2026年6月9日 美国东部时间上午10:22 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
被控杀害父亲、传奇电影导演罗布·莱纳与母亲的尼克·莱纳，正从父母为其设立的信托基金中索要未支付的款项，称他需要这笔钱来为自己辩护。
这名32岁男子的民事律师周一向洛杉矶县法院提交请愿书称，管理该基金的受托人毫无法律依据地拒绝了他们的请求，而他现在需要且理应拿到这笔钱。
“尼克深爱父母，对他们的离世悲痛欲绝。但在这场信托诉讼中，父母遭遇了什么、未遭遇什么的事实并非争议焦点，”请愿书中写道。“如同所有被控犯罪的人一样，尼克被推定无罪，他有权动用合法属于自己的资源来进行辩护。”
请愿书称，该信托基金至少拥有150万美元资产，但负责该基金的律师不愿透露其确切价值。
这位好莱坞知名导演罗布·莱纳与妻子、摄影师兼制片人米歇尔·辛格·莱纳于12月14日在洛杉矶高档社区布伦特伍德的家中被刺身亡。尼克·莱纳在数小时后被捕，此后对两项谋杀指控均不认罪。
尼克·莱纳于2026年2月23日在洛杉矶县高等法院出庭受审时，与副公设辩护人金伯利·格林一同现身。克里斯·托雷斯/ pooled/盖蒂图片社
莱纳曾聘请知名私人律师艾伦·杰克逊为其辩护，但不到一个月后，杰克逊就以不便透露的理由退出了该案。新提交的文件显示，莱纳的兄弟姐妹杰克和罗米·莱纳最初同意为杰克逊支付律师费，但后来改变了主意。
在随请愿书提交的一份声明中，杰克逊表示“我的律所随时准备、愿意且能够恢复对莱纳先生的代理”，只要基金能够获批使用。
文件称，除了存在争议的莱纳家族大额信托基金外，罗布和米歇尔·莱纳还为尼克·莱纳及其兄弟姐妹设立了小型个人信托基金。文件称，他们在1993年设立的尼克·莱纳的信托基金中留下了“明确指示”：尼克在30岁时可获得一半资金，35岁时获得剩余部分。
但文件称，莱纳从未收到他在30岁时应得的资金，而自2月起负责管理该基金的律师保罗·R·卡宁以“一系列不断变化的借口和理由”拒绝支付这笔钱，其中包括对莱纳行为能力的担忧，但这与强制性支付毫无关系。
莱纳表示，他还应该立即获得本应在35岁时领取的资金，因为他的辩护以及在狱中基本生活必需品的需求都需要这笔钱。
卡宁未立即回复记者在非工作时间发来的置评邮件。
莱纳的谋杀案审理进展缓慢。他定于9月再次出庭参加预审听证会。他可能面临死刑，但地区检察官内森·霍克曼表示，其办公室尚未决定是否寻求死刑判决。
当局未透露任何可能的作案动机，该案双方几乎都没有泄露任何信息。法院命令将大部分尸检细节保密。关于这起谋杀案的许多最基本问题仍未对外公开。
在退出该案的当天，杰克逊在法庭外表态坚定：“根据加州法律，尼克·莱纳无罪。”
今年4月，杰克·莱纳首次详细讲述了失去父母、兄长成为案件核心的经历，称这是一场“无法理解的活噩梦”。
罗布·莱纳是一位多产导演，其作品涵盖了20世纪80年代和90年代最令人难忘、百看不厌的电影。他的代表作包括《摇滚万万岁》《伴我同行》《好人寥寥》和《当哈利遇上莎莉》，他正是在拍摄《当哈利遇上莎莉》期间结识了摄影师米歇尔·辛格。两人不久后结婚，共度了36年婚姻时光。
Rob Reiner’s son Nick seeks $1.5 million from trust fund for defense in parents’ killings
June 9, 2026 10:22 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his father, legendary film director Rob Reiner, and his mother, is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense.
The 32-year-old’s civil attorneys filed a petition in a Los Angeles County court on Monday saying trustees overseeing the funds have denied them without legal justification, and he needs and should get them now.
“Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths. But the facts about what did and did not happen to them are not at issue in this Trust litigation,” the petition says. “Like anyone accused of a crime, Nick is presumed innocent, and he is entitled to mount his defense with the resources that are lawfully his own.”
The petition says the trust has at least $1.5 million in assets, but that the attorney in charge of the fund will not share the exact amount of its value.
The director and Hollywood luminary Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, were stabbed to death in their home in the upscale Brentwood section of Los Angeles on Dec. 14. Nick Reiner was arrested hours later and has since pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.
Nick Reiner appears with Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene during his arraignment in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Feb. 23, 2026, in Los Angeles. Chris Torres/Pool/Getty Images
Reiner retained high-profile private lawyer Alan Jackson to represent him, but less than a month later Jackson left the case for reasons he said he couldn’t share. The new filing reveals that Reiner’s siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner, had initially agreed to pay for Jackson, but reversed course.
In a declaration included with the petition, Jackson said “my firm stands ready, willing, and able to resume representation of Mr. Reiner” if the funds become available.
The filing says that apart from the larger Reiner family trust, which is not at issue, Rob and Michele Reiner established smaller individual trusts for Nick Reiner and his siblings. It says they left “unambiguous instructions” in Nick Reiner’s trust, established in 1993, that he was to receive half its money when he turned 30 and the rest at 35.
But, the filing says, Reiner never received the funds he was entitled to at 30, and that the trustee overseeing them since February — attorney Paul R. Kanin — has given “a shifting series of excuses and justifications” to deny Reiner the money, including concerns about Reiner’s competence that have no bearing on a payout that is mandatory.
Reiner says he should also get the money he was to receive at 35 immediately because his defense and his need for basic necessities in jail require it.
Kanin did not immediately respond to an after-hours email seeking comment.
Proceedings in Reiner’s murder case are moving slowly. He is scheduled to return to court for a pretrial hearing in September. He is eligible for the death penalty, but District Attorney Nathan Hochman has said his office has not yet decided whether to seek it.
Authorities have said nothing about possible motives, and leaks in the case have been virtually nonexistent on both sides. A court order has kept most details of the autopsy secret. Many of the most basic questions about the killing remain unanswered publicly.
On the day he left the case, Jackson, speaking outside court, declared adamantly that “pursuant to the laws of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.”
In April, Jake Reiner gave his first detailed account of the experience of losing his parents and having his brother at the center of it, calling it “a living nightmare” that is “too devastating to comprehend.”
Rob Reiner was a prolific director whose work included some of the most memorable and endlessly watchable movies of the 1980s and ’90s. His credits included “This is Spinal Tap,” “Stand By Me,” “A Few Good Men” and “When Harry Met Sally… ,” during the production of which he met photographer Michele Singer. They wed soon after and were married for 36 years.
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