Nick Reiner says he hasn’t been able to scrounge together even $5 for jail commissary, despite being the sole beneficiary of a family trust worth roughly $1.6 million. According to new court filings obtained by PEOPLE, Reiner’s attorneys wrote that he “has not been able to access even $5 from his trust to buy basic subsistence items.”
The 33-year-old has been held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility since December 2025, when he was arrested in the stabbing deaths of his parents, director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. He was indicted in July on two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances of lying in wait, and prosecutors confirmed this week that they won’t pursue the death penalty.
At the center of the new filings is the trust’s “Age-30 Distribution,” which, by the successor trustee’s own calculation, made at least $558,000 payable to Reiner back on Sept. 14, 2023, nearly two years before his parents’ deaths. His attorneys argue the timing matters: California’s Slayer Statute can block someone from profiting off a death they caused, but they say it shouldn’t reach money that was already his, sitting untouched, long before anyone accused him of anything.
The filings also accuse the trustees of dragging their feet while racking up more than $250,000 in legal fees paid out of the trust itself. In one filing, Reiner’s lawyers claim former trustee Paul Kanin agreed in April to replenish his commissary account, received deposit instructions, and simply never followed through. Kanin resigned after roughly 15 weeks on the job.
Reiner’s team says the stakes go beyond snacks. Without trust access, he’s been unable to rehire high-profile attorney Alan Jackson, who withdrew from the case in January citing “circumstances beyond our control,” leaving Reiner with a public defender ever since.
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