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Rob Reiner's son arrested after the director and his wife found dead
Filmmaker was 78
LOS ANGELES 鈥 Rob Reiner鈥檚 younger son, Nick Reiner, was in jail Monday after being booked for what investigators believe was the fatal stabbing of the and his wife at their Los Angeles home a day earlier, authorities said.
It was not immediately clear what charges , 32, would face. A police statement said he was being held without bail and the case will be presented to the district attorney's office on Tuesday.
Representatives for the Reiner family did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and it wasn鈥檛 immediately clear if Nick Reiner had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Nick Reiner has spoken publicly of his struggles with addiction. By 18, he had cycled in and out of treatment facilities with bouts of homelessness and relapses in between. Rob and Nick Reiner explored their difficult relationship and Nick Reiner鈥檚 struggles with drugs in a semi-autobiographical 2016 film, 鈥 .鈥
Rob and were found dead Sunday afternoon at their home in Los Angeles, and investigators believe they were stabbed, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official, who was briefed on the investigation, could not publicly discuss the details and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Nick Reiner was arrested Sunday around 9:15 p.m., police said.
Reiner was long one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood, and his work included some of the most memorable movies of the 1980s and 鈥90s, including 鈥淭his is Spinal Tap,鈥 鈥淎 Few Good Men,鈥 鈥淲hen Harry Met Sally鈥 and 鈥淭he Princess Bride.鈥
His role as Michael 鈥淢eathead鈥 Stivic in Norman Lear鈥檚 1970s TV classic 鈥淎ll in the Family鈥 as a liberal foil to Carroll O鈥機onnor鈥檚 Archie Bunker catapulted him to fame and won him two Emmy Awards.
The son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner married photographer Michele Singer Reiner in 1989. The two met while he was directing 鈥淲hen Harry Met Sally.鈥 They had three children together: Nick, Jake and Romy.
Reiner told The New York Times in 1989 that the cinematographer on 鈥淲hen Harry Met Sally,鈥 Barry Sonnenfeld, predicted he would marry her. 鈥淚 look over and I see this girl, and whoo! I was attracted immediately,鈥 Reiner said.
Michele Singer Reiner was a producer for 鈥淪pinal Tap II: The End Continues,鈥 鈥淕od & Country,鈥 鈥淎lbert Brooks: Defending My Life鈥 and 鈥淪hock and Awe,鈥 according to IMDB. Earlier in her career, she photographed the cover image of President Donald Trump's 1987 bestseller 鈥淭he Art of the Deal.鈥
Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner鈥檚 outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director鈥檚 killing, in a social media post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
Relatives of Lear, the , said the Reiners' deaths left them bereft.
鈥淣orman often referred to Rob as a son, and their close relationship was extraordinary, to us and the world,鈥 a Lear family statement said. 鈥淣orman would have wanted to remind us that Rob and Michele spent every breath trying to make this country a better place, and they pursued that through their art, their activism, their philanthropy, and their love for family and friends.鈥
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