Jake and Romy Reiner, the youngsters of famend Hollywood director Rob Reiner and spouse Michele Singer Reiner, are talking out for the primary time after their brother, Nick Reiner, was arrested for allegedly killing their mother and father.
“Phrases can not even start to explain the unimaginable ache we’re experiencing each second of the day,” Jake and Romy Reiner mentioned in an announcement launched by a household spokesperson on Wednesday. “The horrific and devastating lack of our mother and father, Rob and Michele Reiner, is one thing that nobody ought to ever expertise. They weren’t simply our mother and father; they had been our greatest pals.”
Rob Reiner, Michele Singer, Romy Reiner, Nick Reiner, Maria Gilfillan and Jake Reiner attend the Los Angeles Premiere of ”Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues” at The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, September 9, 2025.
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“We’re grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and help we’ve got obtained not solely from household and pals however individuals from all walks of life,” Jake and Romy Reiner mentioned. “We now ask for respect and privateness, for hypothesis to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our mother and father to be remembered for the unimaginable lives they lived and the love they gave.”
Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner attend Human Rights Marketing campaign’s 2025 Los Angeles Dinner, March 22, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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Nick Reiner, 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, with the particular circumstance of a number of murders, for allegedly stabbing his mother and father to dying on Sunday, in line with prosecutors.
The Reiners’ daughter is the one who discovered her mother and father’ our bodies of their Brentwood house on Sunday, sources informed ABC Information.
Rob Reiner attends the Human Rights Marketing campaign’s 2025 LA Dinner in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025.
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Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who met whereas Rob Reiner was directing “When Harry Met Sally…,” married in 1989 and share three kids: Jake, Nick and Romy. Rob Reiner can be survived by daughter Tracy Reiner together with his first spouse, Penny Marshall.
ABC Information’ Brooke Stangeland contributed to this report.
