Robert Durst Is Going to Prison (But Not For That One Thing)

Robert Durst, the dashing star of HBO’s true crime miniseries The Jinx, was sentenced this morning to seven years and a month in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.

Robert Durst, the dashing star of HBO’s true crime miniseries The Jinx, was sentenced this morning to seven years and a month in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.

On Monday, Ann McCormack, mother of Kathleen McCormack, filed a $100 million lawsuit against her late daughter’s husband, Robert Durst, claiming that Durst deprived McCormack’s family of the right to possession of a body for burial. McCormack disappeared 33 years ago, after receiving a phone call from her estranged…
I know what the alleged Grindr serial killer did last summer and frankly I find it horrifying—Celebrity Masterchef is still on the air?!
Ever since HBO’s very good investigative pornography show “The Jinx” exploded this past spring, viewers and critics have wondered how much creator Andrew Jarecki’s own digging influenced the active murder investigations in Los Angeles and Westchester, N.Y., into his subject, the sociopathic millionaire Robert Durst. A…
The government apparently won a major turf war over New Orleans prosecutors, who just abandoned their case against America’s Sweetheart-alleged-serial-killer Robert Durst involving that gun, latex mask and five ounces of marijuana he was busted with last month.
Yesterday, Molly Hennessy-Fiske at The Los Angeles Times received a letter from a person claiming to be Robert Durst. The letter rambles on about a variety of topics, including traffic in L.A. and Houston, the NFL, opera, a beloved coffee shop, and Durst's health.
Everyone's favorite alleged murderer Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to gun charges in Louisiana today. The real estate heir and compulsive blinker was indicted by a grand jury yesterday on one count of possession of a firearm as a felon and one count possessing a firearm in the presence of a controlled substance.
Robert Durst will face felony gun charges stemming from his arrest last month in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reports that an Orleans Parish grand jury indicted the real estate heir Wednesday on one count of possession of a firearm as a felon and one count possessing a firearm in the presence of a controlled…
Fucked-up timeline notwithstanding, the most frustrating element of HBO's true-crime documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst was that we never got to see Durst in the drag he donned while hiding from Jeanine Pirro in Galveston, Texas. You know that whatever he looked like while impersonating…
Real estate developer Douglas Durst says his accused-murderer brother Robert was stalking him around Florida even as episodes of The Jinx began airing on HBO.
Robert Durst was a "good listener" who kept only a saw in his luxury apartment's spare bedroom, according to a Dallas woman who claims to have dated the accused murderer in 2000. "There was a little bedroom with a concrete floor, and it had a saw," Linda Walker Zevallos told the TODAY Show.
Robert Durst was denied bail at court in New Orleans today after a nearly three-hour hearing, ABC News reports. Today's hearing pertained to two weapons charges; a second bail hearing, on his arrest on the murder warrant issued by Los Angeles police, will follow.
Everyone's favorite alleged murderer Robert Durst was reportedly in possession of a latex mask designed to conceal his identity when he was arrested last weekend. TMZ reports that police found the mask in the real estate heir's hotel room along with $42,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, and a small amount of marijuana.
For most of us, Robert Durst's apparent confession at the end of HBO's The Jinx was a shocking, bone-chilling revelation. To Durst's lawyer Chip Lewis, however, it was really no big deal, because hey, who hasn't copped to a murder or three while talking to themselves?
Robert Durst is one of the more sympathetic alleged serial killers I've seen interviewed on television. He's not folksily unhinged, like Charles Manson, or flatly terrifying, like Jeffrey Dahmer. He seems like any other New York eccentric. He carries a backpack, wears little sneakers and toddles around New York…
In the incredible finale of The Jinx, Robert Durst seemingly confessed to the murders of his wife Kathie Durst, his Galveston neighbor Morris Black, and his friend Susan Berman. These aren't the only suspicious deaths and disappearances tied to his name, however.