Slain Hollywood storyteller Rob Reiner recently had a chilling premonition that something awful might happen hours before his troubled son Nick Reiner allegedly slashed his and wife Michele Singer Reiner’s throats in their Los Angeles mansion, and now a battle might be brewing over the couple’s $200million fortune, RadarOnline.com has reported.
Rob Reiner had a premonition
The famed This Is Spinal Tap director shared, “I’m petrified … I think my own son can hurt me,” giving heart-stopping insight into his terror-stricken state of mind, informants confide.
The remark was allegedly made at a holiday bash thrown by former late-night host Conan O’Brien on December 13th, the day before Reiner and 68-year-old Michele’s butchered bodies were discovered at their $13million home.
It has been noted that outlet’s sources said Nick acted so bizarrely at the festive event that O’Brien had to urge fellow guests not to call the cops, and the three Reiners left after the parents argued with their offspring.
Hours later, the beloved Stand by Me filmmaker and his wife of 36 years were found savaged from what officials called “multiple sharp force injuries,” and Nick was slapped with two counts of first-degree murder.
Prior to backing out of the case, the accused killer’s previous lawyer, Alan Jackson, urged against “a rush to judgment,” but sources claimed after the slaughter, Nick left a Santa Monica hotel room stained with blood.
If found guilty of the double murder, Nick, the second-born of Rob and Michele’s three kids, could face up to life in prison or even the death penalty.
Jackson, who previously defended accused sex pests Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein, reportedly charges as much as $2,000 an hour, and sources said that the bill for his services is being footed by the Reiners’ estate.
Sources stated that many in the forgiving family wish to see Nick, who was said to be diagnosed with schizophrenia – institutionalized rather than rotting behind bars, yet others are objecting to having a single penny of the Reiners’ fortune used to defend the adored couple’s alleged executioner.
Nick has a history of cocaine and heroin abuse, has been to rehab 18 times and once lived on the streets in New Jersey, Texas and Maine.
Sources alleged the Being Charlie screenwriter’s doctors fiddled with his mental illness meds in the weeks before the slayings to improve his condition – but those changes rendered him “erratic and dangerous!”
An insider shared: “The reality is he had violent outbursts. The family has been scared of him.”
Another source said: “This is not the first time [Nick] has been violent. I know of another incident a few years back.”
