In court on Monday, Scott Erickson, the former partner of convicted child killer Rebecca Grossman, revealed that he recently spent time golfing in Mexico with his new partner, despite facing significant financial liabilities in a wrongful death lawsuit amounting to “tens and tens of millions of dollars.”
Erickson also confessed to his daily alcohol consumption, even sharing that he enjoyed a martini after a previous court appearance, complete with a social media post of himself in a tuxedo, drink in hand.
Breaking his silence after nearly six years, the former MLB star discussed the tragic accident that he and Grossman, 64, are accused of causing, which led to the deaths of two young brothers.
Appearing in court at 58, with a sun-kissed complexion and clad in a dark suit and open-collared white shirt, Erickson faced questions about his commitment to the case, which could result in a massive financial penalty if the jury of eight women and four men rules against him.
Erickson affirmed the gravity of the situation by saying, “This is serious.” Yet, he admitted to spending the previous week at a golf course residence in Baja California, belonging to the fair-haired widow Stacey Kendall Stimson.
The former World Series champion also acknowledged having an affair with another woman during his relationship with Grossman, in the year following the fatal car crash.
Grieving parents, Nancy and Karim Iskander, are seeking millions in damages for the loss of their sons Mark, 11, and eight-year-old Jacob who were fatally injured when Grossman’s speeding white Mercedes smashed into them while she and Erickson were allegedly racing in Westlake Village in LA, in September 2020.
Scott Erickson arrived at the Van Nuys courthouse to give testimony in the ongoing civil trial against him and Rebecca Grossman, who was found responsible for the 2020 deaths of two young boys due to reckless driving
Erickson’s new girlfriend was identified as Canadian widow Stacey Kimball Stimson, whose husband, Calgary businessman Derek Stimson died in 2023
Mark and Jacob Iskander were killed on September 29, 2020, after Grossman slammed her Mercedes into them at high speed as they crossed the street
He was having an affair with Rebecca when she was separated from her plastic surgeon husband Dr. Pete Grossman, who is also a defendant in the lawsuit as the owner of the Mercedes she was driving at the time.
In their case against Grossman and Erickson, the Iskanders have claimed that both were ‘impaired’ by alcohol at the time of the death crash.
And on Monday at LA Superior Court in Van Nuys, the Iskanders’ lead attorney Brian Panish grilled Erickson about his drinking habits.
‘Do you drink alcohol every day?’ asked Panish, who asked the court to regard Erickson as a hostile witness. ‘Yes,’ said Erickson who admitted that after an earlier appearance he made during jury selection in the civil trial, he went to a bar and drank a Martini – and posted a photo of himself on Instagram, wearing a tuxedo and drinking a Martini.
Erickson denied that he was racing Grossman just before the accident and when Panish asked him if he was driving with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of others, he responded ’No.’
But he admitted that police charged him with reckless driving as a result of the crash, though he blurted out, ‘Those charges were dropped.’
He also denied leaving the scene of the accident, saying he did return by foot. But he admitted that when he came back to the scene he did not identify himself to police there.
Erickson confessed that he deleted many of his texts with Grossman in the days and months after the crash.
Grossman and Erickson had attended a fundraising event in 2020 shortly before the accident. Erickson was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving and his case was resolved in February 2022
Erickson was surrounded by his legal team when he arrived at court in Van Nuys, California, Monday morning
When Panish asked him if he denied any accountability for the deaths of Mark and Jacob Iskander, he responded, ‘Yes.’
And when the attorney told him that he is ‘is accountable’ if he was racing Grossman at the time she killed the boys, Erickson replied, ‘I was never racing.’
Asked about eye witnesses who reported seeing his and Grossman’s cars traveling at high speed, he added, ‘I don’t know about those.’
Stacey Kendall Stimson has now relocated from Calgary, Alberta, to Mexico
Erickson confessed to ‘lying to the police and committing perjury’ when he produced the wrong car to cops investigating the death crash.
At the time of the accident, he owned two black Mercedes SUVs and the one he produced – which investigators traveled to Las Vegas, where he now lives, to inspect – was not the one he was driving the day of the accident.
‘You lied to police many times in this case, right,’ blasted Panish. ’No,’ replied Erickson. ‘Just about the car.’
Panish showed the court many texts between Grossman and Erickson in which they both professed their love for each other.
And on the witness stand Monday, Erickson told the jury that he was in love with Rebecca – and she with him.
But, pressed by Panish, he admitted that in 2021, in the months after the crash, he was seeing another woman called Vera Lynn, though he denied dating her, saying she was just ‘a friend.’
Erickson’s new love is a Canadian mother-of-one from Calgary, Alberta. Her husband, agricultural equipment businessman Derek Stimson died in 2023 and since then she has relocated to Mexico.
Earlier in the trial, Royce Clayton – a former pro shortstop and buddy of Erickson – told the court that in a phone call shortly after the crash, Erickson told him he and Grossman had been racing, he swerved to avoid hitting the two boys on the crosswalk and saw in his rearview mirror Grossman hitting the brothers.
Then and now: Rebecca Grossman arriving at court in 2024 and in her mugshot following her imprisonment
The boys’ grieving parents Karim and Nancy Iskander are seeking ‘millions’ in damages, their attorney said at a previous hearing
But on Monday, Erickson denied telling Clayton those details and said he couldn’t think why his friend of 30 years ‘would make up anything about me.’
And when Panish persisted, ‘You were racing. You were f—ing flying down the road, weren’t you,’ he said ‘I never said that.’
Erickson agreed with Panish’s suggestion that he was ‘grateful and thrilled’ that he did not hit the boys as they crossed the road and said that he didn’t see Nancy Iskander diving out of the way with her youngest son Zachary to avoid being hit by him.
He denied fleeing the scene of the crash, saying, ‘I did not flee – I was just driving down the road – there was no crash scene at that point.’
He told the court that after he passed the crosswalk he didn’t see what happened to the two boys but ‘I was concerned for their safety.’
Panish jumped in, ’So you were so concerned with their safety. Did you go back on check on them? Did you go and find out what happened to them?’
‘No,’ admitted Erickson.
And when Panish asked him, ‘In three hours at the scene you never did anything or asked anyone about the condition of the two boys?, Erickson added, ‘No, I did not.’
Grossman’s Mercedes after the smash. She kept on driving, despite the damage caused to the car after she struck the boys
Grossman is serving 15 years to life in prison after a jury at her February 2024 criminal trial found her guilty of two counts each of second degree murder and vehicular manslaughter, plus one of hit-and-run.
Her legal team at her murder trial blamed the deadly crash on Erickson, who was driving his black Mercedes just ahead of Grossman after the two had earlier shared cocktails.
But the 6ft 4in former ballplayer was only slapped with a misdemeanor reckless driving charge that was dismissed after he made a public service announcement about the importance of safe driving.
Despite the lack of criminal charges against the former pro pitcher, the Iskanders named Erickson in their civil lawsuit alongside Grossman, holding him equally responsible for the fatal crash.
Erickson – who played for six MLB teams during a 16-year baseball career, winning the World Series with the Minnesota Twins in 1991 – vehemently denies any blame in the tragic deaths of the Iskander boys, insisting that Grossman was the only one who caused the terrible pile-up.
