![]() ![]() The murder charge includes the special circumstance allegation that she was killed because she was a witness to a crime. The 78-year-old Durst is a real estate scion from New York. Newman will be back on the witness stand Thursday afternoon for continuing cross-examination by one of Durst’s attorneys, David Chesnoff. The friends never discussed the subject again, she said, but Newman noted that she felt “tremendous shame that I did not appreciate the gravity of what she was telling me.” “It was something false,” Newman said, adding that she “responded negatively” to the news from Berman, who then backtracked. “And in discussing this alibi, did she indicate to you whether or not in words whether this was an actual alibi or whether she had done something false?” the prosecutor asked. “I remember her saying that she made a phone call.”Īsked how sure she was that Berman told her about providing an alibi, Newman replied, “100%.” “Susan told me that she had provided an alibi for him, for Bobby, in relation to the disappearance,” the Newman testified. “Do you know how you found out that (Kathie Durst) had disappeared?” Deputy District Attorney John Lewin asked. She was never seen again and was later declared dead in 2017. ![]() But Newman testified today about another incident where her longtime friend Berman told her that she provided a false alibi for Durst related to the disappearance of his first wife, Kathie Durst. He was arrested in a New Orleans hotel hours before the final episode of an HBO series on the disappearance of Kathie Durst and the killing of Berman.ĮARLIER : Saturday Night Live alumna Laraine Newman said today that a friend created an alibi for alleged killer Robert Durst in the death of Durst’s first wife.ĭurst is on trial in Los Angeles for the death of Susan Berman, who was shot in December 2000. “If you’re trying to drive a point to the idea that I would say something that didn’t happen, that’s not true,” she told Durst’s attorney.ĭurst has been in prison since March 14, 2015. The former original SNL member also acknowledged her past drug use. Of and wanted to back-pedal because she didn’t want to get in trouble.” Newman said she felt Berman sensed that she had “told me something that I didn’t approve “Well, I was ashamed that … I didn’t appreciate the gravity of what she was saying to me and that I blithely accepted her back-tracking and rescinding …,” Newman said. She said she was chagrined when she realized the significance of what Berman had told her. She said she doesn’t recall exactly when the conversation with Berman Newman said that she didn’t tell police in 2001 about the alibi conversation because she simply didn’t remember it at the time. Lewin in September of 2015, `I felt like I’m not sure it’s true,’ referring to the alibi issue, and `I don’t want to, you know, put forth something that could just be nonsense?,” one of Durst’s attorneys, David Chesnoff, asked. 'SNL' Alumna Laraine Newman Tells (Almost) All In New Audio Book ![]()
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