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Obamas were due to meet the Reiners on the night they were killed, Michelle reveals

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Former first lady Michelle Obama has revealed she and her husband Barack were due to have dinner with Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday night before the Hollywood couple were found dead that afternoon.

Director Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele, 68, were found stabbed to death at their Los Angeles home. Reiner was a long-time liberal activist and a friend of the former president and his wife.

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