DURST ATT’Y OOPS
Slips up in bid to wipe out remarks
These guys were obviously made for each other.
A lawyer for millionaire murder defendant Robert Durst — infamously caught confessing how he “killed them all” in an HBO docu-documentaryy — inadvertently re-revealed, viavia poorly redacted court papers, how Durst tried to dig up dirt on the documentary director.
As partart of a Manhattan Su-Supreme Court case over $130,000 that Durst ur st allegedly owes apr i-pr ivat e-investigation vestig at io n firm, attorney Gerald Allen filed a printout of an e-mail from longtime Durst law-lawyer Chipp Lewis to plaintiff T&M Protectionion Resources.
Allen used a blue pen in a bid to obscuree key details in the Feb. 11, 2016, message,essage, in which Lewis of-offered T&M “$50k” in exchange for variousous information.
But thehe ink failed to hide the words underneath, showing that one thinging Lewis wanted was, “Your files on Jarecki/Smerling and the production company Hit the Groundund Running.”
The request is an obvious referencece to Andrew Jarecki, who directedrected HBO’s hit 2015 miniseriesies “The Jinx: The Life andd Deaths of Robert Durst,” co-writer Marc Smerlingng and their former joint venture.nture.
Allen was also unable to conceal that Lewis wanted “all of the cli-client’s emailmail you were able to retain/re-recover” andand “all things Gior-Giordano — rec-records ofof communi-nications with ourur client (calls, emails, texts, etc.) All of the documents you received form [sic] her.”
“Giordano” apparently refers to Durst pal Susan Giordano, who stored boxes full of his belongings at her Hudson Valley home and allowed “The Jinx” producers to rifle through them before cops seized the stash in 2015.
The final episode of “The Jinx” featured the eccentric Manhattan real-estate scion muttering to himself on a hot microphone: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” Durst’s first wife, Kathie Durst, disap- peared in 1982 and her body has never been found, and he has been charged in two slayings since then.
He admitted killing Texas neighbor Morris Black — whose dismembered body was found in Galveston Bay in 2001 — but beat a murder rap by claimclaiming it was self-defense.
Durst, 74, currently fafaces trial in Los Angeles in the execexecution-style slaying of pal Susan BermBerman, whom he allegedly killed to keekeep her quiet about his wife’s di sap pea disappearance.
Durst — who denies aany role in either incident — was ccharged in the Berman case shortlyshortl after the final episode of “The JiJinx” aired.
Jarecki said he was uunaware he had been the tar ge too fa Durstfunded funded investigation, but declined c lined toc om mentfu further because cause“we will have to testify” at Durst’s upcoming murdmurder trial.
Smerling, however, said he wasn’t surprised that DuDurst “hired private investigators to gather information about us.”
Allen and Lewis diddidn’t return requests for comment, but T&M lawyer Vincent AmiAmicizia said he couldn’t fathom wwhy Durst — who claims the pprivate eyes overbilled him — won’t just pay up.