An American Idol executive and her husband have been found murdered inside their $5 million Los Angeles mansion.
Robin Kaye, an award-winning music supervisor for the hit show, and Thomas Deluca, both 70, were discovered brutally shot to death at their home in Encino on Monday around 2.33pm, the Los Angeles Police Department told Daily Mail.
Officers were called to the six-bedroom home for a ‘welfare check,’ but when they entered, they discovered Kaye and Deluca both shot in the head.
Authorities witnessed blood at the front entrance of the couple’s home before breaking through a window to enter the property, a source told TMZ.
Their sudden deaths are being investigated as a double homicide, police said. The motive is unknown, police said.
Police were previously called to their home on Thursday after a suspect was allegedly trying to break in, the outlet reported.
According to neighbors, a person, who may have been armed, was spotted hopping a fence on the tree-lined street in the ritzy California neighborhood.
Police officers were called to the home to conduct a welfare check after neighbors and family had not heard from them in four days.
Robin Kaye and Thomas Deluca, both 70, were brutally shot to death inside their home in Encino Monday
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department were called to the six-bedroom home (pictured) for a welfare check, but when they entered, they discovered Kaye and Deluca’s lifeless bodies
Kaye with Singer La’Porsha Renae and producer Randy Jackson in 2017
Kaye worked as the music supervisor for singing competition American Idol for the last 15 seasons, or 300 episodes, per her IMDB page.
Over the years, she won several Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for her work on the show.
She also worked for other well-known shows, including Lip Sync Battle, Hollywood Game Night, and Worn Stories.
Kaye also worked for the NAACP Image Awards, The Singing Bee, Miss USA, Miss Universe, American Inventor, The Dance Scene, Dance Your A** Off, Your Chance to Dance and Adventures of Power and Crashed.
During the 7th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in Hollywood in 2017, Kaye spoke about her career path, which she said was often unappreciated.
‘It’s one of those parts of the business that people don’t even know it exists,’ Kaye said.
‘It’s a very important part of films and TV. Pretty much everything in the entertainment industry has music in it and people just think that it’s there.’
Kay (left) and Deluca (right) with Dolly Parton (second from left) in 2009
Her husband was a musician who last released an album called Street Rock in 2022
Authorities witnessed blood at the front entrance of the couple’s home before breaking through a window to enter the property (pictured)
Over the years, she won several Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for her work on American Idol
Her husband was a musician who last released an album called Street Rock in 2022.
His first ‘acclaimed cult favorite debut’ album. ‘Down To The Wire,’ was released by Epic Records in 1986, Deluca’s website detailed.
The couple purchased the home in January 2023, according to public records.
It was previously owned by late rapper Juice WRLD who died in 2019 from an overdose, neighbors told KTLA.
The home was also used a rental property before being sold to the couple, neighbors said.
Daily Mail contacted American Idol for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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