Los Angeles police are investigating an obvious murder on the Brentwood residence of Rob Reiner, the place two individuals had been discovered lifeless Sunday afternoon.
The our bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 65-year-old girl had been discovered on the residence within the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue, in keeping with Police Capt. Mike Bland.
Regulation enforcement sources informed The Occasions {that a} member of the family was being questioned in reference to the dying. .
The sources, who weren’t licensed to talk publicly in regards to the ongoing investigation, confirmed that there was no signal of pressured entry into the house. The names of the victims haven’t been launched.
Margaret Stewart, a Los Angeles Hearth Division spokesman, mentioned the division was known as to the residence round 3:30 p.m. for medical help. Inside the house, fireplace personnel found the our bodies of the person and girl.
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 struggle to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. He’s additionally been energetic in kids’s points by way of the years, having led the marketing campaign to cross Proposition 10, the California Youngsters and Households Initiative, which created an formidable program of early childhood improvement companies.
Proposition 10 was thought-about 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 over the past 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 have a look at Christian nationalism within the U.S.
By Sunday night, regulation enforcement had swarmed Reiner’s sprawling property in Brentwood, although an eerie quiet hung over Chadbourne Avenue, which had been sealed from the general public with yellow crime scene tape.
Police automobiles had been stationed at both ends of the block the place the Reiner residence is situated whereas a chopper circled overhead.
Officers spoke to a younger man inside the sealed off space, who left the scene round 7:30 p.m. in a white Tesla and declined to talk to the media.
Councilmember Traci Park, whose Westside district contains Brentwood, mentioned in an announcement that the LAPD had elevated patrols within the neighborhood “out of an abundance of warning.”
“As we proceed to attend for extra updates, I wish to specific my profound concern and disappointment 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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Occasions employees author David Zahniser contributed to this report.
