Nick Reiner Spent 18 Trips to Rehab Gaming the System — Now His Dead Parents Pay for Alan Jackson
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Nick Reiner told the world exactly who he was. In 2016 interviews, he admitted he hated getting sober, chose homelessness over rehab, and met his heroin dealer through connections he made in treatment. He called himself "a spoiled, white, rich kid from a Hollywood family" and said he had "resistance every time they tried to reach me." His father Rob Reiner acknowledged they ignored Nick when he said the programs weren't working because they trusted the professionals over their own son.
Eighteen rehab stints by age twenty-two. Facilities costing up to $70,000 per month. A wilderness program in Utah where Nick says the seed of his heroin addiction was planted. And through it all, the money kept flowing. Ten thousand dollars a month in allowance. A guest house on the Brentwood estate. Every bill paid.
Now Rob and Michele Reiner are dead, allegedly stabbed by Nick in their bedroom on December 14th. And according to sources, their estate is funding Nick's defense. His attorney is Alan Jackson, the high-powered lawyer who represented Kevin Spacey and got Karen Read acquitted. Jackson's fees run into the millions. Nick has never worked.
Nick is off suicide watch and faces arraignment tomorrow. The defense will likely argue mental illness — Nick was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia and his meds were changed weeks before the killings. But this isn't just a story about mental health. It's about seventeen years of checks that bought everything except accountability. And one final check, signed from beyond the grave.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruskey. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.6 | Here's a fun question. Who pays for your lawyer when you're accused of murdering your parents? |
| 0:15.0 | Especially when your parents have been the ones that have been your main source of income. |
| 0:20.1 | For your entire existence into your adult life |
| 0:24.8 | into your 30s if you're Nick Reiner the answer is your dead parents that's who pays for your |
| 0:34.3 | defense the parents parents are dead. |
| 0:43.3 | Likely because of you, allegedly, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that, insert that to everything we're talking about here. |
| 0:44.8 | Let that stand for a second. |
| 0:47.5 | According to multiple sources close to the Reiner family, the money funding Nick Reiner's |
| 0:52.8 | criminal defense, a defense that will cost millions of dollars |
| 0:56.2 | handled by one of the most expensive attorneys in California is coming from the estate |
| 1:01.8 | of Rob and Michelle Reiner allegedly. |
| 1:04.0 | The same Rob and Michelle Reiner that Nick allegedly stabbed to death in their Brentwood |
| 1:08.8 | bedroom on December 14th of 2025. |
| 1:11.5 | The same Robin Michelle Reiner who spent 17 years writing checks to save their son from himself. |
| 1:19.3 | The same Robin Michelle Reiner who are now from beyond the grave writing one more. |
| 1:33.5 | This isn't speculation this isn't gossip multiple outlets have reported that family sources confirm the defense is being funded by the |
| 1:39.4 | estate I mean where else would it be coming from unless Alan Jackson is doing |
| 1:43.5 | this pro bono I mean which is else would it be coming from? Unless Alan Jackson is doing this pro bono, |
| 1:44.4 | which is a possibility. Anything is possible, though, right? But according to those sources, |
| 1:52.2 | that's where it's coming from. That's the allegation anyway. When Nick's attorney, Alan Jackson, |
| 1:57.5 | was asked directly who was paying, he said, I can't comment. But insiders |
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