Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer posed with their whole family in September before enjoying a holiday just weeks before their daughter Remy, 28, who lives across the street, found their dead bodies at their sprawling six-bedroom estate.
Police confirmed on Sunday night that a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman, believed to be those of Rob and Michele, were discovered inside their $13.5million Brentwood mansion, in what police are investigating as a double homicide.
It has now been revealed that police are questioning a relative over the alleged murder of Michele and Rob, who made many of the best-known movies of the 1980s and 1990s, including Stand By Me in 1987, legal thriller A Few Good Men in 1992 and romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally in 1989.
Romy’s Instagram is littered with videos and images with her father, with a post from 1 December documenting their family holiday, with both her mother and father posing in the sea, and a caption professing she was ‘thankful for family’.
Meanwhile, in September Rob and his wife posed for their final full family photo with children Romy, Nick, Jake and Jake’s wife Maria Gilfillan at the premiere for Spinal Tap 2, which he directed and wrote.
A Reiner family spokesperson confirmed the deaths, saying: ‘It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,’ they said.
‘We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.’
Los Angeles Police Department detectives say the deaths are being investigated as homicides, and a heavy police presence was at the home on Sunday evening.
A neighbour told ABC7 that Larry David and Billy Crystal — who starred in Reiner’s rom-com classic When Harry Met Sally — visited the crime scene separately, and Crystal allegedly ‘looked like he was about to cry’ before he left.
The couple reportedly lived in the home, and property records obtained by the Daily Mail indicate that they are the owners. The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Reiner and the LAPD for comment.
In a press conference, LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said a suspect in the murders had not yet been identified. He added that no one had yet been interviewed as a suspect and that no one was in custody.
Among bikini snaps and poses with pals, Romy’s page is frequently an ode to her love and friendship with her father, to whom she was incredibly close.
Throwing her support behind her father’s work, in September she posted a picture from behind the scenes at the Spinal Tap sequel, seeing smiling Rob, who directed and narated the film as Marty DiBergi, standing at his trailer.
Other videos show her interviewing her father in hilarious scenes – including discussing Kim Kardashian’s bottom and Romy’s failed attempt at nepotism.
Her first ever Instagram picture in 2014, showed her father on the beach with a dog alongside a caption reading: ‘A man and his dog.’
Romy has a brother, Nick, 32, who has previously spoken about his struggles with drug addiction and bouts of homelessness. Their youngest sibling is Jake Reiner, who is a news reporter in Houston, Texas.
Reiner also adopted another daughter, Tracy Reiner, with his first wife Penny Marshall.
In 2016, Rob directed the film Being Charlie, a semi-autobiographical drama written by Nick that he said was inspired by his numerous rehab visits, the first of which was around when he turned 15.
‘I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas,’ Nick recalled while speaking about the film in a 2016 interview with People. ‘I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun.’
Nick, who said he had gone to rehab 17 more times as of 2016, also claimed to have lived on the streets after he refused to go back to a rehab program.
In 2016, when he was 22, he said that his last rehab stint had been three years earlier.
He said at the time of Being Charlie’s release that he hoped to stay off drugs so that he would never be homeless again: ‘When I was out there, I could’ve died. It’s all luck. You roll the dice and you hope you make it’.
In an interview with the BUILD series while promoting Being Charlie in 2016, Nick said that he ‘didn’t bond’ well with his father, who sat by his side during the interview, when he was younger.
‘It really clicked for me because we didn’t bond a lot as a kid,’ Nick said. ‘He really liked baseball, I liked basketball, and he could watch that with my brother — baseball — but I just, when I saw [Rob Reiner direct Being Charlie], it was something that I’m interested in.
‘I was like, “Wow, he really knows a lot,” and it made me feel closer to him,’ Nick said at the time.
In a press conference on Monday, LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said a suspect in the murders had not yet been identified. He added that no one had yet been interviewed as a suspect and that no one was in custody.
‘We’re going to try to speak to every family member that we can to get to the facts of this investigation,’ Hamilton continued.
He noted that the bodies were still in the home, as police were waiting on a warrant to reenter the home and begin their investigation after determining that there was no further threat.
In a statement, LA Mayor Karen Bass said she was ‘heartbroken’ by the Reiners’ deaths, calling them ‘a devastating loss for our city and our country.’
‘Rob Reiner’s contributions reverberate throughout American culture and society, and he has improved countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice,’ Bass said
In September, Rob released Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the sequel to his iconic 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, which he co-wrote, directed and appeared in.
He followed his father, the comic actor and filmmaker Carl Reiner — who died in 2020 at 98 — into Hollywood, where he became known as an actor, director and a tireless champion of liberal politics.
Rob first emerged as an actor and is best known for his role as Michael ‘Meathead’ Stivic on All In The Family.
He won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for five Golden Globes during his stint on the series from 1971 to 1978.
Rob helped reinvent his career in the 1980s with his forward-looking comedy This Is Spinal Tap, which would go on to inspire countless mockumentaries.
