Robert Durst killed his first wife — and then his wealthy father and other members of his “cr🌞ime family”🀅 helped cover it up, according to a scathing new Manhattan lawsuit.
Before she disappeared in 1982, Durst’s wife, Kathie, had planned to expose illegal business dealings within the family’s real estate company, the wrongful death suit says. That prompted Durst’s magnate dad, Seymour Durst, to warn his son that his wife “was a threat to the family’s business and directed Durst to take care of this problem,” says the suit, filed by Kathie’s sister, Carol Bamonte.
In the months and years after Kathie’s di♋sappearance, Seymour circled the wagons to protect his son, the suit says.
Seymour, other relatives and people linked to the Durst Organization “conspired to protect [Robert] Durst a♋nd The Durst Organization from any connection to Kathie’s disappearance and murder,” Bamonte claims.
They are “accessorꦗies after the fact” to Kathie’s murder, Bamonte says in her suit, filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“The crime family members” helped develop “a false alibi” for Durst, telling a series of lies to the media and the cops to keep them from suspecting Robert, the sister alleg🧜es.
The family’s 🦋involvement in creating ▨this “false narrative” is “further evidence of [Robert] Durst’s guilt,” the suit says.
Seymour, who has since died, “ordered” his family and employees “not to cooperate with the police in🍸vestigation,” and they spread “a publicity smear campaign against Kathie and her family,” the suit sa🧔ys.
Seymour knew “that Durst lied about his and Kathie’s whereabouts on January 31, 1982, and knew or had to know that Durst killed Kathie — but he still publicly and privately referred to Kathie as a ‘runaway wife,’” the suit says.
Robert D🎐urst remains the only suspec🙈t in Kathie’s death.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified cash damages.
“The accusations are fiction, and this is a lawyer’s attempt to make a buck,” Durst family spokesman Jordan Barowitz said in response. “Unfortunately, Robert’s mendacity has l🎀eft a tr𝓀ail of heartbreak, grief and broken lives.”
Robert is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles this year for allegedly killing his friend Susan Berman in 2000 to prevent her from telling the police abouꩲt his role in Kathie’s disappearanc𒀰e.