Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez, Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez (left to correct) in episode 8 of Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.
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Erik Menendez spoke out in opposition to the model new Netflix sequence, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which revisits the trials that convicted him and his brother, Lyle, of murdering their mom and father.
In an announcement shared by his partner, Tammi Menendez, on X, Erik criticized the current, saying it misleadingly portrayed him and his brother and there are “blatant lies rampant inside the current.” He accused co-creator Ryan Murphy of intentionally distorting the knowledge surrounding their crime.
“Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander,” he said inside the put up shared on Thursday.

Erik added, “It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a lot of steps backward — once more by time to an interval when the prosecution constructed a narrative on a notion system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males expert rape trauma in any other case than women.”
Ryan Murphy Productions and Netflix did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
In 1989, José and Kitty Menendez have been shot and killed of their Beverly Hills mansion. On the time, Lyle and Erik have been 21 and 18. Police initially believed that members of a mafia went after their mom and father. Nevertheless the brothers later said that they killed their mom and father on account of years of bodily, emotional and sexual abuse.
In 1993, their trial was aired on nationwide television, becoming a media sensation that sharply divided public opinion on the brothers’ motives — whether or not or not they acted in response to abuse or for greed for the mom and father’ fortune.
A cousin backed the safety’s claims of molestation, saying Erik had previously talked about it. Nevertheless prosecutors argued that the abuse claims were fabricated and the brothers have been instead motivated by greed, significantly to inherit 1000’s and 1000’s of {{dollars}}.
Their first trial led to deadlocked juries. Nevertheless after a retrial, the place the select did not allow the safety to fully present the brothers’ sexual abuse claims, Erik and Lyle have been found accountable of murder and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole in 1996. Every are serving time in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Southern California.
Nearly 30 years since their convictions, Netflix is revisiting the brothers’ crime and court docket docket proceedings in a 9-episode drama starring Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle and Cooper Koch as Erik. In a press launch, Netflix described the sequence as exploring the question “Who’re the true monsters?”
It is the second season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology sequence. The first season regarded on the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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