The Money Stopped: Alan Jackson Withdraws, Nick Reiner Now Has a Public Defender He Met for 30 Seconds
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
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Summary
Three weeks ago, Nick Reiner had the best criminal defense money could buy. Alan Jackson — the attorney who got Karen Read acquitted, who represented Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey — was building what looked like an insanity defense backed by a two-hundred-million-dollar estate.
Today, Jackson told a Los Angeles judge he had "no choice" but to withdraw. Nick Reiner now has a public defender named Kimberly Greene. She was informed last night. She had thirty seconds to speak with her new client before the hearing.
Sources tell Deadline that money is the likely reason. The deep pockets apparently dried up.
This is significant. For seventeen years, Rob and Michele Reiner's money was the solution to every crisis Nick created. Eighteen rehab programs. Seventy thousand a month in treatment facilities. A guest house on the family estate. And when he was arrested for allegedly stabbing them to death, sources said the estate was funding his elite defense.
That pattern appears to have finally broken.
Jackson held a press conference outside the courthouse. He said Nick is "not guilty of murder" under California law. He said his team had investigated the case "top to bottom, back to front." He said he remains "deeply committed" to Nick's best interests. But he's not the one arguing the case anymore.
DA Nathan Hochman responded: "We are fully confident that a jury will convict Nick Reiner beyond a reasonable doubt of the brutal murders of his parents."
Nick's arraignment is now February 23rd. No plea entered. No bail. And for the first time in his life, he's facing consequences without someone writing a check to soften the blow.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Alan Jackson is out. |
| 0:11.0 | That's the big headline, as you probably already know about. |
| 0:16.0 | Alan Jackson is out as Nick Reiner's attorney. What does this all mean? Now, going forward, |
| 0:26.2 | we are going to break all of that down. Now that the dust has settled a little bit on this. |
| 0:32.9 | We're going to be going through this in a series of videos over the next couple of days. But let's start somewhere, |
| 0:39.5 | shall we? And while we do, I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section on YouTube, |
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| 1:12.0 | Okay, so three weeks ago, Alan Jackson was the million-dollar defense attorney |
| 1:19.0 | building the insanity defense for the biggest murder case in Hollywood history. |
| 1:23.7 | A lot of us chatting this up over the holidays, right? |
| 1:27.5 | The guy who got Karen Reid acquitted, the guy who represented Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, |
| 1:33.5 | the guy whose cases cost five, six, seven figures. |
| 1:38.6 | The thought process was, okay, well, he ain't cheap. |
| 1:43.7 | Nick hasn't made a dime of money pretty much a day in his life. |
| 1:50.2 | That's probably not completely accurate, but hasn't exactly had a track record of holding down a career. |
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