{"id":67013,"date":"2025-07-16T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:53:10","slug":"american-idol-executive-robin-kaye-and-husband-found-dead-in-la-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67013\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;American Idol&#8217; executive Robin Kaye and husband found dead in LA home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d music supervisor and her husband were both found dead in their Los Angeles home Monday afternoon.Officers were conducting a welfare check at a home in the Encino neighborhood when they found the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds.An \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d spokesperson confirmed the deaths of Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, both 70. The couple owned their home, according to public records.\u201cRobin has been a cornerstone of the Idol family since 2009 and was truly loved and respected by all who came in contact with her,\u201d an \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cRobin will remain in our hearts forever and we share our deepest sympathy with her family and friends during this difficult time.\u201dLos Angeles police said Tuesday afternoon they arrested 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian in connection with the couple\u2019s deaths.Boodarian was allegedly burglarizing their home while the couple was away July 10. He is accused of shooting and killing Kaye and her husband when they returned and then fleeing on foot. Boodarian has not yet been assigned a public defender and could not be reached for comment.Police responded that same afternoon to reports of a burglary at the Encino home, but said in a press release there were \u201cno signs of forced entry or trouble.\u201dKaye, an industry veteran, has also worked in the music departments of several other productions such as \u201cThe Singing Bee,\u201d &#8220;Hollywood Game Night,&#8221; \u201cLip Sync Battle,\u201d and several Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">LOS ANGELES \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d music supervisor and her husband were both found dead in their Los Angeles home Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were conducting a welfare check at a home in the Encino neighborhood when they found the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d spokesperson confirmed the deaths of Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, both 70. The couple owned their home, according to public records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobin has been a cornerstone of the Idol family since 2009 and was truly loved and respected by all who came in contact with her,\u201d an \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cRobin will remain in our hearts forever and we share our deepest sympathy with her family and friends during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police said Tuesday afternoon they arrested 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian in connection with the couple\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Boodarian was allegedly burglarizing their home while the couple was away July 10. He is accused of shooting and killing Kaye and her husband when they returned and then fleeing on foot. Boodarian has not yet been assigned a public defender and could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded that same afternoon to reports of a burglary at the Encino home, but said in a press release there were \u201cno signs of forced entry or trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaye, an industry veteran, has also worked in the music departments of several other productions such as \u201cThe Singing Bee,\u201d &#8220;Hollywood Game Night,&#8221; \u201cLip Sync Battle,\u201d and several Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d music supervisor and her husband were both found dead in their Los Angeles home Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[47417,35786,1582,276,10756,4446,40047,47420,7131,47430,10771,47423,316,9224,47428,47429,2961,47431,4530,47424,224,5337,2089,47426,47425,47422,21683,47421,47418,47432,27184,47427,47419,22731,11459],"class_list":{"0":"post-67013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-american-idol","9":"tag-burglary","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-couple","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-dhnd","15":"tag-encino-neighborhood","16":"tag-entry","17":"tag-executive-robin-kaye","18":"tag-gunshot-wounds","19":"tag-hollywood-game-night","20":"tag-home","21":"tag-husband","22":"tag-idol-family","23":"tag-industry-veteran","24":"tag-la","25":"tag-la-home","26":"tag-lapd","27":"tag-lip-sync-battle","28":"tag-los-angeles","29":"tag-losangeles","30":"tag-man","31":"tag-miss-universe","32":"tag-miss-usa","33":"tag-music-supervisor","34":"tag-public-records","35":"tag-raymond-boodarian","36":"tag-robin-kaye","37":"tag-same-afternoon","38":"tag-spokesperson","39":"tag-the-singing-bee","40":"tag-thomas-deluca","41":"tag-welfare-check","42":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}