What journalist was both the daughter of a Las Vegas mob figure, as well as suspected victim of real estate heir Robert Durst?
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Robert Durst Robert Alan Durst (born April 12, 1943) is an American real estate heir, the son of New York City mogul Seymour Durst, and the elder brother of Douglas Durst, head of the Durst Organization. He is primarily known for being suspected of foul play against three individuals in different states: Kathleen McCormack Durst, his first wife, who disappeared in New York in 1982; Susan Berman, his longtime friend, who was murdered in California in 2000; and his neighbor, Morris Black, who was murdered in Texas in 2001. Durst was the subject of a multi-state manhunt and was ultimately convicted of dismembering Black, but acquitted of his murder.
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Susan Berman Susan Jane Berman (May 18, 1945 – December 24, 2000) was an American journalist, author, and the daughter of Davie "Davie the Jew" Berman, a Las Vegas mob figure. She wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in that criminal empire.
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Gary Webb Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist.
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Linda Johnson Linda Johnson (born October 14, 1953) is an American professional poker player, journalist and consultant, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Lauren Scruggs Lauren Scruggs Kennedy (born July 18, 1988 ) is an American fashion journalist and blogger. She received international media attention after a December 3, 2011 incident in which Scruggs walked into an airplane's spinning propeller, losing her left eye and severing her left hand after exiting the plane in the dark, following a flight to view Christmas lights in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Ruth Montgomery Ruth Shick Montgomery (June 11, 1912 – June 10, 2001) was a journalist with a long career as a reporter and syndicated columnist in Washington, DC. Later in life she became a self-proclaimed psychic and author of numerous books on occult and New Age subjects, whose predictions regarding the "polar shift of 1999" heads a long list of attempts to foretell the future. She was a biographer of alleged paranormal medium Jeane Dixon and a protégée of Arthur Ford who posited unsupported claims that he (like Edgar Cayce) could access the Akashic Records (or database) of the Universe.
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Carole Simpson Carole Simpson (born December 7, 1941) is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author.
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Sante Kimes Sante Kimes (born Sandra Louise Singhrs; July 24, 1934 – May 19, 2014) was an American criminal who was convicted of two murders, as well as robbery, violation of anti-slavery laws, forgery and numerous other crimes. Many of these crimes were committed with the assistance of her son, Kenneth Kimes Jr. They were tried and convicted together for the murder of Irene Silverman, along with 117 other charges. The pair were also suspected but never charged in a third murder in the Bahamas, to which Kenneth has confessed.
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Janet Langhart Janet Leola Langhart Cohen (née Floyd; born December 22, 1940) is an American television journalist and anchor, and author. Beginning her career as a model, she started in television reporting the weather.
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Catherine Nevin Catherine Nevin (née Scully, born 1 October 1950) is an Irish woman who was convicted in 2000 of murdering her husband Tom Nevin at Jack White's Inn, a pub owned by the couple in County Wicklow. The jury in her trial also found her guilty on three charges of soliciting others to kill him after five days of deliberation, then the longest period of deliberation in the history of the Irish State. Nevin was the subject of significant coverage by the tabloid press and Justice Mella Carroll ordered a ban on the press commenting on Nevin's appearance or demeanour during the trial. Nevin in 2016 was diagnosed with a brain tumor and given only months to live by doctors at the Mater Hospital
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Rosario DeSimone Rosario DeSimone (December 11, 1873 – July 15, 1946), was the head of an Italian crime family during the 1920s to 1940s that was the predecessor to the Los Angeles crime family of the American Mafia. Rosario was the father of the future California mob boss, Frank DeSimone. Not to be confused with the Chicago Italian Timothy Rosario DeSimone.
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Mary McNamara Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the "Los Angeles Times". She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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Doon Arbus Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. She is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus. Her sister, Amy Arbus, is a photojournalist. Doon was 26 when her mother committed suicide, and now manages her mother's estate.
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Dominique Searle Dominique Searle, MBE, (2 April 1960) is a Gibraltarian journalist, son of the also journalist Jon Morgan Searle.Editor of the "Gibraltar Chronicle", he is married and has three children.
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Gary Weiss Gary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street. He was also a contributing editor for "Condé Nast Portfolio". His "Businessweek" articles exposed organized crime on Wall Street and the Salomon Brothers bond trading scandal in the 1990s, and more recently he has covered the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Weiss is co-founder of The Mideast Reporter.
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Andrew Kirtzman Andrew Kirtzman (born c. 1961) is a journalist and author who served as political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of "Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff" about Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme and "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City," a book about the former mayor's tumultuous reign at City Hall. Kirtzman was with Giuliani on the morning of September 11, 2001 and chronicled his experience with the mayor in the paperback version of his book.
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Karen Friedman Hill Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film "Goodfellas" and several books.
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Marie-Claire Pauwels Marie-Claire Pauwels (3 September 1945, 15th arrondissement of Paris – 22 May 2011) was a French journalist, the daughter of Suzanne Brégeon and Louis Pauwels. In April 1980, she launched the magazine "Madame Figaro" of which she became the first editor-in-chief and received the Prix Roger Nimier in 2003 for her autobiographical work "Fille à papa".
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Denne Bart Petitclerc Denne Bart Petitclerc (May 15, 1929 – February 3, 2006) was an American journalist, war correspondent, author, television producer, and screenwriter.
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Deborah Laake Deborah Laake (1953 – February 6, 2000) was a columnist at the "Dallas Morning News" in the 1980s and later a staff writer, columnist, editor, and executive at the "Phoenix New Times". She was famous for her 1993 book entitled "", a candid and critical account of her experiences growing up and marrying as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Beverly Deepe Keever Beverly Deepe Keever (born June 1, 1935) is an American journalist, Vietnam War correspondent, author and professor emerita of journalism and communications. In 1969 Beverly Deepe married Charles J. Keever.
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Kevin Deutsch Kevin Deutsch is an American criminal justice journalist and author of two books. The sourcing and veracity of some of his news articles and his book "Pill City"--an account of how opioids looted during the 2015 Baltimore riots sparked a wave of violence and fatal overdoses--have become the subject of a high-profile dispute involving allegations the author fabricated sources. Deutsch, who has covered the illegal drug trade for 15 years, has denied all of the claims and defended his work as accurate.