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Susan Berman
Susan Berman
Born	Susan Jane Berman; May 18, 1945; Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	December 23, 2000 (aged 55); Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Home of Peace Cemetery
Occupation	Journalist, author
Language	English
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.); University of California, Berkeley (M.A.)
Genre	Fiction, nonfiction
Subject	American Mafia, Las Vegas
Notable works	Easy Street
Spouse	Christopher ("Mister") Margulies (divorced)
Children	2
Relatives	Davie Berman (father)

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Susan Jane Berman (May 18, 1945 – December 23, 2000) was an American journalist and author. The daughter of mobster David Berman, she wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in organized crime.^[1]

In 2000, Berman was found murdered in her home. The case went unsolved for more than a decade, until real-estate heir Robert Durst, Berman's longtime friend and confidant, was charged with her murder in 2015 and convicted in 2021.

Early life

Susan Berman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1945, the only child of the former Betty Ewald, a traveling dancer who had adopted the stage name Gladys Evans,^[2] and David "Davie" Berman. Berman always maintained that her father—a major Jewish-American organized crime figure who took over the Flamingo Hotel after Bugsy Siegel's 1947 gangland murder—died under mysterious circumstances on an operating table when she was 12, but all indications are that he died of a heart attack during surgery.^[3] She also believed uncertainty surrounded her mother's presumed suicide by overdose a year later.

Berman grew up in Las Vegas^[1] and, later, in Hollywood, California, where her classmates and friends at the Chadwick School^[4] included Jann Wenner and Liza Minnelli.^[5] Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met American real estate heir Robert Durst. In 1969, she graduated with a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.^[6] Berman was gradually paid a total of $4.3 million by the Mafia for her father's interests in casinos and other properties.^[7]

Career

Berman was a novelist and author of two memoirs, along with a 1971 college guidebook, The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice. Her first memoir, Easy Street, detailed her life as a mobster's daughter. While representing her in the 1970s, the William Morris Agency talked with several Hollywood producers interested in adapting the book into a screenplay. The movie rights were ultimately sold for $350,000, but no film project ever materialized.^[8] For a time, Berman attempted to finance a musical based on the Dreyfus affair, in which Durst declined to invest.^[5]

In San Francisco, Berman wrote for media outlets including the San Francisco Examiner,^[9] Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine, the Westinghouse Evening Show on KPIX-TV, and the People show on CBS. She was a contributing writer for magazines such as New York,^[10] Cosmopolitan and Family Circle. She also wrote Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift! and Lady Las Vegas, accompanying the 1996 release of an A&E documentary, for which she was a co-writer and nominated for a Writers Guild of America award.^[11]

At the time of her death, Berman was working on a project for Showtime with attorney Kevin Norte. Entitled Sin City, it was being planned as Showtime's answer to the HBO hit The Sopranos.

Personal life

Berman lived just off the Sunset Strip on Alta Loma Road in West Hollywood for several years prior to her final residence in Benedict Canyon, in Los Angeles. Her manager, Nyle Brenner, later told the Los Angeles Times that "many details of Ms. Berman's personal life are unclear" and added "she had been married once in the 1980s, and later helped rear the two children of a boyfriend." Berman was married to Christopher "Mister" Margulies, in June 1984 at the Hotel Bel-Air; Durst walked Berman down the aisle.^[8]^[12] Margulies died of a heroin overdose in 1986.^[13] Berman kept close ties to friends on Alta Loma Road, at the Las Vegas Strip, and in New York City, including Durst.

Murder

Berman was found murdered, execution style with a 9mm handgun, on Christmas Eve 2000 in her rented Benedict Canyon home, and was presumed to have been dead at least one day.^[13]

On March 14, 2015, Durst was arrested in New Orleans on a first-degree murder warrant, issued out of Los Angeles. Although his presumed victim was not immediately named by authorities, the Los Angeles Times first reported that he had been detained in connection to Berman's slaying.^[14] Three days after his arrest, Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey said that, if convicted, Durst could face the death penalty in California for "special circumstances of murder of a witness and lying in wait."^[15] Durst was transferred to California and arraigned there in early November 2016.^[16]

Multiple accounts, including Murder of a Mafia Daughter by Cathy Scott, have reported possible connections between Berman's murder and the 1982 disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst.^[1] Berman became a confidante of Durst^[2] at UCLA in the late 1960s,^[13] and came to know McCormack after later moving to New York.^[17] In a review of Scott's book, True Crime Zine suggested that "detectives came to suspect one of [Berman's] longtime friends, but have never been able to charge him with murder."^[18] Durst was also considered a prime suspect in his wife's disappearance and, many years after she was last seen, was eventually charged in the case.^[19]

Berman initially acted as a media spokesperson for Durst, and is believed to have facilitated his public alibi.^[8]^[9] In 1982, she provided the case with a deposition, a copy of which Durst faxed to investigators after her murder.^[20] Berman had remained Durst's friend and received two large cash gifts totaling $50,000 from him in the months before her death; she had last written to Durst on November 5, 2000, expressing hope that her financial entreaties would not ruin their friendship.^[13]^[20]^[21] Earlier in 2000, the New York State Police, at the request of then-Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, had reopened an investigation into Kathleen's disappearance, and was urged by the missing woman's friends, without apparent success, to contact Berman for an interview.^[21] Berman was killed weeks after the reopened investigation was publicized.^[21]

Durst's 2015 arrest warrant mentioned a previously undisclosed typewritten letter, mailed from New York on January 9, 2001, to a West Los Angeles police station, titled, "Possible motive for Susan Berman murder." The letter said Berman suspected Durst had been involved in his wife's disappearance,^[22] and specified that Durst was planning to visit her in late December.^[20] On September 17, 2021, Durst was convicted of Berman's murder and, several weeks later, was sentenced to life in prison. Four months after the conviction, he died in prison.^[23]

Berman is interred at Home of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles, California.^[24]

Books

Nonfiction

The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice (Signet, 1971), ISBN 0451078373
Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family (The Dial Press, 1981), ISBN 978-0385271851
Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Behind America's Neon Oasis (TV Books, 1996), ISBN 978-1575000206

Fiction

Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift (Putnam, 1976), ISBN 978-0399117046
Fly Away Home (Avon Books, 1996), ISBN 978-0380781799
Spiderweb (Avon Books, 1997), ISBN 978-0380781805

In popular culture

In the 2010 film All Good Things, the character Deborah Lehrman, portrayed by Lily Rabe, is inspired by Susan Berman. The film depicts Lehrman being murdered by the character Malvern Bump, who is inspired by Morris Black. It is implied that Bump murders Lehrman on the orders of David Marks, inspired by Durst, in order to prevent her from revealing incriminating information about Marks.

The story of Susan Berman's suspicious death and suspected murder was covered by a CBS News Productions documentary series 48 Hours, Season 29, Episode 19, "Murder 90210", release date January 30, 2016 (USA).

The case was the basis for the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Maledictus".

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Rake, Launce (March 16, 2015). "Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history". The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Paul Walsh (March 18, 2015). "Robert Durst confidante Susan Berman was only child of Twin Cities mobster". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
^ "Minnesota history: Recent arrest brings to life a Minneapolis mobster". startribune.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
^ Scott, Cathy (June 16, 2019). Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman. Barricade Books. ISBN 9781569802380 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Ned Zeman (February 2002). "The Fugitive Heir". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
^ "Susan Berman". Online Nevada Encyclopedia. March 20, 2009. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^ Tom Hawley. "Video Vault - Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 1". mynews3.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Carolyn Kellogg (March 17, 2015). "The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Kevin Fagan (March 16, 2015). "Durst case slaying victim had titillating Bay Area history". SFGate. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
^ Susan Berman (November 14, 1977). "Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer". New York. Archived from the original on January 7, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^ "Mobster's Kin Killed: Writer was daughter of Bugsy's partner". January 5, 2001. Retrieved December 14, 2012.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Charles V. Bagli, Vivian Yee (March 15, 2015). "On HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d DePaulo, Lisa (March 12, 2001). "Who Killed the Gangster's Daughter?". New York. Archived from the original on July 17, 2006.
^ Richard Winton, Matt Hamilton and Shelby Grad (March 15, 2015). "Robert Durst arrested in slaying of L.A. writer". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 8, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
^ John Bacon and William M. Welch (March 17, 2015). "Prosecutors charge Durst with murder; death penalty possible". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^ "Robert Durst arrives in L.A. to face murder trial; first court appearance is Monday". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 2016. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
^ Book Probes New Evidence in Mob Daughter's Murder | Psychology Today
^ "Susan Berman book: Murder in Beverly Hills by Cathy Scott | True Crime Zine". Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
^ "Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife Kathie Durst". NBC News. November 2021. Archived from the original on May 8, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Search Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston Home". Los Angeles Times (link to online public document). March 18, 2015. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Andrew Gumbel (March 29, 2015). "Did Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
^ Andrew Blankstein and Hannah Rappleye (March 18, 2015). "Robert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When Arrested". NBC News. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
^ "Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78". Associated Press. January 10, 2022. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022 – via NPR.
^ Lisa DePaulo (February 6, 2015). "Who killed the gangster's daughter?". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on November 13, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.

External links

This American Life episode 76: "Mob"; linked RealAudio file includes a reading by Berman from Easy Street.
Homicide Special: A year with LAPD's Elite Detective Unit, Miles Corwin (2003) Chapter 14
Scott, Cathy (February 2004). "Cold Case: Who Killed Susan Berman?". Las Vegas CityLife. Archived from the original on September 27, 2004.
A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst (2003) by Matt Birkbeck
Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman (2002) by Cathy Scott
Susan Berman at Find a Grave

[MobMuseum-1] Rake, Launce (March 16, 2015). "Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history". The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum. Retrieved October 9, 2024.

[StarTribune-2] Paul Walsh (March 18, 2015). "Robert Durst confidante Susan Berman was only child of Twin Cities mobster". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

[3] "Minnesota history: Recent arrest brings to life a Minneapolis mobster". startribune.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.

[4] Scott, Cathy (June 16, 2019). Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman. Barricade Books. ISBN 9781569802380 – via Google Books.

[VanityFair-5] Ned Zeman (February 2002). "The Fugitive Heir". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.

[Online_Nevada-6] "Susan Berman". Online Nevada Encyclopedia. March 20, 2009. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.

[7] Tom Hawley. "Video Vault - Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 1". mynews3.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015.

[LATimesLiterary-8] Carolyn Kellogg (March 17, 2015). "The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.

[SFGate-9] Kevin Fagan (March 16, 2015). "Durst case slaying victim had titillating Bay Area history". SFGate. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

[BermanInterview-10] Susan Berman (November 14, 1977). "Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer". New York. Archived from the original on January 7, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

[11] "Mobster's Kin Killed: Writer was daughter of Bugsy's partner". January 5, 2001. Retrieved December 14, 2012.^{[dead link‍]}

[TimesJinx-12] Charles V. Bagli, Vivian Yee (March 15, 2015). "On HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.

[New_York_Magazine-13] DePaulo, Lisa (March 12, 2001). "Who Killed the Gangster's Daughter?". New York. Archived from the original on July 17, 2006.

[LATDurstArrest-14] Richard Winton, Matt Hamilton and Shelby Grad (March 15, 2015). "Robert Durst arrested in slaying of L.A. writer". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 8, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2015.

[USATodayDeathPenalty-15] John Bacon and William M. Welch (March 17, 2015). "Prosecutors charge Durst with murder; death penalty possible". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

[16] "Robert Durst arrives in L.A. to face murder trial; first court appearance is Monday". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 2016. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.

[17] Book Probes New Evidence in Mob Daughter's Murder | Psychology Today

[18] "Susan Berman book: Murder in Beverly Hills by Cathy Scott | True Crime Zine". Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2014.

[19] "Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife Kathie Durst". NBC News. November 2021. Archived from the original on May 8, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022.

[LATHoustonSearch-20] "Search Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston Home". Los Angeles Times (link to online public document). March 18, 2015. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.

[GuardianPirro-21] Andrew Gumbel (March 29, 2015). "Did Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.

[NBCflightrisk-22] Andrew Blankstein and Hannah Rappleye (March 18, 2015). "Robert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When Arrested". NBC News. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

[23] "Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78". Associated Press. January 10, 2022. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022 – via NPR.

[24] Lisa DePaulo (February 6, 2015). "Who killed the gangster's daughter?". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on November 13, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.

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-'''Susan Jane Berman''' (May 18, 1945&nbsp;– December 23, 2000) was an American journalist and author. The daughter of mobster [[David Berman (mobster)|David Berman]], she wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in organized crime.
+'''Susan Jane Berman''' (May 18, 1945&nbsp;– December 23, 2000) was an American journalist and author. The daughter of mobster [[David Berman (mobster)|David Berman]], she wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in organized crime.<ref name="MobMuseum">{{cite web |last1=Rake |first1=Launce |title=Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history |url=https://themobmuseum.org/blog/arrest-in-beverly-hills-murder-has-ties-to-las-vegas-mob-history/ |website=The Mob Museum |publisher=The Mob Museum |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=16 March 2015}}</ref>
 In 2000, Berman was found murdered in her home. The case went unsolved for more than a decade, until real-estate heir [[Robert Durst]], Berman's longtime friend and confidant, was charged with her murder in 2015 and convicted in 2021.
 ==Early life==
-Susan Berman was born in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], in 1945, the only child of the former Betty Ewald, a traveling dancer who had adopted the stage name Gladys Evans,<ref name="StarTribune">{{cite news|title=Robert Durst confidante Susan Berman was only child of Twin Cities mobster|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|author=Paul Walsh|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[[Star Tribune]]|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402202214/http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[David Berman (mobster)|David "Davie" Berman]]. Berman always maintained that her father—a major [[Jewish-American organized crime]] figure, who took over [[Las Vegas|Las Vegas's]] [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo Hotel]] after [[Bugsy Siegel]]'s 1947 gangland murder — died under mysterious circumstances on an operating table when she was twelve, but all indications were that he died of a [[heart attack]] during surgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|title=Minnesota history: Recent arrest brings to life a Minneapolis mobster|work=startribune.com|access-date=2015-03-29|archive-date=2015-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403005416/http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She also believed uncertainty surrounded her mother's presumed [[suicide]] by overdose a year later.
+Susan Berman was born in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], in 1945, the only child of the former Betty Ewald, a traveling dancer who had adopted the stage name Gladys Evans,<ref name="StarTribune">{{cite news|title=Robert Durst confidante Susan Berman was only child of Twin Cities mobster|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|author=Paul Walsh|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[[Star Tribune]]|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402202214/http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[David Berman (mobster)|David "Davie" Berman]]. Berman always maintained that her father—a major [[Jewish-American organized crime]] figure who took over the [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo Hotel]] after [[Bugsy Siegel]]'s 1947 gangland murder—died under mysterious circumstances on an operating table when she was 12, but all indications are that he died of a heart attack during surgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|title=Minnesota history: Recent arrest brings to life a Minneapolis mobster|work=startribune.com|access-date=March 29, 2015|archive-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403005416/http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She also believed uncertainty surrounded her mother's presumed suicide by overdose a year later.
-Berman grew up in Las Vegas and, later, in [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]], [[California]], where high school classmates and friends at the [[Chadwick School]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqrb1crUNTwC&q=%22susan+berman%22+%22chadwick+school%22+%22murder+of+a+mafia+daughter%22|title=Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman|first=Cathy|last=Scott|date=16 June 2019|publisher=Barricade Books|isbn=9781569802380|via=Google Books}}</ref> included [[Jann Wenner]] and [[Liza Minnelli]].<ref name="VanityFair">{{cite news|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|title=The Fugitive Heir|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=February 2002|access-date=March 17, 2015|author=Ned Zeman|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317003124/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|url-status=live}}</ref> Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA), where she met American real estate heir [[Robert Durst]]. In 1969, she graduated with a Master of Arts in [[journalism]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Online Nevada">{{cite web |url=http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |title=Susan Berman |publisher=Online Nevada Encyclopedia |date=2009-03-20 |access-date=2012-12-14 |archive-date=2012-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214070050/http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |url-status=live }}</ref> Berman was gradually paid a total of $4.3 million by the [[American Mafia|Mafia]] for her father's interests in [[casino]]s and other properties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|title=Video Vault - Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 1|author=Tom Hawley|work=mynews3.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321162452/http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|archive-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
+Berman grew up in Las Vegas<ref name="MobMuseum"/> and, later, in [[Hollywood, California]], where her classmates and friends at the [[Chadwick School]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqrb1crUNTwC&q=%22susan+berman%22+%22chadwick+school%22+%22murder+of+a+mafia+daughter%22|title=Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman|first=Cathy|last=Scott|date=June 16, 2019|publisher=Barricade Books|isbn=9781569802380|via=Google Books}}</ref> included [[Jann Wenner]] and [[Liza Minnelli]].<ref name="VanityFair">{{cite news|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|title=The Fugitive Heir|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=February 2002|access-date=March 17, 2015|author=Ned Zeman|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317003124/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|url-status=live}}</ref> Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], where she met American real estate heir [[Robert Durst]]. In 1969, she graduated with a Master of Arts in journalism from the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Online Nevada">{{cite web |url=http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |title=Susan Berman |publisher=Online Nevada Encyclopedia |date=March 20, 2009 |access-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214070050/http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |url-status=live }}</ref> Berman was gradually paid a total of $4.3 million by the [[American Mafia|Mafia]] for her father's interests in casinos and other properties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|title=Video Vault - Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 1|author=Tom Hawley|work=mynews3.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321162452/http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|archive-date=March 21, 2015}}</ref>
 ==Career==
 Berman was a novelist and author of two [[memoir]]s, along with a 1971 college guidebook, ''The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice.'' Her first memoir, ''[[Easy Street (book)|Easy Street]]'', detailed her life as a mobster's daughter. While representing her in the 1970s, the [[William Morris Endeavor|William Morris Agency]] talked with several Hollywood producers interested in adapting the book into a [[screenplay]]. The movie rights were ultimately sold for $350,000, but no film project ever materialized.<ref name="LATimesLiterary">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-literary-life-and-death-of-susan-berman-robert-durst-victim-20150316-story.html|title=The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim|access-date=March 17, 2015|date=March 17, 2015|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Carolyn Kellogg|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317143541/http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-literary-life-and-death-of-susan-berman-robert-durst-victim-20150316-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For a time, Berman attempted to finance a musical based on the [[Dreyfus affair]], in which Durst declined to invest.<ref name="VanityFair"/>
-In [[San Francisco]], Berman wrote for media outlets including the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'',<ref name="SFGate"/> [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''City Magazine'', the ''[[Westinghouse Broadcasting|Westinghouse Evening Show]]'' on [[KPIX-TV]], and the ''People'' show on [[CBS]]. She was a contributing writer for magazines such as ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'',<ref name="BermanInterview">{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|date=November 14, 1977|access-date=March 18, 2015|author=Susan Berman|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|title=Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer|archive-date=January 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107194848/http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' and ''[[Family Circle]]''. She also wrote ''Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift!'' and ''Lady Las Vegas'', accompanying the 1996 release of an [[A&E Network|A&E]] documentary, for which she was a co-writer and nominated for a [[Writers Guild of America]] award.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-01-05/news/18178471_1_david-berman-bugsy-siegel-writers-guild |title=Mobster's Kin Killed: Writer was daughter of Bugsy's partner |date=5 January 2001 |access-date=2012-12-14}}</ref>
+In [[San Francisco]], Berman wrote for media outlets including the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'',<ref name="SFGate"/> [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''City Magazine'', the ''[[Westinghouse Broadcasting|Westinghouse Evening Show]]'' on [[KPIX-TV]], and the ''People'' show on [[CBS]]. She was a contributing writer for magazines such as ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'',<ref name="BermanInterview">{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|date=November 14, 1977|access-date=March 18, 2015|author=Susan Berman|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|title=Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer|archive-date=January 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107194848/http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' and ''[[Family Circle]]''. She also wrote ''Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift!'' and ''Lady Las Vegas'', accompanying the 1996 release of an [[A&E Network|A&E]] documentary, for which she was a co-writer and nominated for a [[Writers Guild of America]] award.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-01-05/news/18178471_1_david-berman-bugsy-siegel-writers-guild |title=Mobster's Kin Killed: Writer was daughter of Bugsy's partner |date=January 5, 2001 |access-date=December 14, 2012}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
 At the time of her death, Berman was working on a project for [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] with attorney [[Kevin and Don Norte#Kevin Norte|Kevin Norte]]. Entitled ''Sin City,'' it was being planned as Showtime's answer to the [[HBO]] hit ''[[The Sopranos]]''.
 ==Personal life==
-Berman lived just off the [[Sunset Strip]] on Alta Loma Road in [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] for several years prior to her final residence in [[Benedict Canyon]], in [[Los Angeles]]. Her manager, Nyle Brenner, later told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' that "many details of Ms. Berman's personal life are unclear" and added "she had been married once in the 1980s, and later helped rear the two children of a boyfriend." Berman was married to Christopher "Mister" Margulies, in June 1984 at the [[Hotel Bel-Air]]; Durst walked Berman down the aisle.<ref name="LATimesLiterary"/><ref name="TimesJinx">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|title=On HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|author=Charles V. Bagli, Vivian Yee|date=March 15, 2015|access-date=March 15, 2015|archive-date=March 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321232039/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Margulies died of a [[heroin]] overdose in 1986.<ref name="New York Magazine"/> Berman kept close ties to friends on Alta Loma Road, at the [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas Strip,]] and in [[New York City]], including Durst.
+Berman lived just off the [[Sunset Strip]] on Alta Loma Road in [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] for several years prior to her final residence in [[Benedict Canyon]], in [[Los Angeles]]. Her manager, Nyle Brenner, later told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' that "many details of Ms. Berman's personal life are unclear" and added "she had been married once in the 1980s, and later helped rear the two children of a boyfriend." Berman was married to Christopher "Mister" Margulies, in June 1984 at the [[Hotel Bel-Air]]; Durst walked Berman down the aisle.<ref name="LATimesLiterary"/><ref name="TimesJinx">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|title=On HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|author=Charles V. Bagli, Vivian Yee|date=March 15, 2015|access-date=March 15, 2015|archive-date=March 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321232039/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Margulies died of a [[heroin]] overdose in 1986.<ref name="New York Magazine"/> Berman kept close ties to friends on Alta Loma Road, at the [[Las Vegas Strip]], and in [[New York City]], including Durst.
 ==Murder==
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 On March 14, 2015, Durst was arrested in [[New Orleans]] on a [[first-degree murder]] warrant, issued out of Los Angeles. Although his presumed victim was not immediately named by authorities, the ''Los Angeles Times'' first reported that he had been detained in connection to Berman's slaying.<ref name="LATDurstArrest">{{cite news| author =Richard Winton, Matt Hamilton and Shelby Grad| title =Robert Durst arrested in slaying of L.A. writer| newspaper =[[Los Angeles Times]]| date =March 15, 2015| url =http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-arrested-in-la-murder-case-20150315-story.html| accessdate =March 15, 2015| archive-date =September 8, 2019| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190908022237/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-arrested-in-la-murder-case-20150315-story.html| url-status =live}}</ref> Three days after his arrest, Los Angeles District Attorney [[Jackie Lacey]] said that, if convicted, Durst could face the [[death penalty]] in California for "special circumstances of murder of a witness and lying in wait."<ref name="USATodayDeathPenalty">{{cite news|title=Prosecutors charge Durst with murder; death penalty possible|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/durst-hbo-murder-hearing/24837005/|date=March 17, 2015|access-date=March 18, 2015|author=John Bacon and William M. Welch|work=[[USA Today]]|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317143809/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/durst-hbo-murder-hearing/24837005/|url-status=live}}</ref> Durst was transferred to California and [[arraignment|arraigned]] there in early November 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-murder-trial-20161104-story.html|title=Robert Durst arrives in L.A. to face murder trial; first court appearance is Monday|date=November 5, 2016|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 28, 2022|archive-date=February 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228212823/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-murder-trial-20161104-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Multiple accounts, including ''[[Murder in Beverly Hills|Murder of a Mafia Daughter]]'' by [[Cathy Scott]], have reported possible connections between Berman's murder and the 1982 disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst. Berman became a confidante of Durst<ref name="StarTribune"/> at UCLA in the late 1960s,<ref name="New York Magazine"/> and came to know McCormack after later moving to New York.<ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crime-she-writes/201311/book-probes-new-evidence-in-mob-daughters-murder Book Probes New Evidence in Mob Daughter's Murder | ''Psychology Today''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In a review of Scott's book, ''True Crime Zine'' suggested that "detectives came to suspect one of [Berman's] longtime friends, but have never been able to charge him with murder."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |title=Susan Berman book: Murder in Beverly Hills by Cathy Scott {{!}} ''True Crime Zine''<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2014-01-16 |archive-date=2014-01-16 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140116040806/http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Durst was also considered a [[prime suspect]] in his wife's disappearance and, many years after she was last seen, was eventually charged in the case.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|title=Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife Kathie Durst|website=NBC News|date=November 2021 |access-date=2022-05-08|archive-date=2022-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508193539/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Multiple accounts, including ''[[Murder in Beverly Hills|Murder of a Mafia Daughter]]'' by [[Cathy Scott]], have reported possible connections between Berman's murder and the 1982 disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst.<ref name="MobMuseum"/> Berman became a confidante of Durst<ref name="StarTribune"/> at UCLA in the late 1960s,<ref name="New York Magazine"/> and came to know McCormack after later moving to New York.<ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crime-she-writes/201311/book-probes-new-evidence-in-mob-daughters-murder Book Probes New Evidence in Mob Daughter's Murder | ''Psychology Today''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In a review of Scott's book, ''True Crime Zine'' suggested that "detectives came to suspect one of [Berman's] longtime friends, but have never been able to charge him with murder."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |title=Susan Berman book: Murder in Beverly Hills by Cathy Scott {{!}} ''True Crime Zine''<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140116040806/http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Durst was also considered a [[prime suspect]] in his wife's disappearance and, many years after she was last seen, was eventually charged in the case.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|title=Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife Kathie Durst|website=NBC News|date=November 2021 |access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=May 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508193539/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Berman initially acted as a media spokesperson for Durst, and is believed to have facilitated his public [[alibi]].<ref name="LATimesLiterary"/><ref name="SFGate">{{cite news|author=Kevin Fagan|title=Durst case slaying victim had titillating Bay Area history|url=http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|date=March 16, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[[SFGate]]|archive-date=March 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319043731/http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1982, she provided the case with a [[Deposition (law)|deposition]], a copy of which Durst faxed to investigators after her murder.<ref name="LATHoustonSearch">{{cite news|url=http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|title=Search Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston Home|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] (link to online public document)|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 20, 2015|archive-date=March 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320063913/http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|url-status=live}}</ref> Berman had remained Durst's friend and received two large cash gifts totaling $50,000 from him in the months before her death; she had last written to Durst on November 5, 2000, expressing hope that her financial entreaties would not ruin their friendship.<ref name="New York Magazine">{{cite magazine |first=Lisa |last=DePaulo |url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |title=Who Killed the Gangster's Daughter? |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=March 12, 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717175033/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |archive-date=July 17, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="LATHoustonSearch"/><ref name="GuardianPirro">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|title=Did Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?|date=March 29, 2015|access-date=March 29, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|author=Andrew Gumbel|archive-date=March 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330111753/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|url-status=live}}</ref> Earlier in 2000, the [[New York State Police]], at the request of then-[[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] [[District Attorney]] [[Jeanine Pirro]], had reopened an investigation into Kathleen's disappearance, and was urged by the missing woman's friends, without apparent success, to contact Berman for an interview.<ref name="GuardianPirro"/> Berman was killed weeks after the re-opened investigation was publicized.<ref name="GuardianPirro"/>
+Berman initially acted as a media spokesperson for Durst, and is believed to have facilitated his public [[alibi]].<ref name="LATimesLiterary"/><ref name="SFGate">{{cite news|author=Kevin Fagan|title=Durst case slaying victim had titillating Bay Area history|url=http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|date=March 16, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[[SFGate]]|archive-date=March 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319043731/http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1982, she provided the case with a [[Deposition (law)|deposition]], a copy of which Durst faxed to investigators after her murder.<ref name="LATHoustonSearch">{{cite news|url=http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|title=Search Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston Home|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] (link to online public document)|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 20, 2015|archive-date=March 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320063913/http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|url-status=live}}</ref> Berman had remained Durst's friend and received two large cash gifts totaling $50,000 from him in the months before her death; she had last written to Durst on November 5, 2000, expressing hope that her financial entreaties would not ruin their friendship.<ref name="New York Magazine">{{cite magazine |first=Lisa |last=DePaulo |url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |title=Who Killed the Gangster's Daughter? |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=March 12, 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717175033/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |archive-date=July 17, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="LATHoustonSearch"/><ref name="GuardianPirro">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|title=Did Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?|date=March 29, 2015|access-date=March 29, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|author=Andrew Gumbel|archive-date=March 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330111753/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|url-status=live}}</ref> Earlier in 2000, the [[New York State Police]], at the request of then-[[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] [[District Attorney]] [[Jeanine Pirro]], had reopened an investigation into Kathleen's disappearance, and was urged by the missing woman's friends, without apparent success, to contact Berman for an interview.<ref name="GuardianPirro"/> Berman was killed weeks after the reopened investigation was publicized.<ref name="GuardianPirro"/>
-Durst's 2015 arrest warrant mentioned a previously undisclosed typewritten letter, mailed from New York on January 9, 2001 to a [[West Los Angeles]] police station, titled, "Possible motive for Susan Berman murder." The letter said Berman suspected Durst had been involved in his wife's disappearance,<ref name="NBCflightrisk">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|work=[[NBC News]]|author=Andrew Blankstein and Hannah Rappleye|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|title=Robert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When Arrested|archive-date=March 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318212054/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|url-status=live}}</ref> and specified that Durst was planning to visit her in late December.<ref name="LATHoustonSearch"/> On September 17, 2021, Durst was finally convicted of Berman's murder and,  several weeks later, was sentenced to life in prison. Four months after the conviction, he died in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|title=Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78|agency=Associated Press|date=January 10, 2022|via=NPR|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=April 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418221813/https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Durst's 2015 arrest warrant mentioned a previously undisclosed typewritten letter, mailed from New York on January 9, 2001, to a [[West Los Angeles]] police station, titled, "Possible motive for Susan Berman murder." The letter said Berman suspected Durst had been involved in his wife's disappearance,<ref name="NBCflightrisk">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|work=[[NBC News]]|author=Andrew Blankstein and Hannah Rappleye|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|title=Robert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When Arrested|archive-date=March 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318212054/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|url-status=live}}</ref> and specified that Durst was planning to visit her in late December.<ref name="LATHoustonSearch"/> On September 17, 2021, Durst was convicted of Berman's murder and,  several weeks later, was sentenced to life in prison. Four months after the conviction, he died in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|title=Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78|agency=Associated Press|date=January 10, 2022|via=NPR|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=April 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418221813/https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Berman is interred at [[Home of Peace Memorial Park]] in [[East Los Angeles, California]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Who killed the gangster's daughter?|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|website=New York Magazine|access-date=12 November 2018|author=Lisa DePaulo|date=6 February 2015 |archive-date=13 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165717/https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Berman is interred at [[Home of Peace Memorial Park]] in [[East Los Angeles, California]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Who killed the gangster's daughter?|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|website=New York Magazine|access-date=November 12, 2018|author=Lisa DePaulo|date=February 6, 2015 |archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165717/https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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 ==In popular culture==
-In the 2010 film ''[[All Good Things (film)|All Good Things]]'', the character Deborah Lehrman, portrayed by [[Lily Rabe]], is inspired by Susan Berman. The film depicts Lehrman being murdered by the character Malvern Bump, who is inspired by [[Robert Durst#Killing and dismemberment of Morris Black|Morris Black]]. It is implied that Bump murders Lehrman on the orders of David Marks, inspired by Durst, in order to prevent her from revealing incriminating information about Marks.
+In the 2010 film ''[[All Good Things (film)|All Good Things]]'', the character Deborah Lehrman, portrayed by [[Lily Rabe]], is inspired by Susan Berman. The film depicts Lehrman being murdered by the character Malvern Bump, who is inspired by [[Killing of Morris Black|Morris Black]]. It is implied that Bump murders Lehrman on the orders of David Marks, inspired by Durst, in order to prevent her from revealing incriminating information about Marks.
-The story of Susan Berman's suspicious death and suspected murder was covered by a CBS News Productions documentary series ''[[48 Hours (TV program)|48 Hours]]'', Season 29, Episode 19, "Murder 90210", release date 30 January 2016 (USA).
+The story of Susan Berman's suspicious death and suspected murder was covered by a CBS News Productions documentary series ''[[48 Hours (TV program)|48 Hours]]'', Season 29, Episode 19, "Murder 90210", release date January 30, 2016 (USA).
 The case was the basis for the ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "Maledictus".
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 *''[[This American Life]]'' [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/76/mob/act-two-6 episode 76: "Mob"]; linked [[RealAudio]] file includes a reading by Berman from ''Easy Street''.
 *[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805076948 Homicide Special: A year with LAPD's Elite Detective Unit, Miles Corwin (2003) Chapter 14]
-*{{cite web |url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |title=Cold Case: Who Killed Susan Berman? |first=Cathy |last=Scott |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=February 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040927202211/http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |archive-date=2004-09-27 }}
+*{{cite web |url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |title=Cold Case: Who Killed Susan Berman? |first=Cathy |last=Scott |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=February 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040927202211/http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |archive-date=September 27, 2004 }}
 *''[[A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst]]'' (2003) by [[Matt Birkbeck]]
 *''[[Murder of a Mafia Daughter|Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman]]'' (2002) by [[Cathy Scott]]
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