Conan O'Brien broke his silence about the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, after the late director got into an argument with his son Nick Reiner at the comedian's holiday party the night before the murders. "I knew Rob and Michele, and then increasingly got closer and closer to them, and I was seeing them a lot," O'Brien, 62, told David Remnick in an interview for The New Yorker, which was published on Friday, February 20. "My wife and I were seeing them a lot, and they were so - they were just such lovely people.