Los Angeles police are investigating an obvious murder on the Brentwood residence of Rob Reiner, the place two folks had been discovered lifeless Sunday afternoon.
The our bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 65-year-old girl had been discovered the house within the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue, in accordance with Police Capt. Mike Bland.
Regulation enforcement sources confirmed to The Instances that there was no signal of pressured entry into the house.
Margaret Stewart, a Los Angeles Fireplace Division spokesman, stated the division was referred to as to the residence round 3:30 p.m. for medical assist. Inside the house, fireplace personnel found the our bodies of the person and girl.
The property is the house of Reiner, 78, and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner.
The names of the victims haven’t been launched, and few different particulars had been out there.
Rob Reiner and spouse Michele Reiner attend the forty sixth Kennedy Middle Honors gala on the Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts in Washington in December 2023.
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Reiner, 78, has had a five-decade-long profession in Hollywood
Early in his profession he performed Michael “Meathead” Stivic on the long-lasting sitcom “All within the Household” from 1971 to 1979, alongside Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker.
As a director, Reiner helmed a string of hits together with “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Princess Bride” and “This Is Spinal Faucet.” His work took a dramatic flip when he directed the 1986 adaptation of Steven King’s novella “Stand by Me.”
Reiner was lastly nominated for an Academy Award for 1993’s “A Few Good Males,” which starred Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, although the film misplaced to Clint Eastwood’s western “Unforgiven.”
Reiner additionally was a number one political voice in Hollywood.
He was a co-founder of the American Basis for Equal Rights, the group that led the battle to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. He’s additionally been energetic in youngsters’s points via the years, having led the marketing campaign to move Proposition 10, the California Youngsters and Households Initiative, which created an bold program of early childhood growth providers.
Proposition 10 was thought of landmark coverage. Reiner enlisted assist in the hassle from Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, and his personal father, comedy legend Carl Reiner.
Reiner was married to Penny Marshall, star of “Laverne & Shirley,” from 1971 to 1981. He met photographer Michele Singer on the set of “When Harry Met Sally” and the 2 married in 1989, the 12 months the film got here out.
Michele Singer Reiner started producing movies during the last decade, together with “Shock and Awe,” “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life” and “Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues,” all directed by her husband. She additionally produced “God & Nation,” a take a look at Christian nationalism within the U.S.
By Sunday night, legislation enforcement had swarmed Reiner’s sprawling property in Brentwood.
Councilmember Traci Park, whose Westside district contains Brentwood, stated in a press release that the LAPD had elevated patrols within the neighborhood “out of an abundance of warning.”
“As we proceed to attend for extra updates, I need to specific my profound concern and unhappiness on the information popping out of Brentwood,” Park wrote within the assertion. “We’re in shut contact with LAPD because the murder unit continues their investigation.”
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Instances workers writers David Zahniser, Grace Toohey and Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.
