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.

An heir to the prominent Rothschild family has died after a house fire broke out at the Laurel Canyon house. William Rothschild's body was found in the $1 million home in Los Angeles on Friday.

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.

William de Rothschild, who claimed to be a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, neighbors said, was found dead at his Lookout Mountain Avenue home Nov. 27.

A week after a man believed to be a member of the Rothschild family died in a Hollywood Hills house fire, his true identity is coming into focus.

Laurel Canyon is rich with music landmarks and was home to Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper and more during its 1960s-'70s peak.

A reclusive member of the famous Rothschild family died in a fire in Laurel Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills, on November 27.

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

Read more: Member of prominent Rothschild family found dead after Laurel Canyon house fire, neighbors say By 1972, the man who would become William de Rothschild had bought the Lookout Mountain ...

Read more: Member of prominent Rothschild family found dead after Laurel Canyon house fire, neighbors say By 1972, the man who would become William de Rothschild had bought the Lookout Mountain house, ...