mercy and she showed no mercy towards my family. In fact, she only shows hatred… as if we were the world's number one enemy.”