Erik Menendez, one of many two Menendez brothers who gunned down their mother and father inside their Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, mansion in 1989, is condemning what he describes as a “dishonest portrayal” of their story in a brand new documentary.
Joseph Menendez, who goes by his center identify Lyle, and his brother, Erik, shot their mother and father, Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menendez. They have been each convicted within the murders and ordered to serve life in jail in 1996, however they’ve not too long ago been looking for diminished sentences.
“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present. I can solely consider they have been finished so on objective. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the info of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent,” Erik mentioned in a press release that his spouse, Tammi Menendez, posted to X.
The documentary, “The Menendez Brothers,” which options interviews with each brothers, premieres on Netflix Oct. 7. A press launch for the movie guarantees to “provide one other perspective — that of the brothers themselves.”
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Erik and Lyle Menendez hear throughout their trial within the Nineties. (Ted Soqui/Sygma)
The documentary can even element the brothers’ allegations that their father sexually assaulted them.
However at the least one brother doesn’t seem like proud of the ultimate product.
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The Menendez brothers — Erik, left, and Lyle — on the steps of their Beverly Hills residence in November 1989. (Ronald L. Soble/Los Angeles Instances)
“It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by way of time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma otherwise than ladies,” Erik mentioned in his assertion shared by Tammi.
“These terrible lies have been disputed and uncovered by numerous courageous victims during the last 20 years who’ve damaged by way of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by way of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
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Erik additional demanded to “[l]et the reality stand as the reality.”
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“How demoralizing to know that one man with energy can undermine many years of progress in shedding gentle on childhood trauma,” he continued within the assertion. “Violence is rarely a solution, by no means an answer, and is all the time tragic. As such, I hope it’s by no means forgotten that violence towards a baby creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and infrequently uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned. To all those that have reached out and supported me, thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”
The brothers’ attorneys have argued they need to have been convicted of manslaughter reasonably than homicide, through which case they already would have been launched from jail.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
