Robert Durst Early Life, Career, Relationship & Film Career

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• Robert Durst Early Life, Career, Relationship
  Film Career

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How did Robert Durst live?

• Robert Durst was born into a well-known family in
  New York City in 1943. Over time, he became known
  for being involved in strange and bad things.
  Kathleen, his young wife, went missing in 1982,
  and Susan Berman, his longtime friend, was found
  dead in 2000. Durst was arrested for the death of
  a Texas man in 2001, but he was found not guilty
  of murder even though he admitted to cutting up
  the body. In 2015, the eccentric millionaire was
  arrested and charged with killing Berman after
  new evidence from the documentary The Jinx The
  Life and Deaths of Robert Durst came to light.

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Early Life

• Bernice and Seymour Durst had Robert Alan Durst
  on April 12, 1943, in New York City. In 1902, his
  grandfather Joseph moved from Austria to the
  United States. He had few things and even less
  money. By 1915, the patriarch of the Durst family
  had saved enough money to buy his first property
  in New York. In 1927, he set up the Durst
  Organization as a legal business.

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Real Estate Business

• Seymour kept the business going and grew it,
  making a name for the family in the real estate
  business. Bernice fell off the roof of the
  familys house and died in 1950. This was the
  first bad thing to happen to young Durst. At the
  time, newspapers said Bernice was confused
  because of the asthma medicine she was taking,
  but there were many rumors that she had killed
  herself.

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Graduate

• Durst went to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania
  to study business and economics after he
  graduated from Scarsdale High School.
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Where Did Durst First Wife Go?

• In 1965, after getting his degree in economics,
  Durst moved to the west coast and started a
  doctoral program at UCLA. There, he met Susan
  Berman, who was the daughter of a Las Vegas
  mobster and would show up later in Dursts
  messed-up history.

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Leave Job

• Durst quit UCLA in 1969 and moved back to New
  York. In 1971, he met Kathleen McCormack, a
  dental hygienist. They moved in together quickly
  and got married in 1973. They seemed to be happy
  together. But Durst became more and more
  possessive of Kathleen and hurt her until she
  disappeared in early 1982. Investigators talked
  to Durst and followed different leads, but they
  were never able to find his wife.

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Leave Job

• Durst quit UCLA in 1969 and moved back to New
  York. In 1971, he met Kathleen McCormack, a
  dental hygienist. They moved in together quickly
  and got married in 1973. They seemed to be happy
  together. But Durst became more and more
  possessive of Kathleen and hurt her until she
  disappeared in early 1982. Investigators talked
  to Durst and followed different leads, but they
  were never able to find his wife.

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Divorce

• Durst got a divorce in 1990, and he moved in with
  his new girlfriend, Debrah Lee Charatan, who
  would later become his second wife. During this
  time, he kept working for the family business
  until he and his siblings had a fight. He moved
  around the country for the greater part of the
  1990s. He came back for a short time when his
  father died in 1995.

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Officially Declared Dead

• In the meantime, Kathleen Durst was officially
  declared dead in the spring of 2017, 35 years
  after she went missing. Soon after her death, her
  family started more legal action. In May, they
  sued Dursts second wife, Debrah Lee Charatan,
  and in October, they sued the NYPD to get them to
  give them documents about the investigation into
  her disappearance.

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Kathleen Life

• Kathleens life got more attention when The Lost
  Wife of Robert Durst, a movie on Lifetime, came
  out on November 4, 2017. The movie is based on
  Matt Birkbecks 2002 book A Deadly Secret The
  Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst. Daniel
  Gillies plays the troubled real estate scion, and
  Katharine McPhee plays the wife who disappeared
  in 1982.

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Death

• Durst died in Stockton, California, on January
  10, 2022, while he was in jail. He was 78.