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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRob Reiner, wife found dead in home, LAPD investigating as homicide<\/p>\n
Actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead in their Brentwood home. LAPD is investigating as an “apparent homicide.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/story-highlights> Actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in their California home, according to USA TODAY<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Los Angeles Police Department’s robbery-homicide division is investigating, the LAPD said during a press conference Sunday night. Their son, Nick Reiner<\/a>, has been\u00a0taken into police custody and is being held on $4 million bail<\/a>, according to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records viewed by USA TODAY. Their deaths continue to be under\u00a0investigation.<\/p>\n Reiner made a name for himself as an actor in the 1970s sitcom “All in the Family” and went on to direct classic movies like “This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Princess Bride,” among others.<\/p>\n So how much was his net worth? Here’s what to know.<\/p>\n Reiner was worth an estimated $200 million,\u00a0according to Celebrity Net Worth<\/a>, which uses data drawn from public sources as well as information provided by celebrities or their representatives.<\/p>\n Reiner made his directorial debut with the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” (1984) He followed it with hits like “Stand by Me” (1986), “The Princess Bride” (1987), “When Harry Met Sally\u2026” (1989), “Misery” (1990) and “A Few Good Men”\u00a0(1992).<\/p>\n Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Reiner continued directing, with films such as “The American President,” “The Bucket List,” and “Flipped.” His production company company, Castle Rock Entertainment, was behind acclaimed projects such as “Seinfeld” and “The Shawshank Redemption.”<\/p>\n In real estate, Reiner paid $777,500 in 1988 for a 2,701-square-foot home in Beverly Hills that he sold for $1.94 million a decade later. His Brentwood home, purchased for $4.75 million in the 1990s, may be worth $10 million or more today, according to the website.<\/p>\n “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994), famously filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory<\/a> in Mansfield and other locations around Ohio<\/a>, is based on a Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” King sold the rights to that story to Frank Darabont for $1, part of King’s Dollar Babies<\/a> program where he licenses his works to up-and-coming filmmakers for next to nothing.<\/p>\n Darabont, who went on to write and direct “Shawshank,” signed with Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment. The company is named for a fictional town in many of King’s stories and has produced several of King’s film adaptations. And according to CinemaBlend, via Yahoo Entertainment<\/a>, Reiner was asked to direct the film by Tom Cruise when the superstar was being considered for the lead role.<\/p>\n\n
Rob Reiner net worth estimated at $200 million<\/h2>\n
Did Rob Reiner nearly direct ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ filmed in Ohio?<\/h2>\n