The scion of one of New York City’s wealthiest real estate families — and the subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx, about his connection to the deaths of his wife, friend, and neighbor — will be extradited eventually to California to face murder charges. He is currently being held in jail in New Orleans.
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Robert Durst, the 71-year-old scion of a Manhattan real estate empire, was arrestedin New Orleans Saturday on charges he murdered his former best friend, Susan Berman, in Los Angeles in 2000.
He agreed in court on Monday to be extradited to California to face the murder charge.
It is unclear when he will be transferred to California.
Durst has been ordered to appear in a New Orleans court next week on weapons and drug charges.
Durst has been linked to the deaths of his former wife, Kathleen, in 1982; Berman; and neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas, in 2001.
Durst agreed to give an interview to director Andrew Jarecki for The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.
In the series finale, aired on HBO on Sunday, Jarecki confronted Durst with handwriting evidence that strongly implies he was involved in Berman’s death.
Durst denied it on camera, but was caught on a hot microphone in the bathroom saying, “There it is. You’re caught … what the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
