Paul McCartney Grieves ‘Heartbreaking’ Loss of Rob Reiner: ‘Thanks for All the Humour, Rob’
Paul McCartney is mourning Rob Reiner following the jarring death of the director and his wife over the weekend.
One day after Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home, the Beatles rocker shared a photo of himself with the filmmaker on the set of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Monday (Dec. 15) on Instagram. “What a tragedy the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, is,” wrote McCartney, who guest starred in the 2025 Reiner-directed Spinal Tap sequel.
Related
“It is so shocking in many ways but for me especially so, because over the last year I had been working with him,” he continued. “He was such an upbeat, lovable man. Life can be so unfair and this tragedy proves it. His father, Carl Reiner, was a great humourist before him and Rob followed in his dad’s footsteps doing a terrific job making many great films. I will always have fond memories of Rob and the idea that he and his wife will no longer be in the world with us is heartbreaking.”
“Thanks for all the humour, Rob,” McCartney added. “Rest in Peace. Love Paul.”
Reiner and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday (Dec. 15) with apparent stab wounds. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has since said that the couple’s 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested on homicide charges, according to Reuters.
In the hours since, social media has been flooded with messages of grief from friends and fans of Reiner, as well as backlash to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump, who’d written that the director was “tortured and struggling” and suggested that he’d died from a “mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
One person who couldn’t believe Trump’s crude remarks was Jack White. “Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much,” the White Stripes guitarist wrote on Instagram in response. “To use someone’s tragic death to promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin. Shame on you trump and anyone who defends this.”
Powered by Billboard.