18 Facts About Susan Berman

Susan Jane Berman was an American journalist and author.

Susan Berman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1945, the only child of the former Betty Ewald, a traveling dancer who had adopted the stage name Gladys Evans, and David "Davie" Berman.

Susan Berman believed uncertainty surrounded her mother's presumed suicide by overdose a year later.

Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas and, later, in Hollywood, California, where her classmates and friends at the Chadwick School included Jann Wenner and Liza Minnelli.

Susan Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met American real estate heir Robert Durst.

Susan Berman was gradually paid a total of $4.3 million by the Mafia for her father's interests in casinos and other properties.

Susan Berman was a novelist and author of two memoirs, along with a 1971 college guidebook, The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice.

In San Francisco, Susan Berman wrote for media outlets including the San Francisco Examiner, Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine, the Westinghouse Evening Show on KPIX-TV, and the People show on CBS.

Susan Berman was a contributing writer for magazines such as New York, Cosmopolitan and Family Circle.

At the time of her death, Susan Berman was working on a project for Showtime with attorney Kevin Norte.

Susan Berman lived just off the Sunset Strip on Alta Loma Road in West Hollywood for several years prior to her final residence in Benedict Canyon, in Los Angeles.

Susan Berman kept close ties to friends on Alta Loma Road, at the Las Vegas Strip, and in New York City, including Durst.

Susan Berman was found murdered, execution style with a 9mm handgun, on Christmas Eve 2000 in her rented Benedict Canyon home, and was presumed to have been dead at least one day.

Susan Berman became a confidante of Durst at UCLA in the late 1960s, and came to know McCormack after later moving to New York.

Susan Berman initially acted as a media spokesperson for Durst, and is believed to have facilitated his public alibi.

Susan Berman had remained Durst's friend and received two large cash gifts totaling $50,000 from him in the months before her death; she had last written to Durst on November 5,2000, expressing hope that her financial entreaties would not ruin their friendship.

Susan Berman was killed weeks after the reopened investigation was publicized.

Susan Berman is interred at Home of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles, California.