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Reiners’ Friendship With Death Row Inmate Revealed

Reiner discussed a one-man show about the prisoner.

Hours before her death, Michele Reiner reportedly emailed a death row inmate whom she and her husband, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, had befriended. Nanon Williams, 51, told NBC News about how he received a message from Michele about Lyrics From Lockdown, a one-man show about Williams’ story and the link between mass incarceration and race. Williams has been in prison for 34 years for a murder he says he did not commit. According to NBC News, Rob and Michele watched the show in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 12—two days before their bodies were discovered in their Brentwood mansion—alongside Williams’ mother and sisters. The two were joined on a double date with Billy Crystal and his wife, Janice. On Saturday night, Michele wrote to Williams with the subject line “Ugly Side of Beautiful.” “I’m sure you have heard from Tera,” Michele wrote, referencing Williams’ wife, “but the show last night was amazing.” Reiner added: “We all said that we can’t wait to watch it with you.” Due to the prison screening process, Williams wasn’t able to read the email until days later, after he had become aware that Reiner and her husband had been killed. Nick Reiner, the couple’s 32-year-old son, is due to be arraigned on Wednesday to face two charges of first-degree murder.