A plastic surgeon’s socialite wife has tried to blame her alleged secret lover for the murder of two young brothers she’s accused of striking with her car following a boozy lover’s lunch.

Lawyers for Rebecca Grossman, 62, made the astonishing assertion at a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday, suggesting former Dodgers’ pitcher Scott Erickson had struck Jacob Iskander, eight, and his 11 year-old brother Mark in September 2020.

Grossman’s attorney Tony Buzzbee told the court that sheriff’s deputies failed to check Erickson’s black Mercedes, which Grossman is said to have been chasing in her white Mercedes at the time of the smash.

Images from the scene show the front of Grossman’s luxury car badly-damaged by an impact prosecutors say was caused by the youngsters she mowed down while doing 81mph in a 45mph zone. 

Erickson’s black Mercedes drove through the crosswalk where the brothers were struck while walking with their parents before Grossman’s car did. Grossman was joined for Monday’s hearing by her surgeon husband Dr Peter Grossman, who appears to be standing by her in spite of the scandal and criminal trial. 

Socialite Rebecca Grossman was seen gripping her LA plastic surgeon husband Dr Peter Grossman’s arm as they left court today for the start of her murder trial

Scott Erickson, Rebecca Grossman’s alleged lover, is pictured in 2018. He was charged with a misdemeanor over the 2020 crash, and settled his case in 2022

Mark and Jacob were out walking with their parents and siblings when they were killed. The parents were able to stop their younger siblings from being hit – but couldn’t reach the two boys in time

According to the LA Times, Buzbee claimed that a sheriff’s investigator never checked Erickson’s vehicle after the incident and took his word that he was driving his own 2007 plate SUV at the time. 

Buzbee told LA County Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino that Erickson produced that vehicle for examination in civil litigation after the crash. 

The lawyer claims that Erickson had actually been inside a 2016 Mercedes-AMG on the day of the crash. 

Buzbee said he would produce witnesses at trial to lay the foundation for the photo exhibit, and said one witness told an investigator she saw two vehicles strike the children that day. 

The outlet reported that Buzbee added: ‘Why would law enforcement not look at this vehicle that he was driving that night?

‘Why wouldn’t they, especially when you had a witness, the first witness that provided a witness account, said there were two collisions three to five seconds apart? Why wouldn’t they go look at his vehicle?’ 

Deputy District Attorney Ryan Gould said prosecutors had no evidence to support the exhibit and didn’t know who had taken the photograph that Buzbee wanted to present. 

On Wednesday, Grossman was seen gripping her LA plastic surgeon husband’s arm as they left the court after the second day of her murder trial. 

Jury selection continued Wednesday for her trial in Van Nuys, California. Grossman was dressed modestly in a gray cardigan, white collard shirt and black pants

Grossman’s Mercedes after the incident. The black box showed she was traveling well over the 45mph limit 

Mark Iskander, 11, and his younger brother Jacob, eight, were killed in the crash in 2020

Dr. Peter Grossman – dressed in a smart blue suit – is standing by her side, despite accusations that his wife was leaving a boozy lunch with Erickson.

Robert Apodaca, a former L.A. County sheriff’s deputy, who specializes in traffic crashes, testified at a preliminary that he calculated Grossman was driving 71.7 mph when she struck the boys and that the car computer showed 73 mph. Witnesses believe the car was moving at 81 mph. 

Apodaca said Mark was thrown 254 feet by the impact – the farthest he has known a human to be tossed in a crash. 

Erickson, now 55, was charged with a misdemeanor, and his case was resolved in February 2022 with a judge ordering him to make a public service announcement geared toward high school students about the importance of safe driving.

Erickson, who is divorced, spent a year playing with the Los Angeles’ Dodgers in 2005, then ended his career with the New York Yankees in 2006.

Grossman’s murder charges are unusual as there was no charge of driving under the influence.

Her on-site breathalyzer test showed a blood alcohol content of 0.076 percent – slightly below California’s legal limit of 0.08 percent.

A blood sample taken three hours after the crash registered at the 0.08 percent mark.

Prosecutors will argue in court that Grossman was also on Valium and was impaired when she got behind the wheel.

Grossman – whose husband leads the prestigious Grossman Burn Center – will argue in her defense that a vehicle was in front of her, and that vehicle hit the boys, exonerating her and Erickson.

Karim and Nancy Iskander, the boys’ parents, are shown at a court hearing in April 2022

Grossman claims the accident was caused by a poorly lit, poorly signaled crosswalk. Above, the crosswalk 

Jaime Castro, prosecuting, will argue that Grossman and Erickson ‘raced’ their SUVs through Westlake Village before Grossman hit the boys.

Castro said they had not intended to reveal Grossman’s affair with Erickson, but it became relevant because ‘the defense intends to argue that the black car that is at issue in this particular scenario is not Erickson’s.’

Nancy Iskander, the mother of the boys, has said she could not see which of the two vehicles hit her sons.

She said that she and Jacob were on inline skates while crossing the road at the crosswalk, while Mark was on his skateboard and her youngest son, five-year-old Zachary, was on his scooter. Her husband and daughter were jogging nearby.

‘The speed was insane,’ she said of the two SUVs. ‘They were zigzagging with each other as if they were playing or racing.

‘They didn’t stop before the intersection. They didn’t stop at the intersection. They didn’t stop when an 11-year-old was on the hood of the car. Nobody stopped.’

Erickson played with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2005 for a year, then ended his career with the New York Yankees in 2006

The Grossmans’ $8 million mansion in Hidden Hills, Los Angeles

Jurors are expected to hear from a California Highway Patrol officer who pulled over Grossman in 2013 after she was clocked going 92 mph on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, and warned her she could kill someone. 

Deputy Rafael Mejia testified he had found Grossman a third of a mile away from the crash.

She had pulled over, and was saying she did not know why her airbag had been triggered.

Grossman has been out on $2 million bond. Her trial is expected to last six weeks: If convicted of all charges, she could face up to 34 years in prison.