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Kim Kardashian visits Lyle and Erik Menendez in prison amid Netflix show controversy | Ents & Arts News
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Kim Kardashian visits Lyle and Erik Menendez in prison amid Netflix show controversy | Ents & Arts News

Kim Kardashian has reportedly visited two brothers who are currently serving life sentences for the brutal murder of their parents in California 35 years ago.

Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of shooting Jose and Kitty Menendez multiple times at close range in their Beverly Hills mansion on August 20, 1989. The brothers were 21 and 18 years old at the time.

Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez. Photos: Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
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(L-R): Lyle and Erik Menendez. Photos: Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility

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According to US entertainment channel TMZ, the brothers were among the inmates who listened to Kardashian’s speech on prison reform at the Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.

Both brothers are involved in the Greenspace project, which encourages prisoners to improve the appearance of their prison yards and thus contribute to their rehabilitation.

Kim is said to be with her sister Khloé, her mother Kris and the actor who plays Erik in the Netflix series, Cooper Koch.

Last week, the real Erik Menendez criticized the Netflix series, calling it “unfair” and “inaccurate” and calling out what he called “blatant lies” in its characterization of his older brother Lyle.

In a statement shared on X by Erik’s wife Tammi, he said, “I believed we had moved past the lies and the ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, and had created a caricature of Lyle that was rooted in the horrible and blatant lies that were rampant on the show. I can only believe they were done that way on purpose.”

He accused the series’ creator Ryan Murphy of “malicious intent” and said the show set back the issue of male victims of sexual abuse by many years.

The brothers claimed they committed the killings in self-defense, after years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

The prosecution alleged that they murdered their parents to receive a large inheritance.

Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Photo: Netflix
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Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Photo: Netflix

‘It’s hard to see your life on screen’

Murphy, who created the first season of Monster about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, responded to the backlash by saying that Erik had not seen the series and that it was his duty as the creator of the series to show both sides of the story.

Murphy told Entertainment Tonight: “It’s really hard, when it’s your life, to see your life on screen…

“There were four people involved, two people are dead, what about the parents? We had a duty as storytellers to also try to give their perspective based on our research, which we did.”

(From left to right) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez. Photo: Netflix
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(From left to right) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez. Photo: Netflix

Cooper Koch told reporters at the series premiere in Los Angeles last week that he did a lot of research for the show.

The actor who plays Erik said, “I just read everything I could. I watched the whole trial. I slept with that trial on. So I went to sleep listening to Erik (Menendez) and Leslie (Hope Abramson – the lawyer defending the brothers) on the stand.”

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, starring Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Cooper Koch, and Nicholas Alexander Chavez, is now available to stream on Netflix.