Nick Reiner, the son of celebrated film director Rob Reiner, 78, and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, 68, has been held in police custody on suspicion of double homicide after his parents were found dead at their Los Angeles home on Sunday. His arrest has been reported in multiple media outlets.
Reiner, 32, was taken into custody on Sunday night and charged with murder. He is being held without bail.
Several sources say that he was seen arguing in a heated manner with his father at a party given by American television host Conan O’Brien on Saturday night.
The younger Reiner has previously gone public with his mental health difficulties and problems with substance abuse. He has undergone several stints in rehab as well as periods of homelessness.
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Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has sparked outrage and revulsion with a social media post in which he claimed that the older Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Trump claimed without foundation that Reiner had a “raging obsession” with Trump’s administration. He then used the occasion of the director’s murder as an occasion for grandstanding, claiming the Trump administration had “surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness … with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.”
California’s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom responded on X, calling Trump “a sick man.”
Republican US House member Thomas Massie of Kentucky said to Trump: “Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.”
