Overview

• Kempton hit Burack, 40, on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays early June 19, leaving the luxury real estate agent with fatal head trauma and multiple broken bones.
• Burack, best known for Netflix’s Million Dollar Beach House, succumbed to her injuries later that day at Stony Brook University Hospital.
• Police arrested 32-year-old marine biologist Amanda Kempton from Virginia on June 20 and charged her on June 21 with a class D felony carrying up to four years in prison.
• In Southampton Town Justice Court, Kempton pleaded not guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal crash and was freed on $100,000 bail posted by her family.
• Her attorney argued she had mistaken the victim for a traffic cone, stressing that no alcohol was involved in the collision.