ROBERT DURST: PARTICIPATING IN DOCUMENTARY 'THE JINX' WAS 'STUPID,' PUT HIM IN JAIL

A close friend of Robert Durst told prosecutors for months that the real estate heir did not confess any killing to him.

Lawyers for Durst presented transcripts in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (17 FEB.) that showed Nathan Chavin denying that Durst indicated he killed their mutual friend Susan Berman.

Chavin says he waffled for months because of a struggle between loyalties to Durst and Berman.

It took seven months before he told prosecutors Durst told him: "It was her or me. I had no choice."

Defense lawyers suggested Chavin made up the story to curry favor with Durst's brother.

Chavin did business with the New York real estate development empire headed by Douglas Durst.

Chavin says the brothers hate each other and Douglas Durst feared his older brother and wanted him locked up.

Robert Durst told Chavin he was stupid to participate in the documentary about his life "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."

Durst told Chavin in a recorded jail phone call played Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom that the filmmaker had put him behind bars.

Chavin reminded Durst on the call that he counseled him not to participate in "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." The film unearthed new evidence implicating Durst in three killings.

Durst has pleaded not guilty to murder in the 2000 killing of death of Susan Berman in Los Angeles.

Chavin is testifying in a hearing to record testimony from witnesses who are old or fear for their safety in case they're not able to testify at a trial in the Berman case.

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FILE: Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

DURST APPEARS IN NEW ORLEANS COURT; POLICE SAY HE HAD A REVOLVER WITH HIM WHEN ARRESTED

Millionaire Robert Durst agreed Monday (16 MARCH 2015) to return to Los Angeles to face a 15-year-old murder charge after muttering that he "killed them all" in a documentary about his links to three sensational killings.

Robert Durst, 71, appeared before a judge in New Orleans after FBI agents arrested him before HBO's broadcast of Sunday's final episode of the documentary.

He is charged in the shooting death of Susan Berman, a mobster's daughter who acted as his spokeswoman. He has also long been suspected in the death of his wife, Kathleen Durst, and was acquitted years ago in the death of an elderly neighbor.

In the finale of the documentary that authorities hope will finally lead to a conviction, he muttered that "killed them all, of course."

He shuffled into the courtroom with his hands shackled at his waist, wearing sandals and an orange jumpsuit. He turned to the gallery and smiled, then appeared to fall asleep just before the hearing started. Later, he answered "yes" to questions from the judge about whether he was waiving extradition from Louisiana state to California.

But one of his lawyers, Dick DeGuerin, said the trip may be delayed because New Orleans prosecutors are considering other unspecified charges. He wouldn't elaborate, and spokesman Christopher Bowman said the Orleans Parish district attorney's office won't comment.

A police report said Durst was in possession of a revolver when he was arrested. In Louisiana, a person needs a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and it was not immediately clear if Durst had a permit.

A former prosecutor who reopened one of the cold cases against Durst years ago, Jeanine Pirro, said Monday that his own words, recorded during and after a lengthy interview he gave to the filmmaker, are enough to convict him.

In the finale of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Durst acknowledges similarities in the handwriting of a letter he wrote and another one sent anonymously to Beverly Hills Police alerting them to his friend's "cadaver." Then he went to the bathroom, still wearing his live microphone.

What followed was bizarre rambling in which Durst said, apparently to himself, "There it is. You're caught" and "What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course."

Jarecki and his co-writer and cinematographer Marc Smerling answered some of the many questions raised by Durst's audiotaped comments in a New York Times interview published Monday.

They said they never confronted Durst about what he said in the bathroom, but that they did share what they found with authorities last year as they were preparing the film to be aired.

Durst willingly talked with Jarecki on camera. They met after the filmmaker told a fictionalized account of Durst's story in "All Good Things," a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling.

The making of the documentary took three years, and the bathroom audio was discovered by an editing crew last June, Jarecki said.

For the filmmakers, the audiotape tipped the scales - they not only believe he's responsible for the murders, but that he's capable of more violence. Jarecki told the Times that they hired security and were relieved when Durst was finally arrested.

Berman was the daughter of an associate of Las Vegas mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky who spoke out on Durst's behalf after his wife disappeared. She was killed at her home near Beverly Hills with a bullet to the back of her head.

Durst then lived as a mute woman in a Texas boarding house until 2001, when dismembered parts of Black's body were found floating in Galveston Bay. He fled house arrest, then turned up shoplifting in Pennsylvania.

Lewis told that jury that Durst shot Black in self-defense, and he was acquitted of murder, despite admitting that he dismembered Black's body.

AP Television

New Orleans, March 16, 2015

1. Various of attorneys for Robert Durst leaving the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

2. SOUNDBITE Dick DeGuerin, Attorney for Robert Durst:

"let me just say that we came here to waive jurisdiction and go back to California and get it on. Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman. He's ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. But we were frustrated because local authorities are considering filing charges on him here and holding him here. We're ready to go to California and have a trial. See you later."

3. Various of who is believed to be Robert Durst arriving by sheriff's vehicle transport at a secure back entrance to the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse complex, which is next to the Orleans Parish jail

4. Various exteriors of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

SHOTLIST:

Tape One

30 mins approx

1. MS Matrix Reloaded poster

2. VS exterior and fans

3. B-roll Din Davis, composer, being interviewed

4. SOT Din Davis, composer

5. WS red carpet

6. B-roll photographers

7. MS Collin Chou with wife on red carpet

8. B-roll Collin Chou on red carpet

9. CA press

10. MS Leslie Bibb posing for photographs

11. B-roll Leslie Bibb being interviewed

12. MS Collin Chou being interviewed

13. SOT Collin Chou

14. Zoom in Clayton Wilson being interviewed

15. VS press

16. Pan from press to Collin Chou being interviewed

17. SOT Clayton Wilson

18. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

19. Pan up Kikaru, singer

20. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

21. VS red carpet

22. SOT Daniel Bernhardt

23. B-roll actor being interviewed

24. B-roll Anthony Wong posing for photographs

25. Zoom in Anthony Wong being interviewed

26. CA press

27. Pan from interviewer to Anthony Wong being interviewed

28. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment on red carpet

29. SOT Anthony Wong

30. B-roll Rob Zombie on red carpet

31. B-roll Rob Zombie

32. SOT Rob Zombie

33. CA cameraman

34. SOT Oswald Botang

35. Zoom in Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

36. MS Rob Zombie being interviewed

37. WS red carpet

38. MS Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

39. CA crowd

40. VS red carpet

41. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment posing for photographs

42. SOT (L-R) Adrian Rayment and Neil Rayment

43. B-roll Hugo Weaving on red carpet

44. CA press

45. B-roll Harold Perrineau being interviewed

46. SOT Harold Perrineau

47. MS Christina Milian

48. MS Hugo Weaving being interviewed

49. B-roll Fred Durst on red carpet

50. MS Jon Voight

51. B-roll Fred Durst being interviewed

52. SOT Fred Durst

53. B-roll Monica Bellucci

54. MS Tom Arnold

55. B-roll Keanu Reeves on red carpet

56. SOT Hugo Weaving. Including soundbite:

"Well, I've always thought that the Matrix was a totally imagined world that was fully realized on screen over the three movies - it's fully realized. You get a very strong glimpse of the Matrix in the first one and this one you're seeing Zion, you're seeing more of the architecture of the Matrix and you get to meet the architect of the Matrix and in the next one there's greater development as well."

57. VS Monica Bellucci being interviewed, including pan up body

58. B-roll Keanu Reeves

59. SOT Monica Bellucci. Including soundbite:

"I learned so much because even though it's just a supporting character I had the chance to play something really strong because Persephone, I mean, she's dangerous, she's mysterious, she's sensual and she's sad."

60. MS Keanu Reeves being interviewed

61. MS Jada Pinkett Smith posing for photographs

62. B-roll Will Smith

63. MS Laurence Fishburne

64. SOT Keanu Reeves. Including soundbite:

"I don't know couldn't distill it down to one thing. I wouldn't want to. It's given me so much - as an actor, as a performer, in my life in films and things, the challenges that it had - the people that I got to work with - it was beautiful. There's so much there."

Tape Two

8 mins approx

1. B-roll Sandra Bullock

2. Medium WS Laurence Fishburne and wife being interviewed

3. Zoom in Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

4. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss posing for photographs

5. CA press

6. Pan from press to Keanu Reeves being interviewed

7. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss

8. MS Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

9. SOT Laurence Fishburne. Including soundbite:

"What have I gained personally? Well, aside from the stunning woman that you see next to me - I have perhaps gained a little bit more confidence with regard to my physical body-image."

10. SOT Jada Pinkett Smith

11. Pan up Carrie-Anne Moss being interviewed

12. SOT Carrie-Anne Moss. Including soundbite:

"What haven't I gained? Truly. It's been the most incredible ride. I feel really honoured to be party of it. It's kind of emotional for me because it's been a really profound time of change for me which has come through the work as well and I just really love playing this character and being part of this team."

13. SOT Nona Gaye

14. B-roll Lance Bass

15. MS back of Carrie-Anne Moss

16. MS Joel Silver, producer being interviewed

17. SOT Joel Silver, producer

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SHOTLIST:

LARGE TAPE

79 mins approx

1. SOT Norah Jones

2. SOT No Doubt

3. SOT David Silveria, from Korn

4. SOT John Mayer

5. SOT Dixie Chicks. Including soundbite: "This is thrilling and it reminds you that you are still in the game. Every year that goes by you wonder if people are going to forget about you. We take a lot of time off to have babies and stuff like that. We are most proud of this album so we are most proud of these Grammy's."

6. SOT Rafael Saadiq

7. SOT Tony Bennett

8. SOT Faith Hill

9. SOT Michael Kamen

10. SOT Harvey Fierstein

11. SOT Sheryl Crow

12. SOT Fred Durst

13. SOT Robin Williams

14. SOT Jesse Harris, songwriter

15. SOT The Roots

16. SOT Usher

17. SOT Kelly Rowland

18. SOT Ashanti

19. SOT Foo Fighters

20. SOT Norah Jones. Including soundbite: "I don't know, I'm going to have to move first, get another apartment. It's amazing, career wise this is probably the biggest ever thing that I will ever do. I don't expect another record like this. It kind of happened, it's exciting that it happened but it doesn't happen every day."

21. SOT head of the Grammys

22. SOT Peter Gabriel

23. SOT Simon and Garfunkel

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