Rob Reiner’s son Jake breaks silence on parents’ deaths

LOS ANGELES – The eldest child of Rob and Michele Reiner wrote in an online post Friday that he is still in a “living nightmare” following the deaths of his parents, allegedly at the hands of his brother Nick, in the family’s Brentwood home.

“My world, as I knew it, had collapsed. I was in a trance,” Jake Reiner posted on Substack, describing the day he found out his parents had been killed. “The only thing I could focus on was that I needed to get to my childhood home. I needed to get to my sister. I needed to figure out what the hell just happened.”

ADDITION ADDS MAIDEN NAME: FILE – Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner arrive on the red carpet at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, Dec. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Jake Reiner said he was at Union Station attending a celebration of life for a close friend on Dec. 14, 2025, when his 29-year-old sister Romy called to tell him his father was dead.

“Minutes later, she called back telling me our mother was also dead,” the 34-year-old wrote.

Nick Reiner pleads not guilty

Nick Reiner, 32, who remains jailed without bail, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charges against him. He is set to return to court Wednesday, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for him to stand trial.

Nick Reiner was charged Dec. 16 with two counts of murder in connection with the slayings of his 78-year-old father and 70-year-old mother, who were found dead about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the couple’s Brentwood home in the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue between Sunset and San Vicente boulevards.

Possible death sentence

The murder charges include the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders, opening him to a possible death sentence if prosecutors choose to pursue capital punishment. He is also facing an allegation that he personally used a deadly weapon — a knife.

The LA County Office of Medical Examiner classified the couple’s deaths as homicides, with both dying from “multiple sharp force injuries.”

The death certificates noted they were killed “with knife, by another.”

Nick Reiner was arrested by Los Angeles police in the Exposition Park area near USC less than six hours after his parents’ bodies were discovered. He remains behind bars without bail.

‘Breaks my heart and enrages me’

“I was robbed of so many things that day,” Jake Reiner wrote in his Substack essay, which was accompanied by a photo of his parents holding him when he was a baby. “My parents won’t be at my wedding, they won’t get to hold their future grandchild, and they won’t get to see me have the successful career I’m still seeking. It simultaneously breaks my heart and enrages me.”

He said nothing can prepare someone for losing both parents at the same time.

“It’s too devastating to comprehend,” he wrote. “I still wake up every morning having to convince myself that, no, it’s not a dream. This truly is my living nightmare.”

Rob Reiner was best known for his iconic role as Archie Bunker’s liberal son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic on the classic sitcom “All in the Family” — a role for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards, along with being the director of films including “Stand By Me,” “The Princess Bride,” “A Few Good Men,” “Misery,” “This Is Spinal Tap” and “When Harry Met Sally.”

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According to multiple reports, the couple’s 28-year-old daughter discovered her father’s body. One report suggested that a massage therapist had shown up at the couple’s home for a pre-scheduled appointment but got no answer at the door and contacted their daughter, who went inside the home and found Rob Reiner slain. She contacted authorities, who subsequently found Michele Reiner’s body in the house.

Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party

Rob and Michele Reiner, along with Nick, attended talk-show host Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party the night before, and sources said Rob Reiner and his son got into a heated argument over his son’s odd behavior at the event.

Rob and Michele Reiner wound up leaving the event, but it was unclear when Nick Reiner left. TMZ reported that Nick Reiner checked into a Santa Monica hotel around 4 a.m. the next day, and that blood was later found in the room.

It was reported in December that Nick Reiner had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was taking medications that made him “erratic and dangerous.” (CNS)

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