WHITE PLAINS, Feb. 6 - Robert A. Durst, the real estate scion acquitted of murder in Texas despite admitting that he carved up his 71-year-old neighbor, cut the last ties to his family and 10 Manhattan skyscrapers on Monday in return for a payout of about $65 million.

Mr. Durst, long estranged from his family, agreed in Westchester County Surrogate's Court to settle a lawsuit he had brought against the Durst family trusts and the trustees: his younger brother Douglas; a cousin, Jonathan; and a lawyer, Richard Siegler. The value of the settlement was described in court as "blank," but people on both sides of the dispute said Mr. Durst would get more than $60 million.

Although he received more than $2 million a year from the trusts -- "more money than I could possibly spend," he has said in court testimony -- Mr. Durst sought to remove the trustees because, he claimed, they had acted to bar his wife from being able to inherit his stake in the trusts. The trustees said in court papers that if Mr. Durst was successful it would have led to the dismantling of the family's real estate empire, which includes the Condé Nast Building in Times Square.

In the end, money prevailed.

Mr. Durst, 62, was not actually in the White Plains courtroom Monday. Instead, his brief testimony before Judge Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. came via speakerphone from a minimum-security holding center in Houston, where he is serving 60 days for a parole violation. Mr. Durst explained that he was sitting in the "captain's office."