New Delhi, June 9 -- Director Rob Reiner and photographer and movie producer Michele Singer Reiner's son is now reportedly seeking access to a more than $1.5 million trust fund that his parents left him to help pay for his defence after he was accused of double homicide.

Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, who were found stabbed to death in the primary bedroom of their Brentwood home on 14 December last year. Paramedics discovered the couple at around 3:40 PM, although prosecutors have said they were killed earlier that morning.

Reiner was arrested later that day at around 9:15 PM in Los Angeles' Exposition Park neighbourh...