"On Sunday, when it was reported that the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been stabbed to death at their home in Los Angeles, the news seemed so senseless and baffling, so at odds with Reiner's lovable image, that it didn't properly compute. Who could possibly want to kill Rob Reiner, that big comedic Teddy bear, the closest thing America had to a collective dad?"
"The news was especially jarring because Reiner's relationship with his own famous father had always seemed so enviably affectionate. Reiner was born in 1947, in the Bronx, the oldest child of the comedian Carl Reiner and the actress and singer Estelle Reiner. (Estelle would later achieve cinematic immortality in Reiner's classic film "When Harry Met Sally," as the woman who deadpans, "I'll have what she's having," after Meg Ryan simulates an orgasm at Katz's Deli.) Publicly, the Reiner men made an adorable couple."
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were stabbed to death at their Los Angeles home, a crime described as senseless and baffling. The Reiners' son Nick was later alleged to be responsible for the killings. Rob Reiner cultivated a lovable, fatherly public persona that made the violence especially jarring. Reiner was born in 1947 in the Bronx as the oldest child of comedian Carl Reiner and actress-singer Estelle Reiner. Estelle delivered a famous line in When Harry Met Sally. Carl and Rob publicly displayed deep affection and reenacted The Princess Bride in 2020; Carl died soon after at ninety-eight.
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