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.

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.

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.

The death of William de Rothschild — the Laurel Canyon man who neighbors said claimed to be a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family — was an accident, the L.A. County medical examiner's ...

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 ...