The ultimate scene of “The Jinx: Part Two” docuseries finale, which aired on Sunday, reveals gorgeous views of a lavish beachfront mansion, meant to characterize the Hamptons house of killer Robert Durst‘s widow, Debrah Lee Charatan.
The sequence, which chronicles the California homicide prosecution of New York actual property scion Durst, makes use of Charatan’s Bridgehampton mansion, valued at $15 million on Realtor.com®, as a logo of the corrupt affect Durst’s fortune had on these near him.
However what will not be revealed within the docuseries by filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is that the star Los Angeles prosecutor who received a homicide conviction towards Durst as soon as vacationed within the mansion in a single day as Charatan’s invited visitor, simply months after Durst died behind bars.
The gorgeous revelation is the newest twist within the Durst saga. Inheritor to a industrial actual property empire, Durst was suspected within the 1982 disappearance of his spouse Kathleen McCormack Durst in New York, acquitted of murdering his neighbor Robert Morris in Texas after admitting to dismembering the person’s physique, and convicted of the 2000 homicide of his shut buddy Susan Berman in Los Angeles.
Quickly after he secured that homicide conviction in late 2021, Los Angeles Deputy District Legal professional John Lewin and his daughter visited Charatan in her beachfront mansion and stayed there in a single day, Information 12 Bronx first reported on Tuesday.
The report cited taped depositions from a wrongful dying lawsuit filed by the household of Durst’s spouse Kathleen, through which Charatan and Lewin each affirm his sleepover go to.
Charatan, in a deposition dated final October, is seen curtly confirming that Lewin visited her Bridgehampton house, slept over, and that she was current within the house on the time.
Lewin, in his personal deposition dated March 1, seems startled when requested concerning the trip.
“Did I spend the night? So, my daughter and I, on a vacation to New York City, made arrangements. … The trial was long over, Bob Durst was long dead, and we made the arrangement,” he mentioned within the clip of the deposition printed by Information 12.
The go to got here simply months after Durst died behind bars in January 2022, in response to the outlet. The killer’s dying at age 78 adopted his October 2021 sentencing to life in jail for murdering Berman. Prosecutors mentioned Durst shot Berman execution-style in her Benedict Canyon house in 2000 to stop her from revealing what she knew about Kathleen’s disappearance many years earlier.
“And my daughter and I had a lovely… I think we spent not one night if I recall. … I think it was two nights there,” mentioned Lewin within the taped deposition. “I can’t remember, but it’s nothing that is in any way unethical, illegal, or improper.”
Nevertheless, authorized consultants expressed skepticism, saying that the sleepover go to might elevate moral questions for Lewin.
“This does not pass the smell test,” Tempo Legislation Faculty professor Bennett Gershman advised Information 12. “I just don’t get it. It just strikes me as so foolish and terrible judgment.”
Charatan, Lewin, and the Los Angeles District Legal professional’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Realtor.com on Wednesday. The DA’s workplace advised Information 12 that it was “aware of the allegation” however couldn’t remark additional on personnel issues.
In response to “The Jinx,” Durst helped Charatan buy the Bridgehampton mansion after their hasty wedding ceremony in December 2000. The day after the marriage, performed in a Manhattan workplace with no visitors or reception, Durst flew to California to homicide Berman, the docuseries reveals.
Public data present that Charatan bought the Bridgehampton house in November 2006 for $11 million. She is listed as the only real proprietor of the six-bedroom, 4,899-square-foot house with prime seaside frontage.
