Conan O’Brien breaks silence on Rob Reiner murder after explosive fight at Christmas party

Conan O'Brien has finally weighed in on the deaths of friends Rob and Michele Reiner after they famouslyattended his annual Christmas partyin Los Angeles the night beforetheir murders on Dec. 14, 2025.

"It's just so awful," hetold the New Yorkerin a newly published interview.

"And I think about how Rob felt about things that are happening in the country, how involved he was, how much he put himself out there—and to have that voice go quiet in an instant is still hard for me to comprehend."

He also reflected on his relationship with the iconic "Princess Bride" director and his wife.

"I knew Rob and Michele, and then increasingly got closer and closer to them, and I was seeing them a lot," he shared.

"My wife and I were seeing them a lot, and they were so—they were just such lovely people. And to have that experience of saying good night to somebody and having them leave and then find out the next day that they're gone. . . . I think I was in shock for quite a while afterward."

Rob and Michele's daughter, Romy, found the couplestabbed to deathin their home on Dec. 14. Rob was 78 and Michele was 70.

It was revealed at the time that their deaths occurred afterthey had argued with their son Nickat O'Brien's holiday party the previous night.

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Nick, 32, wasarrestedandcharged with two counts of first-degree murderwith a special circumstance of multiple murders.

The aspiring director faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

He was being medicated fordiagnosed schizophrenia; however, the medication had the effect of making him "out of his head." Nick alsohas a long history of drug addiction.

Nick was scheduled to be arraigned last month. However, his lawyer — famed criminal defense attorney Alan Jackson —quit the case just before the court hearingon Jan. 7. The arraignment has been rescheduled for Monday.

Jackson laterdiscussed his reasons for dropping the case.

"That's a confidential communication between a lot of folks that I'm not willing to disclose," he told Billy Bush during a January appearance on the "Hot Mic" podcast.

When Bush asked if it had to do with money, Jackson responded, "You can't say that something happened with the retainer because I've never said that."

"Obviously, something happened with my ability, and my team's ability, to continue the representation, but I don't want you, your audience or anybody else to start speculating as to what that might be," he added. "I have not said a word about it."

Jackson continued, "Once I'm done, I'm done. I've withdrawn."

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Conan O’Brien breaks silence on Rob Reiner murder after explosive fight at Christmas party

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Alan Cumming Says “Josie and the Pussycats ”Could've Been More Commercially Successful If the Marketing Team Hadn't 'Blown It'

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• While Alan Cumming has been in many successful movies, there's one he believes would have done better at the box office if it had been marketed better

• Cumming says 2001's Josie and the Pussycats was "ahead of its time" but poorly promoted

• "It could have found its audience sooner, and it could have been a much more commercially successful film if they hadn't blown it in the marketing department," he said

There's one filmAlan Cummingbelieves would have done better at the box office if it had been marketed better.

During a chat withInStyle Magazinelast month, theTraitorshost, 61, said he felt like theJosie and the Pussycatsmarketing team missed the mark when it came to promoting the 2001 musical comedy.

"My strongest memory and feeling aboutJosie and the Pussycatsis that it was a marketing disaster," he said. "It was totally marketed to the wrong audience."

While the movie "was marketed to tweens," he noted that "it's a very adult film."

"It's about sort of adult themes about the way that commerce is infiltrating our culture — it's a fun comedy, but it's got this underlying message that I don't think was appropriate or appreciated by the audience that it was targeted to," Cumming said.

However, thankfully, in the last 25 years, the film has "found its audience and people really appreciate it and are obsessed with it," which he "loves."

"I actually love being in films where people don't get it initially, and years go by, and it's sort of the gift that keeps on giving," he continued. "It could have found its audience sooner, and it could have been a much more commercially successful film if they hadn't blown it in the marketing department. Sorry to the marketing department, I'm sure you're all lovely, but you got it wrong."

He went on to say that the film was "very much ahead of its time."

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"It talks about the way that we are sold things through culture. We're actually all used to that; that's not a new thing, but then, 25 years ago, it was not really so common," theCabaretactor added.

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Josie and the Pussycats, based on the Archie Comic series of the same name, debuted in 2001. It starred Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson as the titular band members.

The movie debuted to poor reviews and a dismal box-office run, but the campy flick has since become a cult classic.

The satirical musical comedy also starredParker Posey, Gabriel Mann, Paulo Costanzo andMissi Pyle.

In 2024,CookandReidreunited atAwesome Conin Washington, D.C., where they spoke about the movie's impact and teased a possible reunion or remake project. Cook shared her appreciation forJosie and the Pussycats'devoted fanbase, helping the film stay relevant and reach cult classic status.

"You guys are a testament that the movie worked all these years later," she said. "This is all about making that movie. So, thank you!"

"If this movie came out now, it would have been huge," Reid added. "But I really feel like this movie was ahead of its time."

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Dove Cameron Reveals the ‘Kismet’ Reason She Was Cast in “56 Days”: ‘Feels Like the Universe Intervening’ (Exclusive)

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• Dove Cameron leads Prime Video's new thriller 56 Days alongside Avan Jogia, marking her first major TV role in quite a few years

• The Disney star, 30, tells PEOPLE about the "Hollywood fever dream" situation that led to her being cast as Ciara in the series: "I was like, 'What the f---?'"

• 56 Days is now streaming on Prime Video

56 Dayswas a showDove Cameronwas simply meant to be in.

The sexy, psychological thriller, which was based on Catherine Ryan Howard's book of the same name, sees Cameron andAvan Jogiaplay Ciara and Oliver. The pair fall hard and fast after a chance meeting at a grocery store, only for a dead body to be found in their apartment just 56 days later.

Cameron, 30, tells PEOPLE it was a "very challenging show," but it was also one that was tailored to her — literally.

"I had a really weird sort of kismet thing that happened with this show, which was that when I was 14 years old, so 16 years ago, I was auditioning for a show that Karyn Usher had created," she explains, telling a story that even her costar, Jogia, 34, has never heard. "I got to the final casting rounds for this show about a child whose father was a spy, and the spy goes missing, so she has to use her spy skills ... It was likeHannawithSaoirse Ronan. And it was on Fox, and it was before Disney."

Cameron remembers that Usher, who created56 Daysalongside Lisa Zwerling, "wanted me to get the role" on the Fox series and was "advocating for me," even going to the lengths of "rewriting" to try to get Cameron the part.

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"They ended up not going with me and the producers went with someone else, and — I'm not joking — she just reached out to me out of the blue, first time since I was 14 years old, and was like, 'I remember you from when you were a child. I always wanted to work with you. I hope that you want to do this part.," Cameron recalls. "And I was like, 'What the f---?' "

"It was like a Hollywood fever dream," she says of how the role of Ciara fell into her lap.

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Usher then sent her the script for56 Days,which the "Boyfriend" singer said had "all of these components of things that I'd never done before, but I just felt ready."

"I was in a time where I had just finishedwriting my album, and I didn't know when it was going to come out, and so I was like, I got the time, this feels like the universe intervening. I'm ready."

It helps that it was "the best script I've read in a very long time," she adds.

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In an Instagramposton Feb. 18, when the show premiered on Prime Video, Cameron said that she couldn't "delve into what this character means to me right now because there's too much to say and I couldn't fit it all here."

"I hope you love Ciara as much as I loved and love her still, my girl, my world," she wrote of her character.

56 Daysis now streaming on Prime Video.

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