Durst was found guilty by a Los Angeles court of killing his friend Susan Berman with a gunshot to the head in 2000 in Beverly Hills.
The rich one American heir Robert Durst, recently sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his best friend, died Monday in detention at the age of 78, one of his lawyers said.
The billionaire died of “natural causes related to the long list of medical problems that we repeatedly brought to court in the past two years,” stated Chip Lewis.
Durst was found guilty in September by a Los Angeles court of killing his friend Susan Berman with a gunshot to the head in 2000 in Beverly Hills.
Life in prison for millionaire Robert Durst, for murdering his best friend Susan Berman
According to the prosecution, the murder was intended to disguise his role in the murder of his wife, Kathleen.
Durst wanted to prevent Berman from answering questions from the police officers who were leading the investigation into his wife’s disappearance in 1982.
The magnate always denied the fact, but was indicted in New York in October, shortly after his sentenced to life in prison in California.
The black sheep of one of the largest families in New York real estate, Durst was arrested in March 2015, on the eve of the broadcast of the latest episode of a biographical documentary on HBO entitled “The Jinx.”
The series portrayed another bloody episode from his life: the murder of one of his neighbors, which he dismembered and threw into the sea.
Durst was acquitted of the crime thanks to an army of prestigious lawyers who invoked a form of self-defense, mixed with an accidental shooting and acts committed under the influence of alcohol.
In the series, Durst seemed to involuntarily confess, when he muttered to himself in a bathroom and without having deactivated his microphone: “What did I do? I killed them all, obviously.
Later, he argued that he was drugged during the filming of the documentary and that his purposes did not mean anything in particular. (I)
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