Elderly woman strangled inside Hollywood Hills home ID’d as Budget Rent a Car heiress
By John Ross Ferrara
Published on April 25, 2026.
A woman in her 70s who was beaten and robbed at her home in the Hollywood Hills has been identified as Margaux Mirkin, heiress to the Budget Rent a Car fortune. The suspects beat and strangled her, taking away a significant amount of cash and jewelry. This is not the first time Mirkin has faced violence; her husband, 87-year-old William A.
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