Robert Durst

Friend of Robert Durst’s alleged victim is certain he’ll be convicted

Robert Durst will finally be convicted of murder, according to Cathy Scott, the biographer of his alleged victim Susan Berman. Scott — author of “Murder of a Mafia Daughter” (Barricade Books) — will be in the Los Angeles courtroom on Feb. 14 for Durst’s pretrial hearing. She says Durst will be convicted, even though he has the best lawyers money can buy. “The evidence is clear. I don’t see how he…

35 Years Later, Sister in Durst Case Is Still Looking for Answers

From left, Kathie Durst, Robert Durst, Tom Hughes and Mary McCormack Hughes in 1973. Ms. Hughes, Ms. Durst’s sister, remains convinced that Mr. Durst was culpable in her disappearance.   Mary McCormack Hughes has a vivid recollection of the phone call she got 35 years ago this week from Robert Durst, her brother-in-law. “Have you seen Kathie?” he asked. Kathie was Kathleen Durst, Ms. Hughes’s…

Lawyer: ‘Medical Complications’ Delaying Robert Durst’s Extradition on Murder Charge

The lawyer representing Manhattan real estate heir and accused murderer Robert Durst says several unspecified “medical complications” have delayed his client’s impending extradition to California, where he has been charged with the 2000 execution-style shooting death of his longtime friend and spokeswoman Susan Berman. Prominent Texas attorney Dick DeGuerin tells PEOPLE that Durst could be…

Robert Durst’s lawyers challenge evidence and accuse prosecutor of ‘deceptive’ jailhouse interview

Robert Durst has said he’s eager to let a Los Angeles jury decide whether he killed his friend and confidant Susan Berman, but a brewing legal battle may impede the start of any trial. Attorneys for Durst filed court papers Thursday that challenge some of the evidence against the eccentric millionaire and offer a clearer glimpse into their defense. They argue that the high-profile murder case was…

Robert Durst said he was high on meth during some interviews for HBO series ‘The Jinx’

Robert Durst, the eccentric heir to a real estate fortune, told Los Angeles prosecutors last year that he was high on methamphetamines during interviews he gave for the 2015 HBO miniseries “The Jinx,” according to court papers released Friday. The series covered Durst’s links to three tragedies involving his wife, who disappeared in 1982 and is presumed dead, his best friend who was shot…

Murder Victim Said Robert Durst Admitted Killing Wife, Witness Says

A longtime friend of Robert Durst testified Thursday that after a dinner in 2014, he asked the millionaire about the murder of their mutual close friend Susan Berman and got a disturbing answer. “It was her or me,” Durst said, according to ad executive Nick Chavin. A year later, Durst, the subject of the HBO show “The Jinx,” would be charged with the 2000 slaying of Berman, allegedly because she…

Robert Durst Said Giving Details About Missing Wife Would Be ‘Pleading Guilty’

Los Angeles prosecutors have released a transcript of a 2015 interrogation of millionaire murder suspect Robert Durst in which he says he can’t provide details about the disappearance of his first wife and the murder of a close friend because it would amount to “pleading guilty.” Durst, 73, then mused aloud about what would be in it for him to give information about the two women to…

HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ played key role in ‘urgent’ timing of Robert Durst’s arrest, prosecutors say

After coming to suspect Robert Durst in the execution-style slaying of writer Susan Berman, the Los Angeles Police Department was forced to make a swift arrest of the real estate scion because of an HBO miniseries, prosecutors said in court filings on Monday. Durst was nabbed one day before the final episode of the six-part HBO documentary, “The Jinx,” revealed the eccentric millionaire muttering…

More Drama in Robert Durst’s Pre-Trial Murder Hearing

Robert Durst’s defense attorney went on the attack Friday against testimony from a longtime friend who’d said the eccentric real estate heir had admitted murdering their mutual friend Susan Berman in 2000. In blockbuster testimony Thursday, New York advertising executive Nick Chavin said Durst effectively confessed to the killing after they had dinner in December 2014. “I had to. It was her or…

Durst admits doing HBO documentary was ‘stupid’

Millionaire real-estate heir Robert Durst admitted he was “stupid” to participate in an HBO documentary that appeared to implicate him in the 2000 murder of his friend, according to new evidence. In a recorded jail phone call played Friday in Los Angeles court, Durst told his pal Nathan Chavin that “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” is what landed him in prison in 2015. Unknowingly…

Robert Durst Allegedly Owes Investigators $130,000

He reportedly stiffed the bill. After Robert Durst hired private investigators to probe his arrest in March 2015 for the murder of his friend Susan Burman, he reportedly stiffed them on a $130,000 bill, according to the New York Post. Reportedly, Durst paid a $25,000 retainer, and the firm spend almost 500 hours on “field work and digital research” into the details surrounding his arrest.…

Robert Durst allegedly stiffed investigators on $130k bill

Killer real-estate scion Robert Durst stiffed private investigators on a $130,000 bill after hiring them to probe his March 2015 arrest for the murder of his friend Susan Berman, according to a new lawsuit. The jailed Durst is now awaiting trial in Los Angeles over her 2000 death. Law-enforcement officials believe Durst killed Berman to prevent her from cooperating in an investigation into the…

Robert Durst: Meth use led to HBO live mic murder ‘confession’

Eccentric real estate heir Robert Durst claims drugs fueled his seeming “killed them all” confession to the murders of his wife and two others in an HBO documentary. That was Durst’s explanation for his caught-on-tape outburst when a prosecutor quizzed him about it after his 2015 arrest for the murder of confidante Susan Berman, the New York Post reported Saturday. The paper reports that Durst,…

Robert Durst jailed for seven years

Real estate scion Robert Durst is sentenced to seven years in prison for a federal gun crime, but his defense attorney maintains he did not kill his best friend, Susan Berman. A New Orleans judge on Wednesday sentenced real estate scion Robert Durst to seven years in prison for a federal gun crime and agreed to recommend that he serve his time in a California prison. Durst, 73, faces a murder…

Robert Durst Finally Headed to L.A. to Face Murder Charges

“I truly, truly want to express my statement that I am not guilty of killing Susan Berman,” Durst told a federal judge on Wednesday. It has been over a year since Robert Durst was arrested in New Orleans, hours before the damning finale episode of Andrew Jarecki’s HBO mini-series, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst—complete with seeming murder confessions—aired. At the time of his…

How Robert Durst Ended Up on ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Season Two

“We were all so obsessed with ‘The Jinx’ when we started writing the season, and Durst is such a great New York character,” showrunner Robert Carlock tells THR. [Warning: This story contains spoilers from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s second season.] Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is living in an alternate universe in season two, all because of Robert Durst. In the season opener, Lillian (Carol Kane)…