For more than a year, Robert A. Durst, the embattled real estate scion, has endured a grueling series of pretrial hearings in Los Angeles, where he is charged with murdering a confidante to prevent ...

Robert Durst was the first son of Seymour Durst, and thus a scion to one of New York’s oldest and wealthiest real estate companies, the Durst Organization. In “The Jinx,” Durst said his life was ...