‘What the hell do you say?’: elder son of Rob Reiner speaks out on parents’ murders

Jake Reiner calls parents ‘center’ of his life and says brother being at ‘center’ of loss is ‘almost too impossible to process’

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The elder son of beloved director https://www.theguardian.com/film/rob-reiner">Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, eulogized his parents, who were “the center” of his life, in a Substack essay https://jakereiner.substack.com/p/mom-and-dad">published Friday, four months after the pair were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/who-is-nick-rob-reiner-son">Nick Reiner, the couple’s younger son, who long struggled with drug addiction and mental illness, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to their deaths, to which he has https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/23/nick-reiner-parents-killings-court?cl33r">pleaded not guilty.