Robert 'The Jinx' Durst To Be Sued by Family of Missing 1st Wife: Report

The family of Kathleen Durst, the missing first wife of multi-millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, are preparing a civil wrongful death lawsuit against him, according to an exclusive report in New York Magazine.

Kathleen Durst, known as Kathie, went missing from the couple’s South Salem home in 1982 and has never been found. Robert Durst has never been charged with a crime in connection with her disappearance, though he told police the two fought on the night she disappeared.

According to New York Magazine, the McCormack family have hired New York City attorney Alex Spiro, a former Manhattan prosecutor, to begin the process of the lawsuit. The first step is to have Kathie’s brother, Jim McCormack, named as the administrator of her estate, the paperwork for which Spiro filed this week.

Durst, who was the subject of a controversial HBO documentary series called “The Jinx, The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” is in prison currently awaiting trial in connection with the death of his former friend, Susan Berman.

Berman was discovered dead in her California home of a single gunshot wound to the head.

In the final episode of the series, confronted by the filmmaker over the death and the disappearance, Durst utters the words that ended the McCormacks’ hopes that Kathie may someday return.

“What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course,” Durst said.

“That, sadly, was the closure we’ve been chasing after for years and years,” Jim McCormack told New York Magazine. “After 33 years of hell — really, there’s no other way to describe what our family has been through — we decided it’s time to sue.”

Click here to read the full story on the New York Magazine website.

Photo of Robert Durst, screenshot from Click2Houston.com video on Youtube