Judge to Durst: Pay investigator

REAL ESTATE heir Robert Durst must cough up $164,632 — plus interest — to an investigative firm he hired after his arrest in a California murder case, a judge ruled.

Durst, who is awaiting trial in Los Angeles for slaying 2014 — after noticing her struggling to friend and journalist Susan Berman in 2000, hired T&M Protection Resources to work on his defense.

T&M sued him in Manhattan Supreme Court in March 2017, claiming that Durst still owes for investigative services, which cost as much as $450 per hour. Court papers say Durst also inked a $25,000 retainer agreement with the firm.

Supreme Court Justice John Kelley — who said in a recent court hearing he didn’t know who Durst is — decided that the disgraced real estate scion’s lawyers failed to show why T&M should not be paid.

Durst “has failed to raise an issue of fact as to the performance and reasonable value of (T&M)’s services,” Kelley wrote in his ruling this week.

Durst’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. T&M’s lawyer declined to comment.

Durst, 75, is awaiting trial in Los Angeles in Berman’s murder.