![]() Meanwhile, Lyle returned to Princeton, but not to attend classes. THE MENENDEZ HOME IN BEVERLY HILLS Splash News He practiced up to 10 hours a day and flew to the Middle East to compete. He decided to forgo attending UCLA and instead hired a tennis coach for $60,000 a year in the hopes of going pro. Erik bought a Rolex too, and clothes, and lost thousands of dollars gambling. Their adjoining apartments had ample room for parties and movie nights with friends. The brothers moved out of the family's Beverly Hills mansion and stayed in a series of expensive hotels before finally leasing condominiums on the water in Marina Del Rey. ![]() Sitting next to his father’s secretary Marzi Eisenberg in the limo home from the services, he showed off his leather loafers and quipped, “Hey, Marzi, who said I couldn’t fill my father’s shoes?” Then he wondered aloud to another friend in the car how he could obtain tickets to the U.S. On August 24, 1989, the day before his parents’ funeral, Lyle dropped over $15,000 on three Rolex watches, as witnesses and he would later testify. Over the course of those those six months, they reportedly spent $1 million on parties, travel, and shopping. But they weren’t arrested until half a year after the murders-and the boys painted Los Angeles red in the interim. We know these details exist because the brothers confessed them all, eventually. Credit: Fabiola Franco/Tribune Broadcasting/Getty Images Lyle’s hysterical whine of “Someone killed our parents!” in his 911 call would later be lampooned in a Jim Carrey movie. They tossed the guns and changed into clean, unbloodied clothes, before driving back to their house and pretending to discover the scene all over again. Then the brothers, who were 21 and 18 at the time, drove to a movie theater and bought tickets for Batman. Erik said that he fired first, but in the end Lyle fired best: He landed the bullet in the back of Jose’s head, and shot the fatal blow into Kitty’s face. On August 20, they burst into the den of their home and discharged 15 shots into their parents while the couple was watching television on the couch. On August 19, their parents chartered a yacht and took them shark fishing. ![]() On August 18, 1989, Eric and Lyle Menendez purchased shotguns at a Big 5 Sporting Goods chain store in San Diego over a hundred miles away from their family’s mansion in Beverly Hills. And then of course there’s the question: Was greed at the heart of this crime-are Lyle and Eric the most extreme spoiled brats in Beverly Hills? Or is there something so evil at the core of this family that the brothers’ actions might have been justified? It’s their theatricality that has made the Menendez men so infamous, their flare for courtroom drama and off-putting outfits, and the brazen nature of their behavior between the murder and their arrests. The brothers have admitted to killing their parents. Simpson, Caylee Anthony, the Zodiac Killer, and the Black Dahlia-there is no mystery around the murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez. Unlike other endlessly popular true-crime stories-JonBenet Ramsey, O.J. Right: The Menendez Murders, a Law & Order mini-series, will depict the infamous court case. “This is the testimony that Erik and Lyle needed when they were sentenced to life,” says one person in the “Menendez + Menudo” trailer.Left: A scene from the Lifetime movie, which aired in June. This new information from Rosselló has the potential to bring a new light to the Menendez brothers, who were cast off as money-hungry, cold-blooded killers during their trial as a response to Lyle and Erik’s lavish spending spree following their parents’ murders. Members of Menudo have previously voiced allegations that they were abused while a part of the band, revealed in their HBO Max docuseries, “Menudo: Forever Young.” The docuseries is based on the reporting of journalists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan and tells Rossello’s story of alleged abuse by not only Jose, but by another manager of Menudo. ![]() Jose Menendez was head of RCA Records during the time the alleged assault took place. Rosselló points to a photo of Jose during the clip and says, “That’s the man here that raped me. In a clip from the “Today” segment, Rosselló alleges that when he was 14, Jose Menendez drugged and raped him during a trip to the Menendez family’s New Jersey home. A new docuseries coming to puts the infamous case of the Menendez brothers back in the spotlight and includes explosive new allegations against their late father.
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