Director Rob Reiner And His Wife Found Dead In Their Brentwood, CA Home

[Mesarthim]

'This Is Spinal Tap', Etc. Director Rob Reiner And His Wife Found Dead In Their Brentwood, CA Home
Dec 14th, 2025 - 10:20pm


Rob Reiner, the veteran/director/actor, etc. who helmed the 1984 rock n’ roll mockumentary ‘This Is Spinal Tap‘, and this year’s sequel ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues‘, was been found dead with his wife Michele in their Brentwood, CA home today, December 14th. TMZ report that the LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Division is currently investigating the matter. Citing unnamed sources, TMZ also noted that of the wounds the couple suffered were consistent with a knife.

Outside of his highly influential work in the rock and metal scene with the ‘Spinal Tap‘ series, the 78-year-old Reiner found success both in front and behind the camera, including directing classics like “Stand By Me‘, ‘The Princess Bride‘ and ‘When Harry Met Sally…’ and numerous others. This year also saw Reiner film an as-yet ‘live’ concert film for Spinal Tap at Stonehenge that was scheduled to be released in 2026.

[zim]

saw some reports that it was their son

[Corpsepyre]

Pretty fucking awful. He was such a good director.

[Svartmetall]

Awful news. I fell into a bit of a YT doomscroll loop last night and watched a really good reaction to 'Princess Bride', and so to then wake up this morning and read this...gah.

[User]

rob reiner was a great director, and this one son turned out to be quite the douchebag

[Noyka]

Yeah Reiner was an icon and had friends of all political backgrounds as most folks do

I was appalled bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea had the gall to call him bad for America after his death. It is fine to not personally like someone but never disrespect the dead especially victims if violence.