De Rothschild, 87, was found dead at his fire-damaged Laurel Canyon home after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a blaze at the Lookout Mountain Avenue residence Nov. 27.

Neighbors said a man found dead in a Laurel Canyon home that burned on Wednesday was William Rothschild, a member of the prominent banking family. The fire was put out by 45 firefighters in a ...

De Rothschild, 87, was found dead at his fire-damaged Laurel Canyon home after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a blaze at the Lookout Mountain Avenue residence Nov. 27.

The name change — and De Rothschild’s death — was news to his younger brother, Richard Kauffman of Oregon. Reached by telephone, he told The Times that his brother had “disappeared” in ...

William Alexander de Rothschild, 87, perished in the blaze at his $1 million Laurel Canyon home on November 27.

William de Rothschild’s home in Laurel Canyon, pictured, is now badly burned following a devastating fire last week (Google Maps) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more.

A man found dead after his Laurel Canyon house was badly damaged in a fire Wednesday afternoon was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, neighbors said. The body discovered at the ...

A covered vehicle outside the fire-damaged home of William de Rothschild, a.k.a. William Alfred Kauffman, who was found dead Nov. 27. Neighbors say he had a major car collection.

LOS ANGELES — The elderly man told his neighbors he was a Rothschild — a member of the prominent European family whose collective fortune is worth billions of dollars. He ...

Firefighters found the body of William de Rothschild after his Lookout Mountain Avenue house was badly burned in a fire Nov. 27. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times ...