Filmmaker Rob Reiner's son charged with murder in parents' slaying


Flowers are placed at Rob Reiner's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, after the actor-director and political activist and his wife were found dead, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole

LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political activist Rob Reiner was formally charged on Tuesday with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, who were found slain in their Los Angeles home over the weekend.

Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested several hours after the bodies of his father, actor-director Rob Reiner, 78, and mother, photographer-producer Michele Reiner, 70, were discovered on Sunday afternoon in the couple's house in the affluent west LA neighborhood of Brentwood.

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