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Law Practice

Mar. 20, 2015

Admit the confession heard 'round the world?

"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course," Robert Durst muttered to himself during a bathroom break at the conclusion of his interview with filmmaker Andrew Jarecki.

Mathew S. Rosengart

Partner
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Commercial Litigation, Media & Entertainment Litigation

1840 Century Park E Ste 1900
Los Angeles , CA 90067-2121

Phone: (310) 586-3889

Email: rosengartm@gtlaw.com

Boston Coll Law School

Mathew S. Rosengart is a litigation partner at the global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP. A former federal prosecutor who received the Justice Department's Special Achievement Award, among other accolades, Mathew was named 2024's Entertainment Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation, a media and entertainment MVP by Law360, one of the Top 200 lawyers in the nation by Forbes, and a Sports & Entertainment and General Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, and a 2024 Daily Journal Top 100 lawyer. He has also perennially been recognized as one of the nation's leading media and entertainment litigators by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

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With this bombshell "confession" - muttered by Robert Durst to himself during a bathroom break at the conclusion of his interview with filmmaker Andrew Jarecki - HBO's riveting documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," came to a close Sunday evening. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office charged Durst with first-degree murder, for the gangland-style murder of his friend Susan Berman in 2000.

While prosecutors will undoubtedly seek to intr...

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