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Police took Rob Reiner’s lad into custody aft the Hollywood manager of hits including “When Harry Met Sally” and his woman were recovered dormant successful their Los Angeles home, U.S. media reported connected Monday (December 15, 2025).
Networks CBS and ABC said Nick Reiner was arrested, and the Los Angeles Times reported helium was booked into the Los Angeles County jailhouse connected suspicion of murder, citing jailhouse records.
Los Angeles lawman constabulary main Alan Hamilton had said earlier they were seeking to interrogation “every household member” of the 78-year-old actor-director and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
The bodies were discovered connected Sunday (December 14) and constabulary said they were treating the lawsuit arsenic an “apparent homicide.”
As tributes poured successful for Reiner, Donald Trump unleashed a crude broadside connected the Hollywood icon, appearing to blasted the deaths connected the director’s “raging” disapproval of the U.S. President.
Several U.S. quality media cited constabulary sources arsenic saying the mates were stabbed, portion personage quality website TMZ, which archetypal broke the story, reported that their throats had been chopped by a household subordinate during an argument.
Reiner directed classical films including 1984’s stone euphony mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap,” phantasy gem “The Princess Bride” from 1987, and the 1992 courtroom play “A Few Good Men.”
His films spanned everything from laugh-out-loud drama to searing play and earned him a planetary following.
Reiner was politically progressive and an outspoken protagonist of progressive causes — perchance a crushed for the bonzer connection by Mr. Trump connected Monday (December 15), little than a time aft the killings.
While movie fans astir the satellite grieved, Mr. Trump claimed Reiner died “reportedly owed to the choler helium caused others done his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a caput crippling illness known arsenic TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
“He was known to person driven radical CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his evident paranoia reaching caller heights arsenic the Trump Administration surpassed each goals and expectations of greatness,” the President posted.
A beloved manager
Democratic politicians and Hollywood figures expressed daze implicit the deaths.
Former U.S. vice-president Kamala Harris was friends with the mates and said connected X she was “devastated to larn of their passing,” portion erstwhile president Barack Obama said helium and his woman Michelle were “heartbroken.”
Reiner gave tv and movie viewers “some of our astir cherished stories connected screen. But beneath each of the stories helium produced was a heavy content successful the goodness of people,” Mr. Obama said connected X.
Movie heavyweight John Cusack said helium was “at a nonaccomplishment for immoderate words that marque sense” astir the deaths.
Horror and thriller writer Stephen King, whose novella “The Body” was the ground for Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age classical “Stand By Me,” lauded a “wonderful friend.”
Reiner roseate to acting fame arsenic the oafish son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic connected groundbreaking 1970s sitcom “All successful the Family,” earlier transitioning to directing. Even arsenic a unit down the camera, helium often appeared successful cameo roles successful his ain films.
He directed the 1989 romanticist drama “When Harry Met Sally,” starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, and famously formed his real-life parent Estelle Reiner to utter the enactment “I’ll person what she’s having” aft Ryan’s classical fake orgasm country successful Katz’s Delicatessen.
His 1992 thriller “A Few Good Men,” starring Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, earned an Oscar information for Best Picture.
Reiner backed efforts to unafraid adjacent matrimony rights for LGBTQ radical and make California’s First 5 program, which provides kid improvement programs funded by taxes connected baccy products.
He besides helped fundraise for Democratic statesmanlike candidates including Hillary Clinton.
He was the lad of legendary comedian Carl Reiner, who won 11 Emmy Awards for his tv performances and wrote screenplays with movie greats Mel Brooks and Neil Simon.
