According to reports, neighbors identified the body found at the Lookout Mountain Avenue property as belonging to William Rothschild.

Fire crews discovered a man’s body inside the Hollywood Hills home after they were called to battle the blaze just after 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

A reclusive member of the wealthy Rothschild family was killed on Wednesday in a fire that devastated his Hollywood Hills home. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to the fire Wednesday afternoon,