{"id":7421,"date":"2025-12-15T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/rob-reiner-wife-murdered\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:06:00","slug":"rob-reiner-wife-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/rob-reiner-wife-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Rob Reiner, Wife Murdered By Son At L.A. Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/Rob_Reiner_LBJ_Library_2016_-_DIG13955_105.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1311\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Rob Reiner in 2016 (photo: Jay Godwin, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered by their 32-year-old son Nick at their Los Angeles home, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rob-reiner-wife-michele-were-killed-by-son-sources-11868856?taid=693f86d55354dc0001707a16&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">multiple reports<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/14\/rob-reiner-wife-michele-found-dead-los-angeles-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Per <em>TMZ<\/em><\/a>, the couple were discovered Sunday afternoon (Dec. 14) and appeared to have \u201csuffered lacerations consistent with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Reiner is now in Los Angeles Police Department custody. He reportedly struggled for years with drug addiction and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/green-days-mike-dirnt-talks-about-creating-their-most-essential-record-in-years\/\">Green Day\u2019s Mike Dirnt Talks About Creating Their Most \u2018Essential\u2019 Record in Years<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/how-run-dmc-made-christmas-cool-for-hip-hop\/\">How Run-DMC Made Christmas Cool for Hip-Hop<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/just-2deadboyz\/\">Just 2DeadBoyz<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rob Reiner, 78, was the son of legendary writer\/actor\/director Carl Reiner. He starred from 1971-1978 as the lovable Michael \u201cMeathead\u201d Stivic on <em>All in the Family<\/em>, and went on to direct such beloved films as <em>Stand by Me<\/em>, <em>The Princess Bride<\/em>, <em>A Few Good Men<\/em> and <em>When Harry Met Sally<\/em>. But it was his stewardship of the pioneering 1984 rock\u2019n\u2019roll mockumetary <em>This Is Spinal Tap<\/em> that cemented his place in the hearts of music fans.<\/p>\n<p>Reiner directed, co-wrote and starred as the film\u2019s fictional director, Mary DiBergi, who chronicled a disastrous album launch and U.S. tour by fading U.K. rockers Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer). The film\u2019s spot-on portrayal of rock\u2019n\u2019roll behavior and clich\u00e9s became the stuff of legend \u2014 memorized on tour buses by bands all over the world and its dialog recited like Bible verse for decades ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the first generation that grew up on rock\u2019n\u2019roll \u2014 we love rock\u2019n\u2019roll! So to find that crease between paying homage and loving rock n\u2019roll and at the same time making fun of it, that was a tricky line to walk,\u201d Reiner <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rob-reiner-talks-this-is-spinal-tap-as-film-returns-to-theaters-exclusive-11765940#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe're%20the%20first%20generation,from%20people%20that%20we%20knew.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>People<\/em><\/a> earlier this year. \u201cVirtually everything that happens is taken from something that we either experienced with people, because in the late \u201960s, the rock\u2019n\u2019roll world and the improv world, which is where I come from, there was kind of a cross-pollination there, so I was very much aware of what goes on tour and what happens, [and] we got stories from people that we knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A sequel, <em>Spinal Tap II: The End Continues<\/em>, was released in September and reunited Reiner with McKean, Guest and Shearer, plus real-life musicians such as Paul McCartney and Elton John.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRob was a friend and collaborator through much of my life,\u201d Shearer said. \u201cHe was funny, he was smart, he was a mensch. When he came to see the comedy act I was in, and, later, the musical comedy I had co-written, his laugh was uproarious and audible around the block. He was a great collaborator, and when the four of us proposed ideas for the films, he was the one who wrote them on 3\u00d75 cards, and organized them into a movie. And Michele was a very good friend to my wife Judith. This is unspeakable, the stuff of Greek tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a shared statement from Guest and his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, the couple said they \u201care numb and sad and shocked about the violent, tragic deaths of our dear friends Rob and Michele Singer Reiner. Our ONLY focus and care right now is for their children and immediate families and we will offer all support possible to help them. There will be plenty of time later to discuss the creative lives we shared and the great political and social impact they both had on the entertainment industry, early childhood development, the fight for gay marriage and their global care for a world in crisis. We have lost great friends. Please give us time to grieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Reiner in 2016 (photo: Jay Godwin, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered by their 32-year-old son Nick at their Los Angeles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,4779,3099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pushly","category-rob-reiner","category-spinal-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}