Son arrested in Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and wife Michele's murder probe
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead at their California home.
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THE son of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner was arrested on suspicion of moord and held without bail Monday in the doodsteek of his parents in their Los Angeles home, authorities said.
The case will be given to prosecutors on Tuesday as they consider formal klagtes against 32-year-old Nick Reiner, who was taken into custody hours after Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead at their home on Sunday.
Police haven’t said anything about a motive for the killings.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Nick Reiner had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Rob and Nick Reiner had explored their difficult relationship and Nick Reiner’s struggles with drugs in a semi-autobiographical 2016 film, ” Being Charlie.”
Nick Reiner has spoken publicly of his struggles with verslawing. By 18, he had cycled in and out of treatment facilities with bouts of homelessness and relapses in between.
The bodies were discovered Sunday afternoon at the home in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood, and investigators believe they were stabbed, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
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 ’90s, including “This is Spinal Tap,” “A Few Good Men,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Princess Bride.”
US President Donald Trump drukked his foot in the dinges with his comments about the couple’s murder.
Trump doubled down on his widely-criticised attack, expressing no regret nor offering an apology for comments that even some Republican supporters have since denounced.
“I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump said on 15 December when asked whether he stands by his social media post about Reiner from earlier in the day.
Earlier in the day, Trump responded to Reiner's death in a Truth Social post that said Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, died "reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS."
Hollywood legend Whoopi Goldberg was quick to put Trump on his plek.
On Monday's episode of The View, Goldberg, 70, slammed Trump for his rhetoric after the Reiners' deaths and proclaimed he is not her president.