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Robert Durst, who famously may have confessed to a murder on an HBO documentary, will have to stand trial for the 2000 slaying of his best friend, writer Susan Berman. A judge ruled Thursday there is enough evidence for Durst to stand trial. Durst is charged with shooting Berman in the back of the head at her Benedict…

Ryan Gosling is attracting a lot of awards-season attention right now for his role as Neil Armstrong in First Man, but for the Los Angeles County District Attorney, today the moonshot is all about his thinly veiled portrayal of Robert Durst in 2010’s All Good Things. Seriously. “All Good Things, although a ‘fictional…

Late night TV shows spent Monday catching up on President Donald Trump’s historic tweet over the weekend. Jimmy Kimmel may have described it best, in industry terms. “Yesterday – I don't know if you if you were following this over the weekend –  he thumbed a doozy. One that could potentially land his son in prison,&#8221…

At a pre-trial hearing earlier this week in Los Angeles, real estate mogul Robert Durst was heard on a jail house recording regretting the interviews he provided HBO documentarians for its study, The Jinx, a series of conversations which ultimately led to his arrest. In the jail call, which he made in 2015, Durst…

Prosecutors have asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to admit evidence of past acts of domestic violence in their case against New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who is charged with murdering his best friend and confidant. District Attorney Jackie Lacey argued that Durst’s alleged history of physically and…

Prosecutors in the murder case against Robert Durst can begin videotaping witness testimony next month, a California state judge ruled today, rejecting arguments from Durst’s lawyers that the schedule wouldn’t provide enough time to prepare. In court papers filed earlier, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s…

Robert Durst says he was under the influence of methamphetamines when he murmured the apparent murder confession that dramatically capped HBO’s six-part 2015 doc The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst and led to his arrest. In fact, Durst told prosecutors last year, he was high during the entire taping. In a…

Freshly extradited to California last week, Robert Durst entered a not guilty plea today at an arraignment hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court over the 2000 murder of Susan Berman. The real estate scion’s long-suspected involvement in the murders of his friend Berman, his first wife, and a Texas neighbor were the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is developing an untitled movie about real estate magnate Robert Durst, subject of HBO’s The Jinx, who’s serving a seven-year prison sentence in Louisiana for weapons possession. The network has optioned Matt Birkbeck’s book A Deadly Secret: The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst, for use…

A federal judge in New Orleans has formally sentenced real estate magnate Robert Durst to 85 months in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release, for weapons possession. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt today approved the sentence that was agreed to as part of a plea deal reached in February on the felony…

Robert Durst, the real estate magnate whose long-suspected involvement in several murders chronicled in HBO’s documentary The Jinx led to his arrest, pleaded guilty to felony gun possession Wednesday in New Orleans. According to a New York Times <a…

UPDATE, 5:50 AM: A deal has been reached to return Robert Durst, subject of HBO’s The Jinx, from Louisiana to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the 2000 shooting death of close friend and journalist Susan Berman. Under the agreement announced Tuesday afternoon, Durst will be extradited to Los Angeles by August 18…