A lawyer for Kathie Durst’s family says they will drop their $100 million wrongful death suit against Robert Durst — if the accused killer comes clean.
“Just to be 100 percent clear if, in the next 48 hours, Durst or one of his co-defendants tells us where he dumped Kathie’s body so we can retrieve it, we would immediately drop this lawsuit against him,” family attorney Bob Abrams told The Post outside court Thursday.
Lawyers for Durst — who is a member of the wealthy New York real estate clan that built, among other things, 1 World Trade Center — have claimed that his late ex-wife’s siblings are just after his money.
Durst is currently jailed in Los Angeles on murder charges. He’s suspected of killing his friend Susan Berman in 2000 to prevent her from talking to prosecutors about his possible involvement in Kathie’s 1982 disappearance.
Kathie’s sisters- sued Durst, his second wife Debrah Lee Charaton and ex-cop Edward Wright in 2015 shortly after Durst was arrested for Berman’s murder.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Durst’s lawyers bought time to argue why Nassau County Court Justice Roy Mahon should seal a letter that may implicate him in Kathie’s death. The judge will determine after June 14 whether to make the letter public.
The missive was written by Wright, who was hired by Durst’s criminal defense attorney to do a shadow investigation into the NYPD’s 1980s probe of Kathie’s disappearance.
Abrams claims Wright’s statements in the Feb. 12 letter “inculpate Durst in the disappearance and murder of Kathleen McCormack Durst.”
Durst has said he is not responsible for either Berman or Kathie’s deaths.