Kim Kardashian has reportedly visited two brothers presently serving life sentences for the brutal homicide of their mother and father in California 35 years in the past.
Lyle and Erik Menendez had been convicted of taking pictures Jose and Kitty Menendez a number of instances at shut vary of their mansion in Beverly Hills on 20 August 1989. The brothers had been 21 and 18 on the time.
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(L-R): Lyle and Erik Menendez. Pics: Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility
A Netflix drama primarily based on the true-life crime is presently high of the Netflix viewing chart.
The brothers had been amongst inmates listening to Kardashian discuss jail reform at San Diego County’s Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility, based on US leisure outlet TMZ.
Each brothers have been concerned in a undertaking referred to as Greenspace, encouraging inmates to enhance the looks of jail yards to help of their rehabilitation.
Kim was stated to be together with her sister Khloé, her mom Kris, and the actor who performs Erik within the Netflix present, Cooper Koch.
Final week, the true Erik Menendez criticised the Netflix present, calling it “dishonest” and “inaccurate”, hitting out at what he referred to as “blatant lies” that made up the characterisation of his elder brother Lyle.
In a press release shared by Erik’s spouse Tammi on X, he stated: “I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show. I can only believe they were done so on purpose”.
He went on to accuse the present’s creator, Ryan Murphy, of “bad intent,” and stated the present put again the reason for male sexual assault victims by a few years.
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The brothers claimed they dedicated the murders in self-defence after a few years of alleged bodily, emotional and sexual abuse.
The prosecution argued they killed their mother and father to obtain a big inheritance.
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Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. Pic: Netflix
‘It is exhausting to see your life up on display’
Murphy, who made the primary sequence of Monster about US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, responded to the feedback, saying Erik had not truly seen the present, and that it was his obligation because the present’s creator to painting either side of the story.
Murphy advised Leisure Tonight: “It’s really hard, if it’s your life, to see your life up on screen…
“There have been 4 individuals concerned, two persons are lifeless, what concerning the mother and father? We had an obligation as storytellers to additionally attempt to put of their perspective primarily based on our analysis, which we did.”
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(L to R) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez. Pic: Netflix
Talking to reporters on the premiere of the sequence in Los Angeles final week, Cooper Koch stated he carried out a variety of analysis for the present.
The actor who performs Erik stated: “I just read everything that I could. I watched the entire trial. I slept with that trial on. So, like, I went to sleep listening to Erik [Menendez] and Leslie [Hope Abramson – the lawyer who defended the brothers] on the stand.”
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, stars Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez, and is streaming now on Netflix.
