Jamie Lee Curtis shares final memories of Rob and Michele Reiner in emotional tribute
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about her final memories of Rob and Michele Reiner, becoming emotional as she recalled the couple who were killed on December 14, 2025.
Curtis also remembered their final trip together and her last text exchange with Michele.
Jamie Lee Curtis remembers her final visit with Rob and Michele Reiner
Curtis recalled that her final trip with the Reiners was to Stonehenge last August while her husband, Christopher Guest, and Rob were filming the concert film 'Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale.' During the trip, she took photographs of the families, including Rob and Michele, Robbie and Michele, and Guest.
“I took some beautiful photographs of families and Rob and Michele, particularly Robbie and Michele and my husband,” she told Entertainment Tonight. After returning home, Curtis had large framed prints made of Stonehenge and the family photographs.
She said she last saw the couple when she went to their house without her husband to deliver the pictures. During the visit, Rob and Michele discussed plans to gather a group of creatives for a project resisting the current political climate.
Curtis said she was ready to join them and help however she could. Curtis and Guest had been friends with the Reiners for decades, and Guest was also a longtime collaborator of Rob’s; she later led a tribute to him at the 2026 Emmy Awards.
“He was generous and kind and funny as hell,” Curtis said during the ceremony, her voice cracking. “We all miss Rob, and Michele, and all that we lost this year.”
Nick Reiner’s legal battle over Reiner family trust
Nick Reiner, the younger son of Rob and Michele, is currently facing first-degree murder charges for their slayings. He has been in custody since December 2025 and has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder with special circumstances.
Prosecutors recently announced that Nick would not face the death penalty if convicted. He instead faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole and is due back in criminal court October 7.
Meanwhile, new court filings obtained by PEOPLE claimed that Nick has not been able to access money from his family trust to cover basic needs or private legal defense. His attorneys Anita P Wu and Geoffrey A Neri wrote that he had not been able to access “even $5” from the trust to buy basic subsistence items from the jail commissary.
The filings responded to objections from trustee Jodi Pais Montgomery and former trustee Paul R Kanin, who have opposed Nick’s request to access the fund. Their previous court papers cited California’s “slayer statute,” which states that a person cannot inherit money or property from people they “feloniously and intentionally” kill.
The trust, established by Rob and Michele, is worth more than $1.5 million. Nick’s attorneys have argued that the slayer statute does not apply because he has not been convicted.
