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Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son: (Exclusive Sources)​

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found after first responders were called to the couple's Brentwood home at 3:30 p.m.
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By Greg Hanlon
Published on December 14, 2025 10:45PM EST
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.

On Sunday, Dec. 14, at about 3:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was called to a home to provide medical aid, the LAFD told PEOPLE. Upon arrival, they found a man, 78, and a woman, 68, dead. Sources confirm the victims were Rob and Michele.

Rob is a director, producer and actor whose career includes some of Hollywood’s most beloved films — from his 1984 directorial debut, This Is Spinal Tap, to Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Misery (1990) and A Few Good Men (1992).

He first became famous for his role as Mike on the Norman Lear TV sitcom All in the Family.

Rob was born in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1947. His father was legendary comedian Carl Reiner and his mother was actress and singer Estelle Lebost.

Rob and Michele met when Rob directed When Harry Met Sally, and the couple married in 1989 before having three children.

Previously, Rob was married to the late Penny Marshall, who died in 2018 at age 75 of complications from diabetes.

In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets. He said he cycled in and out of rehab beginning around age 15, but as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant stretches homeless in multiple states.

Nick told PEOPLE that the chaotic period of addiction — including nights and sometimes weeks sleeping outside — later became the basis for the semi-autobiographical film Being Charlie, which he co-wrote.

“Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family," Nick told PEOPLE at the time.

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An aerial view of a Brentwood home where paramedics and police responded Sunday afternoon after reports that 2 individuals were found dead inside.

Two people were found dead Sunday afternoon inside a Brentwood home owned by director and actor Rob Reiner, multiple law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.

LAPD Robbery Homicide Division detectives were assigned to the case. Several other LAPD officials said they were aware of the investigation but could not share any information.

There is a large police presence at the home Sunday evening.

LAFD paramedics were called to the home on Chadbourne Avenue around 3:30 p.m.

Within a few minutes, LAPD officers were dispatched to the home for a report of an, "ambulance death investigation," which is LAPD terminology when officers are called by firefighters to the discovery of a death.

Neighbors said Reiner and his wife live in the home, and property records indicate they own the home.
 
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An underappreciated aspect of Trump's post is that it doesn't really make any sense. TDS killed Rob Reiner? How, exactly? Ok, sure, in this thread people have batted around that the policies he favored created the very conditions that allowed his son to murder him ... but Trump never references his son.
I took it to mean that Rob Reiner was so consumed with insanity and hatred for Trump that he ignored what was truly important - his own son
 
Without the creative minds that come up with the stories that are directed, the machine wouldn’t function. Without the actors to play the roles in these films, the machine wouldn’t function. What is the director going to do without a writer? Who will he direct, if there are no actors? Where will he get the funds to direct his movie with no shareholders? The idea, the story being told, is the primary cog. Next to that are the shareholders because NONE of this shit is getting made without money.

Bear in mind auteur theory wasn't really a thing in American cinema until the 1960s (we got it from the French, hence the name), and it largely died when Michael Cimino bombed worse than Nagasaki with Heaven's Gate. But the perception of the director as the film's prime mover remains to this day.
 
What is the director going to do without a writer?
Write it himself
Who will he direct, if there are no actors?
Do it in animation, and voice the characters himself
Where will he get the funds to direct his movie with no shareholders?
Fund it himself. Crowdfunding has existed for a long time now and, even before that, Reiner came from rich family and was an actor himself. Orson Welles did TV commercials and parts in shitty films to pay for his passion projects. If Rob Reiner was really dedicated, he could have done the same.

Without the director, the film doesn't exist. Not that exact film. You could get the same writers, the same actors, the same everything but the director and it wouldn't be the same film. Not unless creative driver was somebody other than the director, as happens with big tentpole studio films these days, which Reiner's works weren't, or something like Rambo III, where Sylvester Stallone basically ghost-directed it but he had to hire somebody to actually direct it after he fired the original director because union rules mean you can't fire the director and replace him with yourself (They call it the 'Clint Eastwood Rule' because Clint fired the director of Josey Wales and took over the production himself)
 
Trump’s hatred probably comes from RussiaGate. Reiner carried water for that long after it got exposed as people taking stories on 4chan

Reiner was also the organizer and funder of "the committee to investigate Russia" in which a whole bunch of fake conservatives joined together with progressives to go after Trump back in 2017. He spent a whole lot of his own personal money going after Trump during the first term. But he was so hysterical and his public statements so trump-like that the things he was doing were not ultimately all that effective. But what made him really annoying was the money he could spend. He had a few hundred million dollars which meant he could get heard even if what he was doing wasn't terribly effective.

Reiner was also a big Biden fundraiser in 2020 and 2024 which would have also got the Orange man's attention.
 
it largely died when Michael Cimino bombed worse than Nagasaki with Heaven's Gate
Not necessarily. All Heaven's Gate (and One From the Heart and other New Hollywood films) bombing did was make it so that the studios, the big name studios, would never again allow a director to have completely unfettered control over a film the way Cimino did. It doesn't change the underlying theory that the director is the primary architect of a film, and what happened with Heaven's Gate doesn't affect independent films which started to come about in the late 80s/early 90s and were very much director and creator driven, rather than studio controlled.
 
Not necessarily. All Heaven's Gate (and One From the Heart and other New Hollywood films) bombing did was make it so that the studios, the big name studios, would never again allow a director to have completely unfettered control over a film the way Cimino did. It doesn't change the underlying theory that the director is the primary architect of a film, and what happened with Heaven's Gate doesn't affect independent films which started to come about in the late 80s/early 90s and were very much director and creator driven, rather than studio controlled.

Yeah, I guess it's more accurate to say that Cimino destroyed the conditions where the big studios would put up with it to the degree they had during the 60s-70s.
 
They've got him dead-to-rights. I don't think they'll bring on all these celebrity character witnesses. I think the son will likely plead out
That's true and I wouldn't be surprised if it goes that way lol.

It is a pretty shut and open case, especially since he got arrested so quickly after news broke. But it's a big-name/old-school celebrity as a victim, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a huge story for a long while (probably longer than it needs to be)

It's kinda similar to the Tate-LaBianca murders with the amount of celebrities and big name people that are associated with this case so far.

I know it's like who tf was really checking for Reiner or Billy Crystal or even Conan O'Brien up until now (at least when it comes to celebrity gossip), but these are "real" celebrities opposed to random D-list influencers that have been the dominating stories like this for the last 5 years so people are probably going to be more interested too.
 
It is a pretty shut and open case, especially since he got arrested so quickly after news broke. But it's a big-name/old-school celebrity as a victim, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a huge story for a long while (probably longer than it needs to be)

Shit, man, people still occasionally bring up Marvin Gaye getting shot by his own dad, and that happened over 40 years ago.
 
LOL, What? This was a big fat jew who continuously employed nepotism to get his drugged out son thousands of dollars of undeserved income from more talented writers, etc. And supported overturning democratically elected laws.
I have no idea why you think that wall of text and copy pasta political sperg links are any sort of answer to my question. Why did they bring Nick along to Conan O’Brien’s big fancy industry Christmas Party.

Nick Reiner didn’t need jobs or “thousands of dollars in underserved income” lol. His father was an absurdly wealthy multi-millionaire director and producer, he owned part of and help run a huge Castlerock Entertainment ffs. Rob Reiner was the guy who got big movies made and got people jobs.

He certainly didn’t need industry friends to give Nick pity jobs. Rob Reiner didn’t even bother giving Nick pretend jobs on his own productions.

A decade ago Rob made a big attempt to get his son in the industry by producing and directing an entire movie, with his own money, around some shitty script Nick “and a friend” wrote. Rob basically wasted millions trying to be a supportive dad, massage Nick’s ego and try to help him find something to do with his life besides drugs. It was the type of opportunity half of Los Angeles would kill to have. Nick failed miserably and even seemed to resent his father for trying to help him get in the industry.

Nick has had nothing to do with or in the film industry since then. He also made it clear he thinks he is much better than all the fake, phony Hollywood people in his dad’s industry.

This is why it’s so bizarre he went with his parents to the party. Nick wasn’t in the industry, claimed he didn’t want to work in the industry and disliked the people in it. Putting all that aside he is unhinged, wearing a dirty hoodie and was high.

It was akin to taking an angry, non-house broken, pitbull to a kid’s birthday party.

I can only guess Nick did it specifically to humiliate his parents in front of their friends and business associates. I can see him accusing his parents of “being embarrassed to be seen with me” if they tried to discourage him coming along.

Maybe he smoked so much meth he thought Conan O’Brien would be thrilled he came and he was just the kind of guy he needed to make the party successful.

He definitely ensured Conan’s 2025 Christmas Party will be Hollywood’s most infamous Xmas party for a long time.
I wonder how much of his political sperging was really frustration over his son. People externalize these things and rant at little effigies of their own failures or perceived failures.
Probably a good bit. Venting anger and frustration at another target is pretty SOP for men and it also serves as a distraction from the problems or people they can’t fix or do much about.
But his political views related to his son's problem were that drugs should be completely decriminalized and infinity money be spent on drug treatment programs. He saw all drug issues as being medical issues needing treatment or cures. His views on drugs was probably an externalization of the issues with his son. His views (in his own case) were ultimately wrong, harmful and got him killed.
i do wonder how his views changed, if they did, after living for a decade with Nick. I’m sure they had evolved with the brutal reality check of dealing with Nick for ten years.

The movie, and the press they did for it, show his pov when his son was still fairly young. I think Rob was absurdly optimistic and delusional about his future. He was just a mixed up kid, bump in the road, a few more years of growing up and it will get all sorted out.

Apparently the end of the film implies the main character gets sober, but Nick complained that was BS and he also never intended to be totally sober or drug free.

Growing up in and working in Hollywood Rob would have known a lot of addicts and also plenty of successful people who did manage a balance of work and casual drug use. His son was trying to convince him he was in the latter category when he absolutely was not. He also convinced his dad that he was very special and all that AA or religious stuff or total sobriety thing was for the plebs. Nick knew what was best for Nick. I mean he’s a Reiner, he is very special and very smart!

It was interesting to hear Rob in 2015 complain they made mistakes because they trusted all the professionals with diplomas on their walls. But he made a much bigger mistake trusting his mentally ill, addict son to make any decisions. As a result he ended up dealing with a raging druggie lunatic living in his guest house for a decade.

The “medical issue” or disease model would have been appealing to all of them because it removed all the responsibility from their collective shoulders. Poor Nick just has a disease that needs treatment.

The biggest problem was that Nick convinced them all that being such a special, important person he needed very special and important treatment and considerations to deal with his disease when what he desperately needed was to be handled just like any other addict and suffer repercussions for his behavior.

They must have really worked to keep Nick out of trouble and safely within the repercussion free, safe, comfortable, wealth bubble. Their daughter mentions incidents where the parents threatened to call the police, but never did. There is nothing in the press about Nick after his little appearances for the movie his dad made for him. No arrests. No behaving badly in public. After the drama of his teen years running away from posh rehabs it sounds like they just settled in to letting Nick live in their guest house and do drugs and it just deteriorated more and more.

Keep it in the family and out of the press seemed to be the prime directive. They wanted the last public impression of Nick to be the uplifting movie ending, not reality, which is sort of what you would expect from a Hollywood director.
 
I have no idea why you think that wall of text and copy pasta political sperg links are any sort of answer to my question. Why did they bring Nick along to Conan O’Brien’s big fancy industry Christmas Party.
Because they are fucking stupid. I can't quote your entire wishy-washy textwall of willful ignorance that a fat moron who kept his violent, drug addled son 'out of trouble' until he could cut their throats when they slept matches expectations. I'm not sure why you're so sympathetic to them or their issues unless you have them, too. Junkies are as worthless as hollywood directors. Nothing of value is lost. Goodbye Jew.

 
Trump has been gracious so many times before-- I'm immediately going back to the moment where he reacted to Ginsburg's death. Then there's the Osbourne family revealing that Trump personally called Sharon after Ozzy's passing with a kind hearted message, in spite of the things that family has said about him in the past.
To be fair (and maybe overly fair), Ginsburg never personally attacked him, and was generally well regarded by all her colleagues. She and Scalia were pretty much best friends despite often dueling in the concurrences and dissents. The Osbournes also had public presence other than 24/7 TDS.

Of course, it's also possible his executive function has deteriorated to the point he's losing the ability to regulate his behavior, not that it was ever great to begin with.

It's obviously something personal with him, and he blew an opportunity to say nice things anyway, but then regret that the lax policies towards drugs endorsed by Reiner indirectly led to his death. . .

AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE INTERDICTING VENEZUELAN HARD DRUGS THEY ARE SHIPPING TO US AS AN ACT OF WAR.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found in bed with their throats cut and may have been asleep when they were murdered, a source close to the investigation claimed to the Daily Mail.
I'd imagine they woke up at some point during the whole getting murdered process.
 
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Of course, it's also possible his executive function has deteriorated to the point he's losing the ability to regulate his behavior, not that it was ever great to begin with.

I think the notion that Trump is deteriorating is completely overblown, and is mostly cope for the fact that Biden was falling apart in front of our eyes before he was even inaugurated and everybody insisted he was just peachy. I'm pretty sure you've been following politics at least as long as I have, and I don't recall any mention of a stutter even during the Obama years, much less during his absurd '88 flameout.

I think it's much more likely Trump just doesn't give a shit because, hell, they already shot him once.
 
Anyone else reminded of Brynn Hartman in all this?

Everyone blames the drugs for what happened, but she was a nasty piece of work long before Andy Dick entered the picture; her murdering her husband was probably inevitable.
I mean, to be fair I feel like most people have stopped giving a shit about movies in general. They could announce free blow jobs with the purchase of every movie ticket to the next star wars and you would be lucky if the theater could sell a quarter of the seats.
I think there's especially no interest in the sort of benign comedies Reiner made.
 
Nick Reiner ‘stormed off’ after getting into tiff with comedian Bill Hader at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party

Reiner, who is accused of slaughtering his filmmaker dad and his mom in their Brentwood home sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, interrupted Hader at the holiday bash, an eyewitness told NBC News.

When the “SNL” alum told Nick that he was in the middle of a private conversation, the source said Nick just stood there and
stared, before “storming off.”

The unsettling interaction concerned other partygoers, the source added.
 
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