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Kim Kardashian and Cooper Koch, star of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, reportedly paid a go to this weekend to convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez, together with different prisoners, at San Diego County’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.
Yesterday, Erik Menendez’s spouse Tammi posted a press release on social media describing Ryan Murphy’s Netflix collection Monsters as “dishonest” and “disheartening slander.”
In line with TMZ, Kardashian was joined by her sister Khloe Kardashian, her mom Kris Jenner and movie producer Scott Budnick together with Koch, who performs Erik Menendez within the new collection.
Kardashian, a longtime advocate for felony justice reform, is claimed to have mentioned jail reform with the inmates. She additionally spoke of the Greenspace venture, which inspires rehabilitation by beautifying jail yards, which each Menendez brothers have been concerned in.
The brothers are serving life sentences for the 1989 murders of their dad and mom, José and Kitty. They have been arrested for first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide outdoors their house in March 1990 and sentenced in 1996. In 2024, new proof emerged that has the potential to set them free.
Monsters stars Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as José and Kitty, with Koch and Nicholas Chavez because the brothers.
In a press release posted to X/Twitter by his spouse Tammi, Erik Menendez responded to the collection by saying: “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 imagine they have been accomplished so on objective.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I imagine Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the details of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.
“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 via 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 in a different way than girls.
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“These terrible lies have been disputed and uncovered by numerous courageous victims over the past 20 years who’ve damaged via their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative via vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.
“Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralizing to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma. Violence isn’t a solution, by no means an answer, and is at all times tragic.
“As such, I hope it’s by no means forgotten that violence in opposition to a baby creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and barely 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 Unbiased has contacted Murphy’s consultant for his response to the assertion.
Because the collection arrived on Netflix on Thursday, viewers have been cautioning others on social media in regards to the graphic nature of the violence depicted within the present.
