Durst $100M Lawsuit: Kathleen Durst's Family Wants Assets Frozen

Editor’s Note: Patch is re-running this story in case you missed it the first time around.

The family of Kathleen McCormack Durst, the missing and presumed dead first wife of Robert “The Jinx” Durst, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him, and now is seeking also to freeze his assets, estimated to be worth about $100 million.

The move is designed to prevent the real estate heir from ducking the civil lawsuit, reports the New York Post. Durst infamously starred in an HBO documentary series, called ”The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” about his alleged involvement in Kathie Durst’s disappearance in South Salem in 1982, and other fatal crimes.

“Because of his decades’ long history as a serial criminal, his persistent defiance of court orders and his repeated deceptive acts and misrepresentations to courts … Robert Durst is the poster child for why courts order prejudgment attachments and restrain defendants from disposing of assets,” the court filing states, as reported by the Post.

Durst was arrested earlier in the year in New Orleans on weapons charges. He is currently in jail there awaiting extradition to California where he faces murder charges in the killing of former friend Susan Berman.

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

Photo: Robert Durst. Photo credit: HBO