Daniel Yacobi was found guilty in August of strangling his 67-year-old mother Violet to death at her Beverly Hills mansion in 2017. Prosecutors said he killed the wealthy widow to inherit a share of her $12 million estate. On Feb. 12, 2018, Daniel was arrested and later charged with murdering his mother after a coroner ruled her death a homicide. Violet Yacobi's Beverly Hills home. “He told me [his parents] pushed him into dentistry, and that he hated being in dentistry, and that his mother was very controlling,” Summers said.