Hollywood director Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on Sunday, with their throats slit, according to multiple sources. Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested and booked for felony murder in connection with the double homicide, which police are investigating as a possible domestic incident following an argument.
The Los Angeles Fire Department was called to the residence at approximately 3:30 PM, where they discovered the victims, and the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Homicide Division has taken over the investigation.
The couple’s daughter Romy, who lives across the street, is reported to have discovered the bodies. According to sources, she told police that a family member should be considered a suspect due to being “dangerous,” and police are questioning an unnamed family member.
Dispatch audio from the scene reveals Los Angeles Police Department(LAPD) called for backup at the Brentwood mansion around 3:30 PM.
Nick has previously spoken publicly about his struggles with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and led to periods of homelessness. He is in custody and being held without bail.
The investigation is ongoing.
Reiner, known for directing iconic films such as This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery, and A Few Good Men, had a long and celebrated career in Hollywood.
The 78-year-old was previously married to actress Penny Marshall, with whom he had a daughter, Tracy, whom they adopted. He married Michele Singer Reiner in 1989 after meeting on the set of When Harry Met Sally…; they had three children: Jake, Nick, and Romy.
Michele Reiner was a photographer and producer who worked on several of her husband’s projects, including Spinal Tap II: The End Continues and the 2023 documentary Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, and was an executive producer on the upcoming series *Wind River: Rising.
Tributes poured in from several Hollywood celebrities, and politicians.
In a provocative Truth Social post Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote that Reiner died “…reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS... He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
The post drew bipartisan criticisms on social media. However the president doubled down while speaking to reporters in the White House.
"I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a DERANGED person, as far as Trump is concerned," Trump said. "He knew it was false - that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. The Russia hoax - he was one of the people behind it. He hurt himself career-wise... He became deranged - Trump Derangement Syndrome. I was not a fan of Rob Reiner. At all. In any way, shape, or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
