Hollywood producer testifies in Robert Durst murder case
LOS ANGELES — A Hollywood producer testified Wednesday that a friend claimed to have impersonated the first wife of real estate heir Robert Durst in a telephone call that prosecutors say took place after the wife was dead.
Lynda Obst, whose films include “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Interstellar,” took the stand during a pre-trial hearing for Durst, who is charged with shooting Susan Berman in 2000 at her Los Angeles home.
Obst said that Berman, a mutual friend, confided that she had pretended to be Kathleen Durst in a 1982 telephone call to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Center in New York.
A previous witness has said the woman claimed she was sick and couldn’t make it to her first day of a clerkship in pediatrics.