Viewers of Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story are criticizing how Ryan Murphy portrayed the brothers’ relationship with one another. The present recounts what went on earlier than and after the ugly homicide of their dad and mom Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Erik and Lyle claimed they have been sexually and emotionally abused by their father Jose which triggered them to homicide their dad and mom. The brothers testified that their father had begun molesting them at a younger age and that their mom had recognized about it.
In episode 2 of the Netflix sequence, Lyle (Nicholas Chavez) crops a kiss on his brother Erik’s (Cooper Koch) lips. The brothers are very open as they’re normally touching and feeling one another, however many viewers thought it was an excessive amount of for the narrative and strayed away from the precise drawback of sexual abuse. “The Menendez brothers have been victims of sexual abuse who lastly retaliated towards their abusers and this disgusting piece of trash has turned their story into an incestuous fanfic. Hell just isn’t sizzling sufficient for Ryan Murphy,” one particular person wrote in a viral put up on X. However was their incestuous factual?
Have been the Menendez Brothers lovers in actual life?
There’s no proof that the Menendez Brothers have been lovers. Throughout the trial, one juror theorized that the motive for his or her dad and mom’ homicide was as a result of they have been in love with one another. Robert Rand recalled in his ebook The Menendez Murders: The Surprising Untold Story of the Menendez Household and the Killings that Shocked the Nation that the jury had requested to learn again “all testimony or allusions to Erik’s homosexuality.” Nevertheless, the speculation was thrown out and the trial led to a hung jury.
Trial knowledgeable Robert Rand stated that he doesn’t “imagine that Erik and Lyle Menendez have been ever lovers.” He informed The Hollywood Reporter. “I believe that’s a fantasy that was within the thoughts of Dominick Dunne [the reporter portrayed in the series by Nathan Lane]. Rumors have been going across the trial that possibly there was some form of bizarre relationship between Erik and Lyle themselves. However I imagine the one bodily contact they could have had is what Lyle testified, that when Lyle was 8 years outdated, he took Erik out within the woods and performed with him with a toothbrush — which is what [their father] José had accomplished with him. And so I actually wouldn’t name {that a} sexual relationship of any type. It’s a response to trauma.”
Is Erik Menendez Homosexual?
Erik Menendez’s sexuality largely performed out within the first trial. Prosecutor Lester Kuriyama repeatedly tried to convey up the difficulty of Erik’s sexuality, however Decide Weissberg refused to permit it. Throughout his closing argument, he argued to the jury that Jose had not pressured Erik into gay acts, however was the truth is livid that Erik was homosexual.
Nevertheless, Erik informed Barabra Walters in 1996 that he’s not homosexual. “The prosecutor introduced that up as a result of I used to be sexually molested. He felt in his personal pondering that I used to be sodomized by my father, I will need to have loved it,” he informed the reporter. “Numerous homosexual folks really feel linked to me.”
Erik Menendez is at the moment married to Tammi Ruth Saccoman. The 2 wed at Folsom State Jail in a jail ready room. In the meantime, Lyle was married Anna Erikkson from 1996 to 2001. He’s at the moment married to Rebecca Sneed.
