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A Year of Loss in Entertainment as Charges Filed in the Reiner Stabbings

The year’s tributes unfolded alongside a criminal case after prosecutors charged Nick Reiner over his parents’ fatal stabbings.

Overview

  • Prosecutors charged Nick Reiner, 32, with two counts of first-degree murder after Rob, 78, and Michele Reiner were found fatally stabbed in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home.
  • The medical examiner ruled both Reiners’ deaths homicides caused by multiple sharp-force injuries.
  • Fans mourned Ozzy Osbourne, 76, laying tributes at Birmingham’s Black Sabbath Bench, with a cortege procession on July 30 following his reported heart-attack death.
  • An inquest heard that Dame Jilly Cooper, 88, died from a fatal head injury sustained in a fall at her Gloucestershire home.
  • Former Stone Roses bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield, 63, was laid to rest on December 22 as bandmates and leading musicians carried his coffin at Manchester Cathedral.