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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)…

Robert Durst Pleads Guilty in Gun Case, Setting Up Possible Murder Trial

Written by Charles V. Bagli (NY Times) Robert A. Durst’s luck may be running out. Mr. Durst, the estranged scion of a New York real estate family who has long been a suspect in several murders, pleaded guilty in New Orleans federal court on Wednesday to illegally possessing a .38-caliber revolver. In March 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, fearing that Mr. Durst was about to flee the…

Robert Durst is Getting the Law & Order: SVU Treatment

“This is the one America will be talking about—again” When Law & Order: SVU returns for Season 17 on Sept. 23, it will have a two-hour episode that’s “ripped from the headlines” — apparently inspired by accusations against real estate heir Robert Durst. Durst was the subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, which made headlines in March when its finale showed…

Don DeGabrielle is a former New Orleans prosecutor, FBI agent and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, and he’s the expert millionaire Robert Durst wants to scrutinize the search of his hotel room that led to federal gun charges that have landed Durst in jail. But federal prosecutors in New Orleans say that DeGabrielle has a conflict of interest: While he was U.S. Attorney,…

Attorneys for Robert Durst have asked to delay his New Orleans trial on a federal gun charge by one to two months. Last week’s motion comes as Durst’s team is engaged in a multi-front battle to knock down key evidence in the case. It stems from a search of Durst’s hotel room in March. FBI agents found a loaded pistol in Durst’s room at the JW Marriott hotel, but Durst’s attorneys say the search…