Rob Reiner’s son Nick in custody after Hollywood legend and spouse have been knifed to dying inside $13.5m mansion
Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner’s son Nick is in custody and has been booked for felony murder after the Hollywood director and his wife were found knifed to death, sources have told the Daily Mail.
The couple allegedly had their throats slit after a heated argument with a relative, understood to be Nick, turned deadly at their $13.5million LA mansion on Sunday afternoon.
Detectives have been questioning the Hollywood director’s 32-year-old son, who was arrested Sunday night before being booked for felony murder Monday morning. He is being held on a $4million bail bond, Los Angeles Sheriff’s records show.
Reiner made many of the best-known movies of the 1980s and 1990s, including Stand By Me and The Princess Bride in 1987, legal thriller A Few Good Men in 1992 and romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally in 1989.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was called to Mr and Mrs Reiner’s home at about 3.30pm on Sunday and found a man, 78, and a woman, 68, dead in the property.
The couple’s daughter Romy, who lives just across the street, is said to have made the grim discovery when she visited their sprawling six-bedroom estate yesterday afternoon.
Romy told police that a family member ‘should be a suspect’ because they are ‘dangerous’, TMZ reports.
Nick has previously spoken about his struggles with drug addiction, which saw him first attend rehab around his 15th birthday and experience periods of homelessness.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele (left) are pictured (L-R) with their daughter Romy, son Nick, daughter-in-law Maria Gilfillan and son Jake Reiner in September 2025, their last public appearance as a family
Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner attend ‘Being Charlie’ AOL Studios, 2016, in New York City
‘I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas. I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun,’ he told People in an interview in 2016.
A screenwriter, he co-wrote the semi-autobiographical movie Being Charlie about his struggles with drug addiction and the impact it has on a person’s family.
He worked on the film from rehab and collaborated with his director father on the project, which depicts the strained relationship between an actor father and his addict son and tracks closely with the Reiner family’s own experience, they said at the time.
It ends with an apology from the father about the occasionally harsh way he treats his son, including enforced stints in rehab, something Reiner said he gave his son in real life.
In an interview with the BUILD series while promoting Being Charlie in 2016, Nick said that he ‘didn’t bond’ well with his father, who sat by his side during the interview, when he was younger.
‘It really clicked for me because we didn’t bond a lot as a kid,’ Nick said. ‘He really liked baseball, I liked basketball, and he could watch that with my brother… but I just, when I saw [Reiner direct Being Charlie], it was something that I’m interested in.
‘I was like, “Wow, he really knows a lot,” and it made me feel closer to him,’ Nick said at the time.
Nick, who said he had gone to rehab 17 more times as of 2016, also claimed to have lived on the streets after he refused to go back to a rehab program.
In 2016, when he was 22, he said that his last rehab stint had been three years prior.
He said at the time of Being Charlie’s release that he hoped to stay off drugs so that he would never be homeless again: ‘When I was out there, I could’ve died. It’s all luck. You roll the dice and you hope you make it’.
LAFD responded to a call just after 3:30 p.m., and first responders then called the LAPD to the scene, which is now investigating the deaths as homicides; Reiner and Singer pictured in March in LA
In September this year, Reiner and Michele posed for their final full family photo with Nick, Romy, and their eldest son Jake and his wife Maria Gilfillan at the premiere for Spinal Tap 2, which he directed and wrote.
A Reiner family spokesperson confirmed the death of the director and his wife, saying: ‘It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,’ they said.
‘We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.’
Earlier this month, Romy revealed she was thankful for ‘family and health’ and recently shared pictures of her swimming in the sea with her father. As well as Nick, their other sibling is Jake Reiner, who is a news reporter in Houston, Texas.
Reiner also adopted another daughter, Tracy Reiner, with his first wife Penny Marshall.
A picture Romy shared on Instagram posing with her brother Nick
Los Angeles Police Department detectives say the deaths are being investigated as homicides, and a heavy police presence was at the home on Sunday evening.
A neighbor told ABC7 that Larry David and Billy Crystal – who starred in Reiner’s rom-com classic When Harry Met Sally – visited the crime scene separately, and Crystal allegedly ‘looked like he was about to cry’ before he left.
Reiner and his wife are understood to have lived in the home, and property records obtained by the Daily Mail indicate that they are the owners.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Reiner and the LAPD for comment.
In a press conference, LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said a suspect in the murders had not yet been identified. He added that no one had yet been interviewed as a suspect and that no one was in custody.
‘We’re going to try to speak to every family member that we can to get to the facts of this investigation,’ Hamilton continued.
He noted that the bodies were still in the home, as police were waiting on a warrant to reenter the home and begin their investigation after determining that there was no further threat.
Firefighters reportedly called police to the scene just minutes after they arrived; police are seen outside the home on Sunday night
He said there were no signs of forced entry into the residence.
Hamilton added that the home was in the exact same state that it had been after police first arrived to find the bodies.
The LAPD declined to identify the bodies, as that information will be officially announced by the LA County Coroner.
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass said she was ‘heartbroken’ by the Reiners’ deaths, calling them ‘a devastating loss for our city and our country.’
‘Rob Reiner’s contributions reverberate throughout American culture and society, and he has improved countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice,’ Bass said in a statement.
Reiner followed in the footsteps of his father, the comic actor and filmmaker Carl Reiner, who died in 2020 aged 98.
He became known as an actor, director and a tireless champion of liberal politics, with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama among the Democrats to pay tribute to Reiner on Sunday night.
Rob first emerged as an actor and is best known for his role as Michael ‘Meathead’ Stivic on All In The Family.
He won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for five Golden Globes during his stint on the series from 1971 to 1978.
Rob helped reinvent his career in the 1980s with his forward-looking comedy This Is Spinal Tap, which would go on to inspire countless mockumentaries.
