Robert Durst, millionaire convicted of murdering writer Susan Berman in the head, dies

• Trial Life sentence for millionaire Robert Durst for killing his best friend, the writer Susan Berman

American millionaire

died on Monday at the age of 78, just three months after a

court sentenced him to life in prison for the murder of writer Susan Berman by a shot to the head in 2000.

His lawyer

confirmed to local media that Durst died in a California hospital due to cardiorespiratory arrest.

The businessman, also accused of the disappearance of his wife and the murder of one of his neighbors, had already been hospitalized last October for

just two days after being convicted.

Durst, 78, was the heir to one of the richest families in

, which became rich thanks to the real estate business, although in 1994 his father chose his younger brother Douglas to take over the family business.

His story is told in the HBO documentary series 'The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst', a program directed by

that Durst himself proposed, eager that someone would let him tell his life.

The life sentence against him was confirmed last September, a month after a popular jury found the businessman guilty of a crime of murder for which he was formally charged in 2015, although Durst was already a

that they go back more than three decades.

According to the verdict, Durst shot Berman, with whom he maintained a friendship, at his home in

(USA) as the woman had witnessed another crime allegedly committed by him.

Berman died before telling investigators what he knew about the disappearance of

, Durst's ex-wife who has been missing since 1982.

McCormack disappeared without a trace in 1982 after expressing his desire to divorce Durst, in a case that remained unsolved.

A decade later the police reopened the investigation and in 2000 Berman, who until then had interceded as a friend on Durst's behalf, was found

shortly before they could question her about what happened to McCormack.

These two disappearances are compounded by a third, in 2001, for which Durst pleaded guilty but was acquitted.

The magnate admitted to killing and later dismembering his neighbor in a

town , whose carcass was found floating in the sea.

Durst was tried and exonerated by a jury, which determined that he had acted in self-defense after a struggle with the victim, although the prosecution indicated that the businessman's true intention was to steal the identity of his neighbor to evade Justice.

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