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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…

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…

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 report, he will be sentenced to 85 months in federal prison as part of 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…

Where’s Andrew Jarecki? The director of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst canceled scheduled appearances on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes and other venues. He and producer Marc Smerling also released the following statement, after telling one journalist they are…

UPDATED, 4:40 PM: Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today charged Robert Durst with the 2000 killing of his friend Susan Berman in L.A. Read the full statement below. PREVIOUSLY, 9:17 AM: Robert Durst’s apparent confession to the murders of his wife, neighbor and best friend wasn’t discovered until “many…