2 found dead at Rob Reiner's house; possibly Rob and his wife

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a horrible ending.

But so many of these Hollywood royalty types have very difficult and troubled children. Brentwood and Pacific Palisades may be the worst places on Earth to have a family.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nick had 17 stays in rehab. Severely mentally ill and needed more than rehab support/interventions.

Why is rehab so ineffective? This isn't a matter of money or access. I have a brother like this too, I don't trust him and just hope he doesn't rage out like this some day.

Neurological wiring and brain chemistry can be difficult to treat and manage. Often, these individuals also have a diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

I agree with this. I think we haven't really figured out how to treat these mental illnesses effectively at all yet. There is a lot to be done in this area.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the sleaziest lawyer in Southern California has taken on Nick Reiner as a client - Alan Jackson of Kevin Spacey and Karen Read infamy.

Yes everyone deserves defense counsel - but Jackson seems to go out of his way to rep the worst of the worst.

If Nick had an ounce of decency in him he would plead guilty and accept his sentence. But if he had an ounce of decency in him he wouldn’t have slaughtered his elderly parents. He will probably spend the next couple of years whinging about what awful parents they were and how they drove him to it and maybe he’ll even paint some ugly picture that it was self defense. If he keeps Jackson on as counsel, that’s a likely road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a horrible ending.

But so many of these Hollywood royalty types have very difficult and troubled children. Brentwood and Pacific Palisades may be the worst places on Earth to have a family.

+1000

You just hear about it because they are celebrities. The regular folks have these kids but nobody cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the sleaziest lawyer in Southern California has taken on Nick Reiner as a client - Alan Jackson of Kevin Spacey and Karen Read infamy.

Yes everyone deserves defense counsel - but Jackson seems to go out of his way to rep the worst of the worst.

If Nick had an ounce of decency in him he would plead guilty and accept his sentence. But if he had an ounce of decency in him he wouldn’t have slaughtered his elderly parents. He will probably spend the next couple of years whinging about what awful parents they were and how they drove him to it and maybe he’ll even paint some ugly picture that it was self defense. If he keeps Jackson on as counsel, that’s a likely road.

Look at the Menendez brothers. Ounce of decency left in a cold-blooded murderer? You sound naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18:06 poster here

When mentally ill family members are in a mania or psychosis there is not much that the other family members can do.

It is legal to have untreated mental illness in the US.

The U.S. movement in the 50s-80s of “deinstitutionalization” has been a massive failure.

Mental institutions should have been reformed; not eliminated as they largely have been.

This 100%. I have a close friend with a schizophrenic daughter. She committed a crime and has been in jail first then a hospital. Her stay is close to coming to an end after 2 years. She is still incredibly sick. When asked what the next step is - the hospital says she can go to a women's shelter or home (where the family is at risk). That is it, those are the options. Homeless or putting your family at risk.

If I were the Reiners, I would also have had my very sick adult child living with me in my ADU rather than have them homeless in LA. I feel so sad for them and their remaining children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His addiction needed to be addressed at 15. It is much harder the older you are to treat.

As an aside, there may be a bit of neglect that he was already addicted at such a young age.

I want to address this briefly, because I’m a professional who has had really exyensive experience with addicts as a victim advocate, public defender, prosecutor and even legal aid attorney working with clients with major challenges.

I also come from a family with the addiction gene which devastated the lives of some of my siblings.

I had a cholecystectomy a little over a decade ago and was prescribed Percocet to manage the more acute pain I might have in the aftermath. I took it daily because I basically went right back to work in a demanding job (prosecutor/county attorney) and I would do mornings at the office on ibuprofen then afternoons at my home office on Percocet.

The prescription was short term, maybe two weeks worth? And the day I ran out and went cold turkey from Percocet, I crashed off a cliff. I had never experienced such awfulness in my head in my life, it was something many degrees worse than major clinical depression which had at times given me suicidal ideation.

The brain becomes dependent on opiods in about 4 days time, and for people who have the addiction gene, it can be profoundly disabling to take opiods and then to try suddenly to not take opiods. Add into the mix the hormonal volatility of the teenaged brain and you have a recipe for absolute disaster.

Teenagers have secrets - yours probably do too, much as you want to think otherwise. It doesn’t require neglectful parenting for the right (or wrong) kid to rapidly become addicted to opiods they tried at a party with friends, most of whom could use casually and walk away. It sounds like Nick Reiner had one of those extremely vulnerable brains which met a force that is extremely destructive. And it sounds like his very loving parents spent nearly 20 years trying to help him get well. I don’t think they deserve to be blamed for his addiction, nor for his murdering them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the sleaziest lawyer in Southern California has taken on Nick Reiner as a client - Alan Jackson of Kevin Spacey and Karen Read infamy.

Yes everyone deserves defense counsel - but Jackson seems to go out of his way to rep the worst of the worst.

If Nick had an ounce of decency in him he would plead guilty and accept his sentence. But if he had an ounce of decency in him he wouldn’t have slaughtered his elderly parents. He will probably spend the next couple of years whinging about what awful parents they were and how they drove him to it and maybe he’ll even paint some ugly picture that it was self defense. If he keeps Jackson on as counsel, that’s a likely road.

Who pays for this? As one of the other siblings I would fight tooth and nail to make sure none of the estate went to paying his legal bills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is for this kid to enter rehab at 15 he was using drugs at 14 or even earlier. Most kids wouldn’t have money to buy them. Most parents know what their kids are up to at that age. The result may be the same if he started using at 18 but addiction is much worse the younger one starts.

Sounds like a case of someone with the means to afford rehab being allowed to go that option instead of jail time.

Jails and prisons are not the place to recover from addiction. My ex-BIL's drug problem got worse since drugs are rampant in prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the sleaziest lawyer in Southern California has taken on Nick Reiner as a client - Alan Jackson of Kevin Spacey and Karen Read infamy.

Yes everyone deserves defense counsel - but Jackson seems to go out of his way to rep the worst of the worst.

If Nick had an ounce of decency in him he would plead guilty and accept his sentence. But if he had an ounce of decency in him he wouldn’t have slaughtered his elderly parents. He will probably spend the next couple of years whinging about what awful parents they were and how they drove him to it and maybe he’ll even paint some ugly picture that it was self defense. If he keeps Jackson on as counsel, that’s a likely road.

Who pays for this? As one of the other siblings I would fight tooth and nail to make sure none of the estate went to paying his legal bills.

Sometimes lawyers like Jackson will take high profile cases just for the abundant free publicity it affords them, which then turns into lots of paid business.

I’m not familiar with the laws in regards to California but some jurisdictions do prohibit inheriting from the estate if you are the party who caused the death of the decedent(s).

[Anonymous]

Obamas Had Plans to See the Reiners the Day They Were Found Deadhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/michelle-obama-rob-reiner-michele.html

Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had plans to see the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, on the day they were found dead in their Los Angeles home.

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night,” she told Jimmy Kimmel during an interview on the show. “Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.”

“They are not deranged or crazed,” she said, after President Trump had told reporters earlier Monday that Mr. Reiner was “a deranged person.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a horrible ending.

But so many of these Hollywood royalty types have very difficult and troubled children. Brentwood and Pacific Palisades may be the worst places on Earth to have a family.

+1000

So their other two kids don't count?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obamas Had Plans to See the Reiners the Day They Were Found Deadhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/michelle-obama-rob-reiner-michele.html

Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had plans to see the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, on the day they were found dead in their Los Angeles home.

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night,” she told Jimmy Kimmel during an interview on the show. “Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.”

“They are not deranged or crazed,” she said, after President Trump had told reporters earlier Monday that Mr. Reiner was “a deranged person.”

Well said, Michelle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18:06 poster here

When mentally ill family members are in a mania or psychosis there is not much that the other family members can do.

It is legal to have untreated mental illness in the US.

The U.S. movement in the 50s-80s of “deinstitutionalization” has been a massive failure.

Mental institutions should have been reformed; not eliminated as they largely have been.

This 100%. I have a close friend with a schizophrenic daughter. She committed a crime and has been in jail first then a hospital. Her stay is close to coming to an end after 2 years. She is still incredibly sick. When asked what the next step is - the hospital says she can go to a women's shelter or home (where the family is at risk). That is it, those are the options. Homeless or putting your family at risk.

If I were the Reiners, I would also have had my very sick adult child living with me in my ADU rather than have them homeless in LA. I feel so sad for them and their remaining children.

He HAD returned home to live with them recently - and he used that access to CUT THEIR THROATS.

At what point do parents and siblings have the right to close the door? Apparently in your universe, when the lid closes on their coffins.

I feel so sorry for the Reiners - not just that they were brutally murdered by their own son, but because of the hell they’ve lived through trying to parent him the last 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His addiction needed to be addressed at 15. It is much harder the older you are to treat.

As an aside, there may be a bit of neglect that he was already addicted at such a young age.

I want to address this briefly, because I’m a professional who has had really exyensive experience with addicts as a victim advocate, public defender, prosecutor and even legal aid attorney working with clients with major challenges.

I also come from a family with the addiction gene which devastated the lives of some of my siblings.

I had a cholecystectomy a little over a decade ago and was prescribed Percocet to manage the more acute pain I might have in the aftermath. I took it daily because I basically went right back to work in a demanding job (prosecutor/county attorney) and I would do mornings at the office on ibuprofen then afternoons at my home office on Percocet.

The prescription was short term, maybe two weeks worth? And the day I ran out and went cold turkey from Percocet, I crashed off a cliff. I had never experienced such awfulness in my head in my life, it was something many degrees worse than major clinical depression which had at times given me suicidal ideation.

The brain becomes dependent on opiods in about 4 days time, and for people who have the addiction gene, it can be profoundly disabling to take opiods and then to try suddenly to not take opiods. Add into the mix the hormonal volatility of the teenaged brain and you have a recipe for absolute disaster.

Teenagers have secrets - yours probably do too, much as you want to think otherwise. It doesn’t require neglectful parenting for the right (or wrong) kid to rapidly become addicted to opiods they tried at a party with friends, most of whom could use casually and walk away. It sounds like Nick Reiner had one of those extremely vulnerable brains which met a force that is extremely destructive. And it sounds like his very loving parents spent nearly 20 years trying to help him get well. I don’t think they deserve to be blamed for his addiction, nor for his murdering them.

Thank you for sharing this. Is there scientific evidence of an addiction gene?