Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Heartbreak Over Friends Rob and Michele Reiner's Death on Daughter Annie's Birthday
Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Heartbreak Over Friends Rob and Michele Reiner's Death on Daughter Annie's Birthday
Tommy McArdleThu, April 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM UTC
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Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter Annie on Oct. 12, 0222; Michele Reiner and Rob ReinerCredit: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty; Jim Spellman/WireImage -
Jamie Lee Curtis grew emotional when she revealed that her oldest daughter Annie welcomed her first baby in December, days after their family's close friends Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were killed
Curtis is married to Christopher Guest, a close collaborator of Rob Reiner's; Curtis said Rob and Michele were godparents to Annie
Rob and Michele's son Nick was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with his parents' deaths
Jamie Lee Curtis was especially close with Rob and Michele Reiner, who were godparents to her daughter Annie. While appearing on the most recent episode of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson's podcast IMO, the Oscar winner became emotional when discussing how her friends were killed on Annie's birthday.
During the interview, the Freakier Friday actress, 67, who's married to Christopher Guest, revealed that her older daughter Annie, 39, welcomed a baby back in December, a week after the Reiner deaths.
"Their baby boy was born in December, and it was a week after Rob and Michele [died], and Rob and Michele are her godparents,” Curtis said through tears. “They died on her birthday. My beautiful daughter, who loved them as we all did, managed to be able to metabolize that grief and sadness … [and then] brought their son into this world a week later."
Rob and Michele were were found dead inside their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. The couple's son Nick, 32, was arrested that same night and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with their deaths.
On the podcast, Curtis described the series of events for her family in December as "life on life's harshest terms and life on life's most beautiful, perfect terms."
Jamie Lee Curtis and Annie Guest on Oct. 11, 2022Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Curtis and Guest, who have been married since 1984, share daughters Annie and Ruby. As Curtis revealed on Instagram in 2019, her family hosted Annie's wedding to husband Jason Wolf at their home in Los Angeles. (The couple's younger daughter Ruby also got married to her partner Kynthia at Curtis and Guests' home; Curtis officiated the 2022 ceremony.)
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Curtis' husband Guest famously worked with Rob on his impactful 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. The pair reunited for a sequel to the cult comedy, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which released in September 2025, just months before the filmmaker's death.
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Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner on March 30, 2019Credit: Amanda Edwards/WireImage
In the immediate aftermath of Rob and Michele's deaths in December, Curtis told PEOPLE in a statement that she and her husband were "numb and sad and shocked about the violent, tragic deaths of our dear friends."
"Our ONLY focus and care right now is for their children and immediate families and we will offer all support possible to help them,” she wrote at the time.
In addition to Nick, who remains incarcerated more than three months after his parents' deaths, Rob and Michele shared son Jake, 34, and daughter Romy, 28. Rob was also a father to daughter Tracy, whom he adopted during his first marriage to Penny Marshall.
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