Fugitive real-estate scion Robert Durst obtained a marriage license last year to wed a top Manhattan real-estate broker, The Post has learned.
The broker, Debrah Lee Charatan, used the license to arrange for Durst’s bail after he was arrested on charges of beheading and dismembering an elderly neighbor in Texas, sources said yesterday.
Charatan sent the license and a power-of-attorney form to a Galveston, Texas, bail bondsman, enabling Durst to post $300,000 bail on Oct. 10, the sources said.
The 58-year-old son of the late developer Seymour Durst walked free and vanished, setting off a nationwide manhunt.
The sources said Durst and Charatan, 46, obtained the New York state marriage license last November, but it doesn’t appear they ever got married.
The license was never executed, meaning neither a clergyman nor a justice of the peace signed it to show a marriage had taken place, the sources said.
Charatan, who has her own brokerage on Madison Avenue, began having an affair with Durst after his wife, Kathleen, disappeared on Jan 31, 1982, real-estate sources said.
Charatan, who owns an apartment on Park Avenue and a swanky house in The Hamptons, didn’t return calls for comment.
Meanwhile, cops refused to say whether ballistics tests on a 9mm gun found in Durst’s car showed it was used to kill Durst’s friend, Susan Berman, in Los Angeles last December. Michael Kennedy, a lawyer for the Durst trust, said he believed the tests ruled this out.