Durst has COVID, is on a ventilator
Millionaire and former real estate mogul Robert Durst, 78, is on a ventilator in a Los Angeles hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, days after being sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of his confidant.
“We were notified that he tested positive for COVID,” his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said Saturday.
Durst was admitted Friday night to LAC+USC Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department’s inmate locator.
“His health deteriorated over the weeks of the trial,” DeGuerin said. “On Thursday, he looked like death warmed over.”
Durst was frail and had numerous health problems but was alert during the four-month trial that ended Sept. 17 with a firstdegree murder conviction. Durst will not be eligible for parole.