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 certainly appeared to have some of the ...

New details about the life of William de Rothschild, who died Nov. 27, cast doubt on claims that he was a member of Europe’s eminent Rothschild banking family. The elderly man told his neighbors 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) The elderly man told his neighbors ...

But in the days after William de Rothschild, 87, was found dead at his fire-damaged Laurel Canyon home last week, questions surfaced about his identity. He was not born with that name and does not ...