Watch: Jake Reiner Details Learning Parents Rob Reiner, Michele Reiner DiedJake Reiner understands those who are invested in the details surrounding his parents' tragic December deaths. But to the 34-year-old, it's not a gripping much-watch drama, just an unfathomable reality. One that began on Dec. 14 when younger sister Romy Reiner called to tell him that their father, legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner, was dead. "Minutes later, she called back," he detailed in an April 24 Substack post, to let him know their mother Michele Singer Reiner had been killed as well.