Reality television star and “Legal Diva” Loredana Nesci was found dead today in her North Redondo Beach home. Robert Reagan, her partner and father of the couple’s five-year-old child, was arrested at the scene and has been charged with murder. There are no other suspects, according to police.
Redondo Beach Police officers responded to the home, on the 1900 block of Nelson Street, around 7:20 a.m. on July 22, following an emergency call placed by Reagan.
“It was one we listed as an ‘unknown trouble’ call,” said Redondo Beach Sergeant Fabien Saucedo. “He wasn’t saying much; he was distraught, something wasn’t right, but he wouldn’t elaborate. At the time of the call, he was being very vague.”
Police have yet to release the cause of the death, or if any weapons were involved, but they have ruled out the use of firearms in her death.
Neighbors described the pair as private, mostly keeping to themselves. Nearby resident Justin Glickman said he would regularly see Reagan, a general contractor, though not Nesci.
“They were just neighbors — they kept to themselves,” he said.
At least, aside from when they were filming Nesci’s reality TV show, Loredana, Esq.
“People didn’t appreciate when they were filming,” said a neighbor, Eric, who requested his last name not be used.
Eric, who had known the couple since they moved into the neighborhood two years ago, said that he thought the end of the relationship was coming.
“They were always arguing,” he said. “I grow peppers in the front yard, and I had to hear it all the time…it was obvious they weren’t going to make it. The arguing just became more and more frequent.”
“It’s a shame it had to come this way,” Eric said.
The couple lived in their North Redondo home with their two dogs and their five-year-old son, Rocco. Police said that Rocco is at the home of a friend or a relative, but have not yet established whether or not he was in the home at the time of the alleged murder, Saucedo said.
In addition to her own TV show, Nesci was an occasional guest and legal correspondent on The View, and maintained a legal practice in Riviera Village.
