78-year-old Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were discovered dead at their residence in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on Sunday afternoon. They succumbed to fatal stabbings, which are now being investigated as “apparent homicides,” by the Robbery Homicide Division of the LAPD.Michele Singer, 78, was a professional photographer. She was Rob Reiner’s second wife and the mother of his three children, Jake, Nick, and Romy. During his September 2017 appearance on POLITICO’s Off Message podcast, Rob Reiner shared that his wife shot Donald Trump for the cover of his 1987 autobiography, Trump: The Art of the Deal.According to PEOPLE reports, multiple sources exclusively confirmed that Nick Reiner, 32, killed his parents. Meanwhile, other sources cited that a family member of the Reiners was escorted off the scene by SWAT.“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time,” the Reiner family shared in a recent statement to Variety.The motive behind the double murder remains unknown at the time of writing.All about Rob Reiner’s wifeMichele Singer was not only a photographer but also a producer and actress, who also worked in the camera and electrical departments. Her acting credits include the 1994 movie Mixed Nuts starring Steve Martin. Four years before that, she was the lead photographer for the film, Misery, based on a Stephen King novel.Singer also shot and produced the 2017 movie Shock and Awe and the 2023 HBO documentary Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, both of which were directed by her husband. Michele was also the producer on Wind River: Rising and God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.According to the photographer Barry Sonnenfeld, he was filming Rob Reiner’s 1988 romcom When Harry Met Sally… when the director wanted to give actress Michelle Pfeiffer a call after seeing her on the magazine cover of Premiere.However, Sonnenfeld dismissed Reiner and told him during one of their joint interviews for The Guardian:“You’re not going to call her, you’re going to marry my friend, Michele Singer.”Later, Michele Singer appeared on their movie’s set and convinced Rob Reiner to change its ending. The following year, on May 19, the couple tied the knot.Human Rights Campaign's 2025 Los Angeles Dinner Honoring Ashley Park And Hannah Einbinder - Source: GettyThey were together until their demise on December 14, 2025, and are now survived by their three children.“Originally, Harry and Sally didn’t get together. But then I met Michele, and I thought: Okay, I see how this works,” Reiner later said during an interview with Gulf News in 2018.Eight years ago, Rob Reiner sat down with Isaac Dovere at his Manhattan apartment and spoke about Donald Trump at large. During this conversation, he also shared the time when his wife photographed Trump for his book. Reiner began:“At one point, they were up in this high-rise that he was constructing and they were going to take the picture. It was overlooking Central Park, and the wind was blowing, and he said, ‘I gotta get this hairspray. I need this special hairspray.’”The veteran filmmaker added:“So, they went downstairs to get it, and when they walked down the street, people’d go, ‘Hey Donald, Donald.’ He was always larger than life, and he was always attractive in that charismatic, celebrity way.”During the 2018 Gulf News interview, the vocal Trump critic also joked that his wife had a “lot to atone for,” referring to the magazine cover.Before that, in 2014, Reiner told AARP that his wife was his “best friend” who “helped raise me.”“The thing I talk about, how women show you what’s important, she has done for me,” he added.Besides being husband and wife as well as professional collaborators, Michele Singer and Rob Reiner were also humanitarians. They founded I Am Your Child Foundation in 1997, followed by the nonprofit Parents’ Action for Children in 2004.Rob Reiner is also survived by actress Tracy Reiner, who is his adoptive daughter from his decade-long, first marriage to the late actress Penny Marshall.