The Los Angeles Police have arrested Nick (32 years old), the middle son of Rob y Michele Reiner, and keeps him detained with a bail of 4 million dollarsas reported this Monday, December 15, the media TMZ.
Early in the morning he had already been identified as alleged suspect of the murder of the emblematic director and his wife.
The young man has been in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department since Monday morning and has admitted to jailas reported Page Six.
The American film director and his wife were found dead last Sunday at their home in Los Angeleswhere according to the first indications leaked by the press they would have been beheaded by one of their sons.
He found their bodies Romy (28), one of the filmmaker’s daughters, who according to that digital was the one who told the police that a member of the family had killed them and indicated to the agents that said person should be considered as suspicious because it was “dangerous.”
He Los Angeles Fire Department He received a call for a medical emergency at 3:30 p.m. local time (23:30 GMT) and when his troops arrived they found Reiner, 78, and his wife, 68, already deceased.
The couple married in 1989, the same year the director released When Harry Met Sallyand they had three children: Romy, Nick and Jake (34). Furthermore, Reiner adopted Tracy (61), daughter of his first wife, Penny Marshall.
Rob Reiner and his son Nick during an interview together.
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Nick, the one in the spotlight, He had had addiction problems in the past and lived on the streets.
He participated in the script of Being Charliereleased in 2015 and which was based on his addiction problems. It tells about an 18-year-old addict who, after managing to escape from a rehabilitation center, returns home.
He author of classics as count on me (1986), The princess bride (1987), Misery (1990), some good men (1992) was not a director well known to the general public, but his films transcended his own name.
His debut on the big screen was This is Spinal Tap (1984), and mockumentary with which the filmmaker made this genre fashionable that uses a documentary style to tell a fictional story.
In his case, that of a British music band, one of whose members was the filmmaker himself.
Rob Reiner with his wife Michele Singer in an image from 2018.
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Reiner also treasured an acting career and participated in films as The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), of Martin Scorse, the series the series All in family (1971-1979).
For his work in the latter he won two Emmys, in 1974 and 1978, for best supporting actor in a comedy.
Born in the Bronx (New York) on March 6, 1947, he was the son of the writer, director and comedian Carl Reiner, and the actress too Estelle Reiner.
His death has shocked both the world of arts and politics..
The family has said in a statement that they are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and actors who worked with him as Kathy Bates (77) – protagonist of Misery– y John Cusack (59)- love games at university– have also claimed to be devastated or in shock.
Cary Elwes (63), who starred with RobinWright (59) The princess bride He posted on his Instagram account a black and white photo of the two chairs that he and the director used during filming, along with the message “Speechless.”
And his co-star Christopher Guest (77) said he was devastated.
Your colleague Joe Russo (54), responsible for the last two feature films of the Avengersmade a play on words with the title of one of Reiner’s films and He mourned the loss of “one of the few good men”in addition to pointing out that “one of the best filmmakers of all time” has left.
Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife, Michele. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen. But beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 15, 2025
While the former US president Barack Obama (64) and his wife, Michelle (61), indicated that they were “heartbroken” and noted in X that his achievements in film and television provided some of the most treasured stories on screen.
And for the former Democratic vice president Kamala Harris (61), his career has reached generations of Americans.
Reiner, according to the filmmaker Paul Feig (63), was “a true visionary titan.”
“You never know if it’s appropriate to post something in the midst of a tragedy like this, but I just want the world to know what so many of us in the industry know: Rob was the best“, he said in X, summarizing the opinion of many.