Double Murder in Brentwood: Hollywood Legend and Wife Killed | Rob & Michele Reiner

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Argument at Conan O'Brien's Christmas Party? Legendary filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife of 36 years, Michele Singer Reiner, a respected photographer and producer, were found dead inside their Brentwood, Los Angeles home in an apparent double homicide. Within hours, police arrested their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, and he now remains in custody on suspicion of murder as investigators race to piece together what happened in the hours leading up to the fatal incident.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. I'm Ashley Bannfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. There is some
0:09.7	breaking news out of Los Angeles. It's sending shockwaves right across the country. I'm going to
0:16.2	just tell you, there's not one person who has not been affected by the death of Rob Reiner and his wife.
0:24.1	And I say that, even if you're not a fan, he either directed or wrote or starred in something
0:30.4	that was meaningful in your life, right? Maybe way, way back it was Archie Bunker when he was
0:36.4	Meathead. Maybe it was a few good men. Maybe it was when Harry met Sally. Maybe it was spinal tap or the reboot of spinal tap. Rob Reiner was iconic in Hollywood. And he was iconic in politics as well. Leftist politics. He was just so committed to his political causes. His murder
0:57.1	is reverberating way, way past Hollywood. The brutal killings of this Hollywood legend and his
1:04.5	wife is a family tragedy. Rob was murdered in his home yesterday, along with his wife of 36 years,
1:31.2	Michelle Reiner. She was a producer and a photographer, and it is their son, Nick Reiner, who's locked up tonight and suspected of knifing his parents to death after a heated fight that took place at the home of Conan O'Brien,
1:35.5	the famous comedian at his annual A-list Christmas party.
1:39.9	Conan O'Brien has this huge Christmas party every year.
1:41.2	And it's kind of the talk of the town.
1:44.6	Like if you get invited to Conan O'Brien's party, you're somebody, right?
1:49.5	And everybody always talks about who, you know, who got invited, who didn't get invited,
1:51.1	and what happened at Conan's party.
1:55.2	And as it turns out, the party was just on December 13th.
1:56.1	That was Saturday night.
2:00.7	And Rob and Michelle were there with their son Nick. I'm going to tell you everything that I know so far about some weird stuff that happened at the party.
2:07.6	Also a couple of very upsetting new details about the injuries that were suffered by Rob and Michelle.
2:13.6	And then again, this curious behavior of their son Nick that he was exhibiting at the Christmas party at Conan's mansion, right?
2:24.6	Along with some of the movies that I already mentioned, Rob Reiner is famous for box office hits like the Princess Bride, Stand By Me, The American President by Aaron Sorkin, and the list
2:36.7	goes on and on and on. The news broke on Sunday night December 14th that the couple had been found
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