Robert durst deborah lee charatan biography

When most people think of Robert Durst’s romantic entanglements, they think of his first wife, Kathleen Durst, who remains missing to this day.

But Durst had another wife later in life.

He married real estate broker Debrah Lee Charatan in a small ceremony in and while some believe the marriage was more of a business arrangement, Charatan served a vital role in his life. 

“That wasn’t a marriage made in heaven, that was clearly a marriage of convenience,” Matt Birkbeck, the author of the novel A Deadly Secret, told Oxygen’s Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.

Durst, who died in while still married to Charatan, had a complicated life.

The scion of a New York real estate empire grew up with wealth and privilege, but never seemed to live up to the image his father Seymour Durst had for him.

Durst was long suspected of killing Kathleen in the early s and was indicted for