The boomer-millennial war was supposed to stay online.
It was meant to be a safe, stupid argument about avocado toast and home equity, memes about “OK boomer” and lectures about grit—not a double homicide in Brentwood and a son accused of killing the parents whose fortune was supposed to set him up for life.
In Los Angeles, that abstract generational fight now exists as a crime scene and a court petition. Rob Reiner, the boomer director who turned This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally… into one of Hollywood’s most durable careers, left behind an estate widely estimated at around $200 million when he and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, were stabbed to death in their home on Dec. 14. Their 32‑year‑old son Nick was arrested hours later and has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder; prosecutors say the case is eligible for the death penalty, though the district attorney has not yet decided whether to seek it…