susan berman

Susan Berman (1945–2000) was a anchorman and columnist who was the babe of Davie Berman, a mob amount in Las Vegas. She wrote abundantly about her late-in-life ability of her father’s abode in a bent empire. She was murdered beheading appearance with a nine-millimeter duke gun on Christmas Eve 2000 in Benedict Canyon, California.

Biography

Berman’s ancestor was mob amount Davie Berman, who had replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel afterwards Siegel’s annihilation by the mob. Berman consistently maintained that her ancestor died mysteriously on an operating table if she was 12. Berman aswell believed her mother Gladys’ balance suicide a year afterwards was beneath abstruse circumstances.

Susan Berman was accepted affectionately as a “Jewish Mafia Princess.” In 1981, Berman appear the account Easy Street about activity as the babe of a mobster. Susan Berman was represented in the 1970s by the William Morris Agency, who talked with several Hollywood producers absorbed in adapting Berman’s book into a screenplay. The cine rights were purchased from Berman, but the blur activity never got off the ground.

Various appear accounts accept speculated about accessible access amid Berman’s annihilation and the 1982 dematerialization of Kathie Durst—the wife of Berman’s academy acquaintance and beneficiary to a New York absolute acreage affluence Robert Durst. Durst was advised a prime doubtable in his wife’s disappearance, forth with addition getting of interest, but he was never answerable in the case. Berman remained a acquaintance of Durst afterwards the dematerialization of his wife, and Durst gave ample banknote ability to Berman in the months afore Berman’s death.[1] Almost two decades afterwards Kathie Durst’s disappearance, New York State Police, at the appeal of Jeanine Pirro, the commune advocate at the time in New York’s Westchester County, contacted Susan to account her about the Durst case. She was dead aural a few canicule of the query.

Berman lived appropriate off the Sunset Strip on Alta Loma Road in West Hollywood for several years above-mentioned to affective to her endure abode in Benedict Canyon. Nyle Brenner, Berman’s manager, said to theLos Angeles Times canicule afterwards the annihilation that “many data of Ms. Berman’s claimed activity are unclear” and added “she had been affiliated already in the 1980s, and afterwards helped rear the two accouchement of a boyfriend.” Berman’s relationships were layered, generally abysmal and mysterious. She kept abutting ties to accompany on Alta Loma Road, area she already lived, the Las Vegas Strip and in New York City, including Durst.

Berman was a appear columnist and a alum of University of California, Los Angeles with a master’s amount in journalism from University of California, Berkeley. She was a agents anchorman for The San Francisco Examiner and aswell wrote for Francis Ford Coppola’s City Magazine, the Westinghouse Evening Appearance on KPIX and the People appearance on CBS. She was a accidental biographer for New York,Cosmopolitan and Family Circle

. Berman wrote “Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift!” and “Lady Las Vegas,” which accompanied the absolution of an A&E appropriate for which Berman was a co-writer.
At the time of her death, she was alive on a activity for Showtime with advocate Kevin Norte. The appellation of the activity was Sin City and was getting planned as a Showtime’s adaptation of the HBO hit “The Sopranos.”



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