Susan Berman
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| Born | Susan Jane Berman May 18, 1945 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | December 23, 2000 (aged 55) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Home of Peace Cemetery |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Education | Bachelor's, master's |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley |
| Genre | Fiction, nonfiction |
| Subject | Mob, Las Vegas |
| Notable works | Easy Street |
| Spouse | Mister Margulies (divorced) |
| Relatives | Davie Berman, father |
Susan Jane Berman (May 18, 1945 – December 24, 2000) was an American journalist and author, the daughter of Davie Berman, a Las Vegas mob figure. She wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in that criminal empire. She was found murdered on Christmas Eve 2000 in her Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California home.
Fifteen years later on March 14, 2015, Berman's friend Robert Durst was arrested in New Orleans and charged with first-degree murder in connection to Berman's slaying.
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 Davie Berman. Her father was born into a Jewish family in Odessa, Ukraine, during the Russian Empire, the son of a former rabbinical student. Berman moved with her parents to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1946. She always maintained that her father — a mob figure who replaced Bugsy Siegel at the Flamingo Hotel after Siegel's gangland murder — died under mysterious circumstances on an operating table when Berman was 12, but all indications were that he died of a heart attack during surgery. She also believed uncertainty surrounded her mother's presumed suicide by overdose a year later.
Berman grew up in Las Vegas and, later, in Hollywood, California, where high school classmates included Jann Wenner and Liza Minnelli. She received a bachelor of arts degree in 1967 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met Robert Durst. In 1969 she graduated with a master of arts in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. At age 21, 25 and 30, Berman was paid a total of $4.3 million by the Mafia for her father's interests in casinos and other properties.
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