Son of Rob Reiner, Wife Michele Arrested for Allegedly Killing Them
Honestly, there is not much confirmed information out there about what happened.
***UPDATE BEFORE I POST: The authorities arrested Nick Reiner, 32, son of Rob and Michele, on suspicion of felony murder.
He’s being held on $4 million bail.
Rob Reiner and wife Michele’s son Nick arrested for murder in parents’ stabbing deaths https://t.co/J9nWqGTX6d pic.twitter.com/dIWRh9USxw
— Page Six (@PageSix) December 15, 2025
***My original post.
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call reporting deaths at Rob Reiner’s house on Sunday at 3:40 PM local time.
Rob, 78, and his wife, Michele, 68, were found dead.
According to The New York Times, the LAPD “said they were investigating ‘an apparent homicide.'”
There is so much information swirling around from “sources.”
TMZ, which is usually correct, found out that Rob and Michele “suffered lacerations with a knife.”
Rob and Michele have three children. Rob, previously married to the late Penny Marshall, adopted her daughter.
Apparently, one of the daughters discovered the bodies, called the police, and told them “a family member killed them.”
Other sources told People Magazine that Rob and Michele’s son Nick killed them.
The article reported that police confirmed “Nick, 32, is alive and being questioned,” but no one has been arrested.
In 2016, Nick told People about his problems:
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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Was never a big fan of him politically, but after learning the circumstances of him and his wife.
God bless them both.
Total left wing crank but no one deserves to die like that. Pretty sad stuff.
In life I despised the man’s unhinged TDS, but I certainly wouldn’t wish something like this on him and his family.
He and his Democrat pals love violence against anyone who is not “one of us.” So his dying as he died is rather fitting, is it not?
Done in by his own son over whom Meathead had full control from birth. Nice work, Meathead.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
So, hearing hate “against the right” in Meathead’s household since childhood did have adverse consequences.
We should not be like the Left following the death of prominent person on the Right.
His kid is screwed up. There are plenty of people on the right, plenty of Christians, who have children who are broken as well.
Right. Like Tyler Robinson?
You’re a bit of an ass aren’t you.
A relapse is an expected hiccup on the road to recovery. I hope this motivates Nick to redouble his efforts to stay clean and sober.
Prison authorities will insist, though if you have enough $$$ even prisoners can get drugs.
Maybe Newsom will give him early release, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Maybe he can join fellow orphans, the Menendez brothers.
Relapse is frequent, but also optional. Even after 15,173 days, I have yet to hear anyone say “relapsing was the best idea I ever had.” Neither have I ever heard anyone qualify in units of boxes, yet. I did read on the side of a 5L box that it lasts up to 6 weeks in the refrigerator. My guess is that no 5L box has ever lasted longer than 2 days after being opened, because there is nothing casual about 5L.
Maybe Stephen King can adopt Nick now
I have to say, that this is a case where I must separate the man’s political opinions from his art. He made some brilliant movies – which were nonpolitical.
I am tremendously sad… this is a fate I would not wish on my worst enemy, and Reiner was not that
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child
Well said.
He was a more than competent actor and IMO a much underappreciated director. His politics seemed to be based on a worldview stuck in the ’60s which isn’t at all rare for Boomers, maybe 1/3 to near 1/2 stuck there unable to figure out society/culture adopted 90% of what they were advocating but remained unwilling to take yes for an answer, book the W and stop yapping/nagging. There’s very few people that deserve killing and Reiner and wife were not part of that small group. Senseless and tragic doesn’t seem adequate in describing this.
I enjoyed his movies and loathed his politics in equal measure but I mourn his loss without reservation and that of his wife. For their children, the heartbreak is certainly overwhelming and tragic. Rest in peace, Meathead. You deserved better.
This is terrible news! Despised the guys politics, unhinged TDS sufferer but would never wish this upon anyone!!
I can’t imagine the horror of it all.
RIP
Absolutely horrible news but hardly surprising.
Reiner grew up in the Hollywood echo chamber of liberal privilege where feelings matter more than rational thought. His unbridled empathy towards like-minded individuals and utter disdain for anyone else created a person who was so kind that he became cruel. South Park depicted him as a hypocritical tyrant and that seems pretty spot on from the interviews I watched. Homelife was likely a mirror image of a dolting tyrant.
His son Nick was in rehab 17 times since the age of 15 for heroin and when he refused rehab, was thrown out to live on the streets but every time the Reiners relented and Nick brought back into his parents home. Yet we know re-entering an environment where the user began taking drugs leads to relapse. Nick’s drug using environment was the Reiner home and after each rehab brought back into that home for a guaranteed relapse. It was a pattern so kind yet so cruel.
With his drug addled mind, Nick broke the cycle. Pity that it took this tragedy for that to happen but not surprising given the personality involved.
It’s a shame, because his father Carl was a real mensch. I have no idea what his politics were, and that’s probably the secret. He was a funny guy, but over and above, he was a professional. And that’s why America loved him.
Apparently Nick became , ready for this, a Trans
Don’t know how far he went with it, like meds, it dear God so many of Hollywoods children are “Trans”
It’s the “in” thing
Bull.
Gloria: “Did you know that 65% of the people murdered in the last 10 years was killed by handguns?”
Archie: “”Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windas?”
“Something is wrong here, and it’s more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It’s about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.” — Rob Reiner
I’m not relishing the guy’s death, I’m exposing the overarching irony of a liberal worldview that worries about all the wrong things all of the time — all the way to total systems failure.
Like most here, I disagreed with his politics and find disgusting anyone who would cheer this news. That said, I will not weep over his grave.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it is civilized to not pile onto an unfortunate accident” and use it for one’s own purpose. On the other hand:
1) I continually had to come across his mentally deranged totally unhinged TDS comments which left me wanted to kick him repeatedly in the gonads.
2) We just went through the left celebrating an assassination of Charlie Kirk which left me with a bad taste and kind of motivates to want me to respond in kind.
In conclusion this is no tragedy except for their friends and surviving family members. For me I’m glad I want have to suffer his TDS any more.
I’ve seen a lot of this so this isn’t specific to you but This wasn’t the Charlie Kirk situation…not even close.
Reiner wasn’t killed for his beliefs but his relationship with a troubled relative. The Kirk assassination is not a parallel because it represents an entire political faction that is unwilling to peacefully co-exist and wants to silence the other. Some on that side have proven extreme enough to do it with real domestic terrorism, scoped rifle in tow.
I understand your comment but Kirk would have been vilified regardless of how he denied. As I said before I understood why people responded the way they did. I’m pretty satisfied when people I dislike kick the bucket. It may not be a civilized response but I won’t deny I have that.
I try to think of it as analogous to ‘bravery’. It isn’t the absence of fear that makes one brave but rather acting in way opposite of the inclination to hide/cower. Same here, true compassion would be finding positive things to say or at least no negative things to say about the deceased when you dislike them (so long as the things are true, no need to sacrifice personal integrity).
Interestingly, Reiner had publicly stated that he felt “absolute horror” at Kirk’s assassination.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/us-news/rob-reiner-said-he-felt-absolute-horror-at-charlie-kirks-assassination-in-one-of-his-final-interviews/
Yes I remember seeing that,
“Show Biz kids making movies of themselves you know they don’t give an F about anyone else.” I guess they didn’t play this song enough in LA for it to take hold. As Yoda told us, “narcissists do not good parents make.”
A good parent is one whose child exceeds the parent’s accomplishments. The Reiners have been on a steep decline since Carl, IMHO.
I wish I could say something nice about him but if it were Trump who is no longer living, I can’t help but think Reiner would be ready to dance on his grave with joy.
Mrs. Reiner did not deserve to die that way and their daughter does not need to live with the memory of finding her parents that way.
Be careful what you wish for…
Sincere and Heartfelt condolences to his loved ones.
Apparently, the son had Meathead Derangement Syndrome.
But Reiner’s death was not a political act. It was not an assassination carried out by some radical loon. It was not in retaliation for anything he said about Trump. If that was the case than a bit of “Now you get to see what it feels like.” would not be the most defensible response but it would be somewhat understandable.
Instead his and his wife’s murder was a deeply personal, tragic, and horrifying event. So for people (especially Trump) to bring Reiner’s politics into it is just wrong. For anyone to opine that he deserved such a death because of his politics is grossly wrong. For some people to assume they know just how Reiner’s son was reared and that being reared in a Leftist household lead to his murdering his parents is an insult to all parents who tried over and over again to help a child struggling with addiction. Good parents of all political stripes.
Oh and in case you are ignorant of the fact being stabbed is a God-awful way to die. Reiner and his wife felt every single time that blade went in. Every slash. Every thrust. Every damn time (unless they were unconscious). It is messy. As in hire a special hazmat cleaning crew messy.
If someone’s politics means they are unable to express regret at what happened they should at least have the decency to stay silent.
I remember when Golda Meir was asked to predict when Gamal Abdel Nasser would die and her response was that it would be on a holiday. The interviewer then asked which holiday? Answer: whatever day he dies will be a holiday.
I was at a dance at the JCC the evening when it was announced that Eichman had been executed in Israel. The room when up in cheers.
Although we often are told not to speak ill of the dead, there is no requirement to hypocritically lie about your feelings and opinions of one who dies, even if they died under tragic conditions. In Mr. Reiner’s case, he expended great effort and wealth to destroy President Trump. He knowingly lied to harm him, his family and his friends over, among other things, the Russia collusion lies. Reiner supported putting Trump in prison for life, destroying his business, and destroying his children and supporters for being Trump, not over policy.
There was nothing evil in Reiner’s political disagreements with Trump. But it was evil to use lies and fabrications to attempt to destroy Trump and all those around him. Beat him fair and square on the issues, but not on outright lies. Judaism requires that we hate and fight evil. That is the basis for confessing to “causeless hate” on Yom Kippur. When your hate is for good cause, there is no requirement to cease it, even if that hate is only relevant to you and not the general population at large.
While it is often difficult to accept Trumps brash, blunt and honest comments, it would have been totally dishonest and hypocritical for him to respond any other way to Mr. Reiner’s death, may he rest in peace.
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