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Robert Durst, the millionaire real estate heir and convicted murderer whose case was detailed in the shocking HBO documentary The Jinx, died a prisoner today at the San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton, California, after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 78. His death was announced by his lawyer Chip Lewis, who…

UPDATED, 3 PM: Millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst was indicted for murder on Monday by a grand jury in Westchester County, New York, in the death of his former wife, Kathie, who disappeared in 1982. The second-degree murder indictment follows a criminal complaint that was filed against the 78-year-old Durst…

Robert Durst, the infamous millionaire real-estate heir convicted last month in the 2000 murder of close friend Susan Berman, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark E. Windham read the sentence at the Airport Courthouse today. Durst, 78…

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…

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…

HBO’s controversial The Jinx: The Life And Deaths of Robert Durst just won a big show of support from the TV Academy, nabbing the Emmy for best documentary or nonfiction series tonight. It beat out PBS’ three much less radioactive American Masters, Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies and The Roosevelts: An Intimate His…

Bill Maher weighed in Friday night on the controversy over the timing of this week’s arrest of Robert Durst, the subject of HBO’s documentary The Jinx: The Life And Deaths of Robert Durst, and Sunday’s broadcast of the high-rated finale of the six-episode broadcast in which Durst seemingly confessed to multiple…

The surprise ending to HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst set off the kind of online buzz (not to mention law-enforcement attention) most documentary makers could only dream off, inspiring 35,000 tweets seen by 2.8 million people, Nielsen said in its weekly Twitter TV ratings. That was good enough to…

The dramatic March 14 arrest of Robert Durst on a murder warrant in New Orleans certainly put the spotlight on the finale of the HBO documentary series Sunday night. That timely attention and the seemingly off-screen audio confession in the final minutes of the last episode of The Jinx: The Life And Deaths of Robert Du…

Robert Durst – you couldn’t make this guy up, as I say in my video review above. Implicated in three deaths, including the still-unsolved disappearance of his medical-student wife Kathleen in 1982, the scion of a Manhattan real estate fortune has done time only once, and that was for shoplifting a sandwich when he had…

“By the time you get to the end of this series, you won’t be scratching your head — you will have a clear view of what happened,” Andrew Jarecki told TV critics this afternoon, of his six-part documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," that tracks his experience being contacted by Robert Durst, son…