# Susan Berman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Berman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Berman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Berman > Source revision: 1355020890 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American journalist and author (1945–2000)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox writer | name = Susan Berman | image = Susan-berman-648234_tn.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Susan Jane Berman | birth_date = May 18, 1945 | birth_place = [Minneapolis, Minnesota](/source/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota), U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2000|12|23|1945|05|18}} | death_place = [Beverly Hills, California](/source/Beverly_Hills%2C_California), U.S. | resting_place = [Home of Peace Cemetery](/source/Home_of_Peace_Cemetery_(East_Los_Angeles)) | occupation = Journalist, author | language = English | nationality = | citizenship = | education = [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles) ([B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) ([M.A.](/source/Master_of_Arts)) | period = | genre = [Fiction](/source/Fiction), nonfiction | subject = [American Mafia](/source/American_Mafia), [Las Vegas](/source/Las_Vegas) | movement = | notableworks = ''Easy Street'' | spouse = Christopher ("Mister") Margulies (deceased) | partner = | children = 2 | relatives = [Davie Berman](/source/David_Berman_(mobster)) (father) | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Susan Jane Berman''' (May 18, 1945 – December 23, 2000) was an [American](/source/United_States) journalist and author. The daughter of mobster [David Berman](/source/David_Berman_(mobster)), she wrote about her eventual realization of her father's role in organized crime.{{cite web |last1=Rake |first1=Launce |title=Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history |url=https://themobmuseum.org/blog/arrest-in-beverly-hills-murder-has-ties-to-las-vegas-mob-history/ |website=The Mob Museum |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=16 March 2015}} In 2000, Berman was found murdered in her home. The case went unsolved for more than a decade, until real-estate heir [Robert Durst](/source/Robert_Durst), Berman's longtime friend, was charged with her murder in 2015 and convicted in 2021. ==Early life== Susan Berman was born in [Minneapolis](/source/Minneapolis), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota), in 1945, the only child of the former Betty Ewald, a traveling dancer who had adopted the stage name Gladys Evans,{{cite news|title=Robert Durst confidante Susan Berman was only child of Twin Cities mobster|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|author=Paul Walsh|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[Star Tribune](/source/Star_Tribune)|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402202214/http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/296776801.html|url-status=live}} and [David "Davie" Berman](/source/David_Berman_(mobster)). Berman always maintained that her father—a major [Jewish-American organized crime](/source/Jewish-American_organized_crime) figure who took over the [Flamingo Hotel](/source/Flamingo_Las_Vegas) after [Bugsy Siegel](/source/Bugsy_Siegel)'s 1947 gangland murder—died under mysterious circumstances on an operating table when she was 12, but all indications are that he died of a heart attack during surgery.{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|title=Minnesota history: Recent arrest brings to life a Minneapolis mobster|work=startribune.com|access-date=March 29, 2015|archive-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403005416/http://www.startribune.com/local/297135841.html|url-status=live}} 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](/source/Hollywood%2C_California), where her classmates and friends at the [Chadwick School](/source/Chadwick_School){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqrb1crUNTwC&q=%22susan+berman%22+%22chadwick+school%22+%22murder+of+a+mafia+daughter%22|title=Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman|first=Cathy|last=Scott|date=June 16, 2019|publisher=Barricade Books|isbn=9781569802380|via=Google Books}} included [Jann Wenner](/source/Jann_Wenner) and [Liza Minnelli](/source/Liza_Minnelli).{{cite news|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|title=The Fugitive Heir|work=[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(magazine))|date=February 2002|access-date=March 17, 2015|author=Ned Zeman|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317003124/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/03/robert-durst-murders-wife-susie-berman|url-status=live}} Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles), where she met American real estate heir [Robert Durst](/source/Robert_Durst). In 1969, she graduated with a Master of Arts in journalism from the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley).{{cite web |url=http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |title=Susan Berman |publisher=Online Nevada Encyclopedia |date=March 20, 2009 |access-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214070050/http://www.onlinenevada.org/susan_berman |url-status=live }} Berman was gradually paid a total of $4.3 million by the [Mafia](/source/American_Mafia) for her father's interests in casinos and other properties.{{cite web|url=http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|title=Video Vault - Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 1|author=Tom Hawley|work=mynews3.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321162452/http://www.mynews3.com/content/specials/videovault/story/video-vault-berman-mafia-murder-beverly-hills/g-aWdQ4ZRUyIEp7Lwnav6g.cspx|archive-date=March 21, 2015}} ==Career== Berman was a novelist and author of two [memoir](/source/memoir)s, along with a 1971 college guidebook, ''The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice.'' Her first memoir, ''[Easy Street](/source/Easy_Street_(book))'', detailed her life as a mobster's daughter. While representing her in the 1970s, the [William Morris Agency](/source/William_Morris_Endeavor) talked with several Hollywood producers interested in adapting the book into a [screenplay](/source/screenplay). The movie rights were ultimately sold for $350,000, but no film project ever materialized.{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-literary-life-and-death-of-susan-berman-robert-durst-victim-20150316-story.html|title=The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim|access-date=March 17, 2015|date=March 17, 2015|work=[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)|author=Carolyn Kellogg|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317143541/http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-literary-life-and-death-of-susan-berman-robert-durst-victim-20150316-story.html|url-status=live}} For a time, Berman attempted to finance a musical based on the [Dreyfus affair](/source/Dreyfus_affair), in which Durst declined to invest. In [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), Berman wrote for media outlets including the ''[San Francisco Examiner](/source/San_Francisco_Examiner)'', [Francis Ford Coppola](/source/Francis_Ford_Coppola)'s ''City Magazine'', the ''[Westinghouse Evening Show](/source/Westinghouse_Broadcasting)'' on [KPIX-TV](/source/KPIX-TV), and the ''People'' show on [CBS](/source/CBS). She was a contributing writer for magazines such as ''[New York](/source/New_York_(magazine))'',{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|date=November 14, 1977|access-date=March 18, 2015|author=Susan Berman|work=[New York](/source/New_York_(magazine))|title=Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer|archive-date=January 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107194848/http://nymag.com/news/politics/49908/|url-status=live}} ''[Cosmopolitan](/source/Cosmopolitan_(magazine))'' and ''[Family Circle](/source/Family_Circle)''. She also wrote ''Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift!'' and ''Lady Las Vegas'', accompanying the 1996 release of an [A&E](/source/A%26E_Network) documentary, for which she was a co-writer and nominated for a [Writers Guild of America](/source/Writers_Guild_of_America) award.{{cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-01-05/news/18178471_1_david-berman-bugsy-siegel-writers-guild |title=Mobster's Kin Killed: Writer was daughter of Bugsy's partner |date=January 5, 2001 |access-date=December 14, 2012}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} At the time of her death, Berman was working on a project for [Showtime](/source/Showtime_(TV_network)) with attorney [Kevin Norte](/source/Kevin_and_Don_Norte). Entitled ''Sin City,'' it was being planned as Showtime's answer to the [HBO](/source/HBO) hit ''[The Sopranos](/source/The_Sopranos)''. ==Personal life== Berman lived just off the [Sunset Strip](/source/Sunset_Strip) on Alta Loma Road in [West Hollywood](/source/West_Hollywood%2C_California) for several years prior to her final residence in [Benedict Canyon](/source/Benedict_Canyon), in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles). Her manager, Nyle Brenner, later told the ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)'' that "many details of Ms. Berman's personal life are unclear" and added "she had been married once in the 1980s, and later helped rear the two children of a boyfriend." Berman was married to Christopher "Mister" Margulies, in June 1984 at the [Hotel Bel-Air](/source/Hotel_Bel-Air); Durst walked Berman down the aisle.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|title=On HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'|newspaper=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|author=Charles V. Bagli, Vivian Yee|date=March 15, 2015|access-date=March 15, 2015|archive-date=March 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321232039/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html|url-status=live}} Margulies died of a [heroin](/source/heroin) overdose in 1986. Berman kept close ties to friends on Alta Loma Road, at the [Las Vegas Strip](/source/Las_Vegas_Strip), and in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), including Durst. ==Murder== Berman was found murdered, execution style with a [9mm](/source/9mm) [handgun](/source/handgun), on Christmas Eve 2000 in her rented Benedict Canyon home, and was presumed to have been dead at least one day. On March 14, 2015, Durst was arrested in [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans) on a [first-degree murder](/source/first-degree_murder) warrant, issued out of Los Angeles. Although his presumed victim was not immediately named by authorities, the ''Los Angeles Times'' first reported that he had been detained in connection to Berman's slaying.{{cite news| author =Richard Winton, Matt Hamilton and Shelby Grad| title =Robert Durst arrested in slaying of L.A. writer| newspaper =[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)| date =March 15, 2015| url =http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-arrested-in-la-murder-case-20150315-story.html| accessdate =March 15, 2015| archive-date =September 8, 2019| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190908022237/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-arrested-in-la-murder-case-20150315-story.html| url-status =live}} Three days after his arrest, Los Angeles District Attorney [Jackie Lacey](/source/Jackie_Lacey) said that, if convicted, Durst could face the [death penalty](/source/death_penalty) in California for "special circumstances of murder of a witness and lying in wait."{{cite news|title=Prosecutors charge Durst with murder; death penalty possible|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/durst-hbo-murder-hearing/24837005/|date=March 17, 2015|access-date=March 18, 2015|author=John Bacon and William M. Welch|work=[USA Today](/source/USA_Today)|archive-date=March 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317143809/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/durst-hbo-murder-hearing/24837005/|url-status=live}} Durst was transferred to California and [arraigned](/source/arraignment) there in early November 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-murder-trial-20161104-story.html|title=Robert Durst arrives in L.A. to face murder trial; first court appearance is Monday|date=November 5, 2016|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 28, 2022|archive-date=February 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228212823/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-murder-trial-20161104-story.html|url-status=live}} Multiple accounts, including ''[Murder of a Mafia Daughter](/source/Murder_in_Beverly_Hills)'' by [Cathy Scott](/source/Cathy_Scott), have reported possible connections between Berman's murder and the 1982 disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst. Berman became a confidante of Durst at UCLA in the late 1960s, and came to know McCormack after later moving to New York.[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crime-she-writes/201311/book-probes-new-evidence-in-mob-daughters-murder Book Probes New Evidence in Mob Daughter's Murder | ''Psychology Today''] In a review of Scott's book, ''True Crime Zine'' suggested that "detectives came to suspect one of [Berman's] longtime friends, but have never been able to charge him with murder."{{Cite web |url=http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |title=Susan Berman book: Murder in Beverly Hills by Cathy Scott {{!}} ''True Crime Zine'' |access-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140116040806/http://truecrimezine.com/susan-berman-book-cathy-scott/ |url-status=live }} Durst was also considered a [prime suspect](/source/prime_suspect) in his wife's disappearance and, many years after she was last seen, was eventually charged in the case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|title=Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife Kathie Durst|website=NBC News|date=November 2021 |access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=May 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508193539/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie-durst-n1282923|url-status=live}} Berman claimed to have acted as a media spokesperson for Durst, and is believed to have facilitated his public [alibi](/source/alibi).{{cite news|author=Kevin Fagan|title=Durst case slaying victim had titillating Bay Area history|url=http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|date=March 16, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|work=[SFGate](/source/SFGate)|archive-date=March 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319043731/http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Durst-case-slaying-victim-had-titillating-Bay-6137835.php|url-status=live}} In 1982, she provided the case with a [deposition](/source/Deposition_(law)), a copy of which Durst faxed to investigators after her murder.{{cite news|url=http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|title=Search Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston Home|work=[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times) (link to online public document)|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 20, 2015|archive-date=March 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320063913/http://documents.latimes.com/search-warrant-robert-dursts-houston-home/|url-status=live}} Berman had remained Durst's friend and received two $25,000 checks 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.{{cite magazine |first=Lisa |last=DePaulo |url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |title=Who Killed the Gangster's Daughter? |magazine=[New York](/source/New_York_(magazine)) |date=March 12, 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717175033/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4459/index.html |archive-date=July 17, 2006 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|title=Did Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?|date=March 29, 2015|access-date=March 29, 2015|work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)|author=Andrew Gumbel|archive-date=March 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330111753/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/29/robert-durst-jeanine-pirro-california-timeline-the-jinx|url-status=live}} Earlier in 2000, the [New York State Police](/source/New_York_State_Police), at the request of then-[Westchester County](/source/Westchester_County%2C_New_York) [District Attorney](/source/District_Attorney) [Jeanine Pirro](/source/Jeanine_Pirro), had reopened an investigation into Kathleen's disappearance, and was urged by the missing woman's friends, without apparent success, to contact Berman for an interview. Berman was killed weeks after the reopened investigation was publicized. Durst's 2015 arrest warrant mentioned a previously undisclosed typewritten letter, mailed from New York on January 9, 2001, to a [West Los Angeles](/source/West_Los_Angeles) police station, titled, "Possible motive for Susan Berman murder." The letter said Berman suspected Durst had been involved in his wife's disappearance,{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|work=[NBC News](/source/NBC_News)|author=Andrew Blankstein and Hannah Rappleye|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=March 19, 2015|title=Robert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When Arrested|archive-date=March 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318212054/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-durst-had-mask-fake-id-42-000-cash-when-n325961|url-status=live}} and specified that Durst was planning to visit her in late December. Scott, Berman's biographer, predicted to ''[Page Six](/source/Page_Six)'' that Durst would be found guilty. "The evidence is clear. I don’t see how he can get out of this one,” she said.{{cite news|url=https://pagesix.com/2017/02/06/friend-of-robert-dursts-alleged-victim-is-certain-hell-be-convicted/|work=[Page Six](/source/Page_Six)|author= Richard Johnsontitle=Friend of Robert Durst’s alleged victim is certain he’ll be convicted|title=Friend of Robert Durst's alleged victim is certain he'll be convicted | Page Six |date=February 6, 2017|access-date=2025-08-09}} On September 17, 2021, Durst was convicted of Berman's murder and, several weeks later, was sentenced to life in prison. Four months after the conviction, he died in prison.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|title=Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78|work=NPR |agency=Associated Press|date=January 10, 2022|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=April 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418221813/https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78|url-status=live}} Berman is interred at [Home of Peace Memorial Park](/source/Home_of_Peace_Memorial_Park) in [East Los Angeles, California](/source/East_Los_Angeles%2C_California).{{cite web|title=Who killed the gangster's daughter? Revisiting Lisa DePaulo's 2001 feature about Robert Durst and the death of Susan Berman|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|website=New York Magazine|access-date=November 12, 2018|author=Lisa DePaulo|date=February 6, 2015 |archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165717/https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/susan-berman-the-jinx.html|url-status=live}} ==Books== ===Nonfiction=== *''The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice'' (Signet, 1971), {{ISBN|0451078373}} *''Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family'' (The Dial Press, 1981), {{ISBN|978-0385271851}} *''Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Behind America's Neon Oasis'' (TV Books, 1996), {{ISBN|978-1575000206}} ===Fiction=== *''Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift'' ([Putnam](/source/G._P._Putnam's_Sons), 1976), {{ISBN|978-0399117046}} *''Fly Away Home'' (Avon Books, 1996), {{ISBN|978-0380781799}} *''Spiderweb'' ([Avon Books](/source/Avon_Books), 1997), {{ISBN|978-0380781805}} ==In popular culture== In the 2010 film ''[All Good Things](/source/All_Good_Things_(film))'', the character Deborah Lehrman, portrayed by [Lily Rabe](/source/Lily_Rabe), is inspired by Susan Berman. The film depicts Lehrman being murdered by the character Malvern Bump, who is inspired by [Morris Black](/source/Killing_of_Morris_Black). It is implied that Bump murders Lehrman on the orders of David Marks, inspired by Durst, in order to prevent her from revealing incriminating information about Marks. The story of Susan Berman's suspicious death and suspected murder was covered by a CBS News Productions documentary series ''[48 Hours](/source/48_Hours_(TV_program))'', Season 29, Episode 19, "Murder 90210", release date January 30, 2016 (USA). The case was the basis for the ''[Law & Order: Criminal Intent](/source/Law_%26_Order%3A_Criminal_Intent)'' episode "Maledictus". ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== *''[This American Life](/source/This_American_Life)'' [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/76/mob/act-two-6 episode 76: "Mob"]; linked [RealAudio](/source/RealAudio) file includes a reading by Berman from ''Easy Street''. *[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805076948 Homicide Special: A year with LAPD's Elite Detective Unit, Miles Corwin (2003) Chapter 14] *{{cite web |url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |title=Cold Case: Who Killed Susan Berman? |first=Cathy |last=Scott |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=February 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040927202211/http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/25/cover_story/cover.txt |archive-date=September 27, 2004 }} *''[A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst](/source/A_Deadly_Secret%3A_The_Strange_Disappearance_of_Kathie_Durst)'' (2003) by [Matt Birkbeck](/source/Matt_Birkbeck) *''[Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman](/source/Murder_of_a_Mafia_Daughter)'' (2002) by [Cathy Scott](/source/Cathy_Scott) *{{Find a Grave|72067665}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Berman, Susan}} Category:1945 births Category:2000 deaths Category:20th-century American women writers Category:Organized crime memoirists Category:20th-century American memoirists Category:American murder victims Category:American women memoirists Category:American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Category:Burials at Home of Peace Cemetery Category:History of Clark County, Nevada Category:Jewish American journalists Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers Category:Journalists killed in the United States Category:Murdered American Jews Category:21st-century American Jews Category:Murdered American journalists Category:Female murder victims in the United States Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni Category:UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni Category:People murdered in Los Angeles Category:San Francisco Examiner people Category:Deaths by firearm in California Category:American women crime writers Category:2000 murders in the United States Category:20th-century American Jews Category:American women screenwriters --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Susan Berman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Berman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Berman?action=history)). 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