Durst's father Seymour Durst was a prominent property developer and the head of The Durst Organization. The family was ...

By the 1950s, the company began assembling bigger sites and constructing office towers. Seymour Durst took over the company in 1975, after his father Joseph died. Durst’s portfolio includes some of ...

Chavin, 72, detailed his relationship with Durst, whom he credited along with Durst’s father, Seymour, as giving him his start as a real estate advertising executive in the early 1980s, by handing him ...

Robert Durst was born on April 12, 1943, the oldest son of New York real estate magnate Seymour Durst, whose family Durst Organization is connected to some of New York City’s most iconic buildings.