Robert Durst

The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square

by James Traub  · 1 Jan 2004  · 341pp  · 116,854 words

was picked up when he stole a chicken salad sandwich from a supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Amid intense publicity, excruciatingly painful for this retiring family, Robert Durst was indicted for murder. In the trial, held in the fall of 2003, Durst admitted the killing but pled self-defense. To the amazement of

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans  · 25 Apr 2023  · 427pp  · 134,098 words

Hsieh family for $130 million. She hired high-profile Vegas lawyers David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, whose previous clients included Paris Hilton, Bruno Mars, and Robert Durst. In Mimi’s creditor’s claims to the estate, she stated she was owed $9 million as part of the fees related to managing Park

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Cocaine Plea Deal,” Las Vegas Sun, February 4, 2011, https://lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/04/us-bruno-mars-vegas-arrest/. Robert Durst: Bagli, Charles V., “After a 14-Month Delay, Robert Durst’s Murder Trial Returns to Court,” New York Times, May 17, 2021. The next week, Puoy Premsrirut filed: Ferrara, David, “Attorney

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam L. Alter  · 15 Feb 2017  · 331pp  · 96,989 words

’s release of Serial heralded a flood of unsolved real-life crime documentaries. In February 2015, HBO released The Jinx, which tracks the life of Robert Durst, a man who was associated with a number of unsolved murders. The day before HBO released the documentary, Durst was arrested for one of those

The Smartest Guys in the Room

by Bethany McLean  · 25 Nov 2013  · 778pp  · 233,096 words

-trial legend better known for defending murderers than for defending CEOs. But he’d won cases that seemed impossible: In 2004, he’d famously helped Robert Durst, a cross-dressing millionaire, walk away free from his Texas murder trial, even though Durst had admitted shooting his elderly neighbor, chopping up the body

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

by Peter Biskind  · 6 Nov 2023  · 543pp  · 143,084 words

HBO that I loved anymore. Richard wanted celebrity [documentaries].” She, on the other hand, was making docs on freaks like Robert Durst (she commissioned The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, which aired in 2015). She ordered up Laura Poitras’s award-winning Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. According to one source, Plepler

Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 17 May 2021  · 445pp  · 135,648 words

people in documentary filmmaking in the country. She had produced over a thousand documentaries, including Going Clear and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. She had won thirty-two Emmys and twenty-six Oscars. She was a legend. She was also known to be tough. My boss Graydon had

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

off to direct The Big Short, and Armstrong turned his interest elsewhere. In 2015, he enthusiastically consumed The Jinx, HBO’s multipart documentary series about Robert Durst, the accused murderer and bizarre scion of an uberrich New York real estate family. Afterward, Armstrong buried himself in a stack of books about business