{"id":189380,"date":"2025-12-18T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:53:07","slug":"rob-reiner-and-wife-micheles-cause-of-death-confirmed-as-children-break-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189380\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Reiner and wife Michele\u2019s cause of death confirmed as children break silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWords cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren\u2019t just our parents; they were our best friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and support we have received not only from family and friends but from people of all walks of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave,\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times, Romy found her father dead after receiving a call from her parents\u2019 massage therapist informing her the couple were not responding.<\/p>\n

The source said Romy told responding officers her middle brother also lived on the property in a guesthouse.<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner appeared<\/a> in the Los Angeles Superior Court today but did not make any pleas in relation to the charges, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n

His lawyer Alan Jackson told reporters outside the court the murders were \u201ca devastating tragedy\u201d for the Reiner family, requesting media not to \u201crush with judgment\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case. These need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked at and analysed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted, though the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office said the \u201cthoughts and desires of the family\u201d will be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n

Rob was a celebrated Hollywood director, helming classics such as 1987\u2019s The Princess Bride and 1984\u2019s This is Spinal Tap, while Michele was a photographer and producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWords cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day,\u201d they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,95,806,1558,3390,27126,46300,25346,1061,2223,634,156,1445,11551,2225,116652,118642,111,139,69,1118,116559,117643,13181,77461,11165,4625,165,1842],"class_list":["post-189380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-and","tag-as","tag-been","tag-best","tag-break","tag-broke","tag-cause","tag-children","tag-confirmed","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-friends","tag-hours","tag-loss","tag-michele","tag-micheles","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-reiner","tag-reiners","tag-released","tag-rob","tag-silence","tag-singer","tag-their","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}