Reiner Family Relief

REINER FAMILY RELIEF

Brother and sister thrilled accused killer bro can’t touch dead parents’ cash

A trustee for Nick’s trust fund cited California’s “slayer statute,” which bars killers from financially benefiting from their crimes

The shattered children of butchered star Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, are breathing a deep sigh of relief after a California judge ruled their caged brother Nick cannot use their parents’ money for his legal defense in their killing.

“Nick’s family couldn’t be more thrilled their parents’ cash won’t be used to help him beat the charges for this horrific crime,” an insider snitches. “Almost everyone in the Reiner family have completely washed their hands of him after the heinous murders they’re convinced he committed.”

As The Daily ENQUIRER was among the first to report, 32-year-old Nick pleaded not guilty on Feb. 23 in Los Angeles Superior Court to butchering the celebrated director and his wife in their own bed on Dec. 14.

Michele and Rob were stabbed to death at their home on Dec. 14, 2025

He has been held without bail since being busted wandering the streets of Los Angeles hours after the carnage, which shocked Hollywood and the nation.

Sources say his brother Jake, 35, and sister Romy, 28, have washed their hands of their troubled brother.

Over the years, he’d battled addictions to heroin and cocaine and struggled with mental health issues and was placed in a mental health conservatorship in 2020 that lasted one year.

About a month before Romy found their parents dead, Nick switched his schizophrenia medication after complaining it caused him to gain weight.

Just last month, a Los Angeles County jury indicted Nick on murder charges and then added the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them. The ambushing charge is meant to show the killings were premeditated and makes the troubled drug addict eligible for the death penalty.

Romy and Jake want nothing to do with their troubled brother

The latest trustee for Nick’s $1.5 million trust fund has blocked his request to be able to access the cash to cover his court fees and commissary costs, citing California’s “slayer statute.”

The law prevents criminals from inheriting money or property — including trusts — from a person they “feloniously and intentionally” kill.

But Nick, who has been in and out of drug rehab a shocking 18 times since he was just 14 years old, filed a petition to access the trust fund in June, claiming he has not been convicted of anything yet.

But in another court filing, Lauriann Wright, an attorney for the fiduciary for his siblings, claimed that while Nick only stands accused of his parents’ murder, the release of the money would be an “irreversible” move — and the court agreed.

Nick is scheduled to return to court for a pretrial hearing on Sept. 15.

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