The heiress to the Budget Rent a Car fortune was brutally choked and beaten by a gang of masked thieves who broke into her Hollywood Hills home Thursday night and made off with jewlery, according to police.

A woman in her 70s who was beaten and robbed at her Hollywood Hills home Thursday night has been identified by her neighbors as Margaux Mirkin, heiress to the Budget Rent a Car fortune. A group of masked men broke into the home on the 8500 block of Lookout Mountain Avenue around 7:30 p.

Margaux Mirkin’s neighbor said they were “stunned” by the alleged crime in the typically quiet neighborhood

Margaux Mirkin, the daughter of the founder of Budget Rent a Car, was strangled in her home on Thursday by a group of masked men, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.