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Director and actor Rob Reiner found dead at home with wife Michele Singer Reiner

15 December 2025 09:23 (UTC +04:00)

Rob Reiner, the director of beloved films including When Harry Met Sally, Misery, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and This is Spinal Tap, has died aged 78 in an apparent homicide, along with his 68-year-old wife Michele Singer Reiner, APA reports, citing THE GUARDIAN.

Reports first began to emerge on Sunday afternoon that the bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman had been found by authorities inside a home owned by Reiner in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

A spokesperson for the Reiner family confirmed their deaths on Sunday evening.

“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,” the family spokesperson said in a statement to media. “We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.”

Both TMZ and People reported that the two had suffered wounds consistent with a knife attack. Details about the cause of death have not been officially disclosed yet, but the Los Angeles Police Department detectives from the Robbery Homicide Division were investigating it as an “apparent homicide”, LAPD captain Mike Bland said.

An anonymous Los Angeles Fire Department official confirmed to media that it had responded to a medical aid request Sunday afternoon when the bodies were found.

Reiner had been married to photographer Singer Reiner since 1989. The couple met while he was directing When Harry Met Sally, which he’d made with his friend Nora Ephron after 10 years of being single; inspired by their new romance, Reiner changed the film’s original downbeat ending so Harry and Sally ended up together.

ABC Los Angeles reported Reiner’s friends and peers Billy Crystal and Larry David were seen at the scene after the reports emerged.

Messages to Reiner’s representatives were not immediately returned.