A family member of Rob Reiner’s was questioned after he and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Los Angeles home, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
AP did not specify which member of the Reiner family was questioned. People reported that multiple sources who have spoken to the family claimed that the late couple’s 32-year-old son Nick is responsible for their death. Los Angeles Police have not confirmed the report, and no arrests have been made.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a medical aid request on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 14. They found Reiner, 78, and Singer Reiner, 68, dead when they arrived. A law enforcement official told AP that investigators believe the couple suffered stab wounds. Their deaths are being investigated as apparent homicides.
Reiner rose to fame as Mike “Meathead” Stivic on the CBS sitcom “All in the Family,” which aired from 1971 to 1979. He later acted in films including “Sleepless in Seattle” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Reiner also directed beloved films including “Stand By Me,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Princess Bride,” “Misery” and “A Few Good Men.”
Singer Reiner was a photographer and producer who collaborated with her husband on films including “Misery” and “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.”
Reiner and Singer Reiner, who tied the knot in 1989, shared three children: Nick, son Jake and daughter Romy. Reiner also adopted daughter Tracy, his first wife Penny Marshall’s daughter from a previous relationship.
Nick has been candid about his years-long struggle with drug addiction. He did his first stint in rehab when he was 15 and was homeless for an extended period of time.
“If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting, then I had to be homeless,” Nick told People in 2016. “I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas. … I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun.”
Nick cowrote the 2015 film “Being Charlie,” which is based on his experience with heroin addiction and homelessness. His father directed the film. While promoting “Being Charlie” during a 2015 interview with The Los Angeles Times, Reiner recalled feeling helpless in the face of his son’s addiction battle.
“When Nick would tell us that [rehab] wasn’t working for him, we wouldn’t listen. We were desperate and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son,” he confessed.
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Nick told the outlet that he eventually quit drugs when he “got sick” of using.
“I got sick of doing that. I come from a nice family, I’m not supposed to be out there on the streets and in homeless shelters doing all these … things,” he said.
Reiner’s daughter Tracy also spoke highly of the family when reacting to his and Singer Reiner’s deaths.
“I came from the greatest family ever. I don’t know what to say, I’m in shock,” Tracy said in a statement to NBC News.
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