Conan O’Brien Threw a Holiday Party to Forget a Bad Year. Then Nick Reiner Arrived.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/conan-obrien-holiday-party-nick-reiner-rob-reiner-1236452447/

33 comments

  1. He probably took him everywhere cause he was scared he would kill him! Fucking psycho.

  2. How does someone check into a hotel if they’re covered in blood? Genuinely stumped

  5. Gotta feel bad for Romy, the daughter who found them murdered.

  6. No new info in the article that I didn’t read on Reddit yesterday

  7. If there’s a trial, I wonder if any of those attendees will be called as witnesses

  9. While it sounds like the party turned awkward, I thought it was nice that the Reiners got to spend time with many of their friends before they were murdered.

  10. This is a real fear for anyone with a mentally ill adult child. I can and have taken our daughter with us places because we did not feel comfortable with her at home. We had one of her brothers come over once to be with her and she did self destructive (but not physically harmful) behavior when he wasn’t watching. This is real for many May families. There is not much help either. It took us a while to get her into a treatment program and I still fear she hasn’t changed much. And we are well off and have insurance for her. If you only have Medicaid there is nothing.

  11. I feel for everyone at that party. You can bet they’re all questioning what they could’ve done differently.  

    I wonder if Nick was always off, even as a child, or if the drug abuse damaged his brain. 

  12. Reddit placing the “All her fault” advert in this thread .. “Someone is guilty. No one is innocent.” I mean, c’mon someone has to oversee the AI ..

  15. How does inheritance work if you kill your parents? Would be fucked up if he was able to use his parents money to hire a lawyer to defend himself against killing his parents.

  16. Tragedy aside, a drug addicted love one embarrassing you at a big party is such a uniquely shitty experience (as is knowing you can’t leave the person on their own because they might do something). My heart breaks for these people on a personal level, they probably felt backed into a corner and unsure what they should do about their son. It feels impossible to turn away a loved one in that state, even when that’s your only choice.

  17. He threw a party and they were there. I don’t like how these articles are presenting this like the party had something to do with it. So dumb.

  18. Bringing him to the party was an interesting choice. If I had lots of money and a creepy, drug-addicted, mentally ill adult child, I might instead hire a couple of security guards to watch over things while we were out. Also rather odd to have a public confrontation with your son at the party when you are an A-list celebrity. Very sad and horrific situation all around. The Reiners were clearly struggling with what to do for a very long time. We have limited options on mental illness care in the U.S., even when you have plenty of money and resources. RIP, Rob and Michele. I wish something could have been done before it was too late for you.

  19. This tragic saga is making me think of the son from the show “task” this year.

    Sometimes you try everything and it isn’t enough to stop something bad from happening

  20. He was picked up at a subway station 15 miles from his parents home. I bet he was looking for a fix.

  22. Just last week the two owners of our local deli were murdered by their son. I thought it was insane, how does a child kill their parents? Then just days later the Reiners were killed in a very similar way by their son.

  23. The NY Times mentions another onlooker who said there was no shouting match. So there is a lot of hearsay around this tragedy. RIP to Rob and Michele Reiner.

    “In fact, the person pointed out, just the night before, the family had attended a Christmas party together. The gathering, at the home of the comedian Conan O’Brien, had been crowded with people in show business and neighborhood friends.

    The Times reported on Monday that Nick Reiner had behaved erratically that evening and had alarmed guests with his behavior, according to two people who attended the party. One of those two guests, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preserve relationships, said Rob Reiner had rebuked his son, telling him that his behavior was inappropriate for a guest in someone else’s home.

    The person close to the family was not in a position to dispute that account, but said that Rob and Nick Reiner did not have a heated argument and that the episode was being overblown. The intensity of any conversation that might have taken place between father and son may have been misinterpreted, the person said.

    He took issue with news accounts that suggested the family might have left the party early because of the son’s behavior. Nick Reiner’s behavior at the party, the person said, was not unusual to the Reiners, who had grown used to it over the years.”

  24. I feel bad for mentally ill people and their families, but what the heck are you gonna do when stuff like this is the result. I have a brother who is an absolute drug addicted wrecking ball. My family (myself included) tried to help him him up until his late 20s and got him all the help he could be given. In the end, it was all pretty useless.

    My parents hung on helping him until my father‘s early death, but I cut strings with my brother and haven’t talked to him for 10 years now. I see on the news when he’s back in jail. You can either continue to be dragged along the back of the horse or you can cut the reins and be free of it and let the horse do whatever the fuck it wants.

    I’m sure the Reiner family felt like my parents, somewhat responsible for their son’s condition and concern at their inability to fix it, but in the end, some kids are just huge assholes and no matter how much you help them. They’re gonna turn out that way because of the way their brain is wired. The people they hurt tend to be family because these are the people that let them get away with their stupid dumb illegal shit. The rest of society is probably safer than their own family is when they start to go crazy.

    It’s OK to cut the reins.

  25. The article basically says Nick came with his parents, who had been formally invited, because they were afraid to leave him home alone. He behaved rudely to other guests and got into a shouting match with Rob, after which all the couple apologized to O’Brien for the trouble and left the party.

    The next confirmed sighting of Nick Reiner was at 4 AM when he checked into a hotel room where staff later found a shower ‘full of blood.’

    Michelle and Rob Reiner’s remains were discovered in their home on Sunday, killed by knife wounds, by their daughter, Romy.

  27. Coco really has nothing to do with it. Tha boys demons have been brewing for a very long time. And holidays are a big time for all those things to come bubbling up.

  30. What a horrible, un winnable situation for the parents. Their adult son is probably high, personality disordered, mentally ill, living with them and basically ruining their elderly years. They’re hoping against hope for some reprieve and they take a gamble and invite him to a special evening out, only for it to turn into a fiasco and result in their murder. Can’t fault the parents for hoping their 32 year old son can one day turn things around. They don’t want to abandon him to the streets again. He won’t do rehab. And they can’t safely have him living at home. And to top it all off, the former president is coming for dinner! Fucking nightmare situation.

  31. Ryan Murphy is excited somewhere bc he gets to create another season of celebrity murder porn for FX.

  32. Everyone is blaming the drugs, but the way he casually was going about his business, buying stuff at the gas station, makes me think the dude may have been sociopath regard less of the drugs.

  33. What a shit headline.

    Sensationalist journalism sucks

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