Durst's landlord wife hits tenants with $10M defamation suit

Oddball millionaire Robert Durst is on trial for allegedly killing his best friend, yet his wife is worried about her reputation — as a landlord.

Two real-estate firms owned by Durst’s second wife, Debra Lee Charatan, and her son filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against tenants for labeling the duo “abusive landlords” and calling Durst — who’s facing charges that he shot pal Susan Berman — a “murderous and animal-decapitating sociopath” on a series of websites.

BCB Property Management Inc., which is co-owned by Charatan, and Novel Property Ventures, partly controlled by her son Bennant Charatan Berger, filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court late Thursday.

Durst is not directly involved in the firms, but it’s widely believed that Charatan used millions her husband received from his family’s real-estate empire to start BCB Property Management.

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