Keitha Ivey

[Tammi Menendez @TammiMenendez1]

Happy 27th Anniversary to my favorite person! ❤️ 27 years later, you still make me laugh and make life more fun every day. Here’s to exciting times ahead—because the best is yet to come! 🥂✨
#erikmenendez #happyanniversary

[Menendez Legacy | Fighting for Justice @MenendezLegacy]

#MenendezUpdate 🚨— @MenendezRand shared what’s next for Erik and Lyle Menendez after their 2025 parole denial.

An Aug. 2026 administrative review could move their hearing sooner. If not, attorneys may file to advance it. Their case remains active.

#JusticeForErikAndLyle

[Menendez Brothers Support @johanzc_k]

That look says everything.
Erik and Lyle had to endure loaded questions and constant insinuations.
Patience was survival.
#JusticeForErikAndLyle

[Tammi Menendez @TammiMenendez1]

Today, 36 years ago March 11th 1990 Erik was 19 years old when he was arrested and has been incarcerated since. I am praying for his Freedom which is long over due. #freedom #redemption #comehome

[JLM @truemenendez]

(1) As March 2026 begins, Lyle and Erik enter their 37th year behind bars—this time, with a renewed hope for freedom.

[Jeffgarden.com @ijeffgarden]

Chris Cornell
Pink Pop 2009

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[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Why intelligent people are always alone ‼️‼️

[JLM @truemenendez]

Thank you all for your unending support during this utterly miraculous year! ❤️

[JLM @truemenendez]

Listen to Anamaria tell her story….

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[Menendez Legacy | Fighting for Justice @MenendezLegacy]

Listen to Anamaria Baralt on the Right In Front Of My Face podcast as she speaks about her personal experience as the cousin of Erik and Lyle Menendez, and the impact of their case! #JusticeForErikAndLyle

🎥 https://t.co/1mqZkSUJHp

[Rob Rand Wants Justice for the Menendez Brothers @MenendezRand]

Via journalist Claudio Alvarez Dunne: Three years ago I was interviewed for the HBO documentary "Menudo Forever Young" about the articles I published in El Diario La Prensa in NYC regarding the allegations of abuse in the Boricua youth band in the late 80s.
The legal conclusion was that the case did not progress due to the poppyness of the Puerto Rico Prosecutor's Office and the absence of a formal claim.
Today a new door opens with this demand from Roy Rosselló that brings new evidence against Edgardo Diaz and the consequences could reach the possible release of the Melendez Brothers.

This is the report shared by my colleague Robert Rand about the demand: Former Menudo star Roy Rosselló sues the band's creator (Edgardo Diaz) for decades of rape and names Jose Menéndez as abuser in a shocking court presentation.
Roy Rosselló provides a detailed account of the abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of Edgardo Diaz. According to The Latin Times publication, former Menudo star Roy Rosselló has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in New York alleging years of sexual abuse by Edgardo Diaz, the powerful founder and manager of the iconic Latino boy band. The complaint, which demands a jury trial, also implies an impressive figure in the history of American music and denounces Jose Menendez, the executive of RCA Records who negotiated the Menudo deal for $30 million and the father of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered him and his mother in 1989.

Rosselló, now in his 50s and a resident of Florida, filed the 17-page complaint under the Gender-Motivated Violence Victims Protection Act. The lawsuit presents a detailed and heartbreaking account of sexual aggression, emotional manipulation and trafficking that covered multiple states and countries in the United States, including Brazil and Puerto Rico, between 1983 to 1986, when Rosselló was between 13 and 16 years old.

"After living with his trauma for nearly 40 years, Roy Rossello has bravely come forward to hold those responsible for his abuse accountable." Roy is one of the strongest and most believable individuals we have represented, and his story is one that will undoubtedly have a positive impact on the ever-changing landscape of child sexual abuse in this country. "We join Roy in asking that anyone with relevant information to come forward and help us with this important investigation," Rosselló's lawyer, Britanny Henderson, said in a statement.

The lawsuit accuses Diaz, now 77, of operating Menudo as a "front" to sexually exploit minors under the guise of a pop star. "Diaz's scheme was nothing but a blatant way to satiate his own predatory behavior," the complaint states.

But perhaps the most explosive revelation in the presentation is Rosselló's accusation that José Menéndez, then a senior executive of RCA Records, raped him multiple times while accompanying the band. According to the complaint, Diaz facilitated these encounters, including one at Menendez's house in New Jersey and another in a hotel room in New York City after a performance at Radio City Music Hall. Rosselló claims he was "in terrible pain for a week" and that he "could barely stand up." "

The lawsuit also states that Menéndez raped Rosselló in Brazil while he was on tour with Menudo, this time, with Diaz presumably present in the room. These statements directly link the patriarch of the Menendez family to the dark side of child abuse in the explosive rise of the Latino group in the 80s.

The Menéndez brothers have long asserted that their father was physically and sexually abusive, a key element in the defense during his 1993 trial and their recent efforts to be released, either through a new trial or pardon.
The rise of the pop band Menudo, founded in Puerto Rico in 1977 by Diaz, became one of the most successful Latin groups in history. For two decades, the band featured rotating members between the ages of 12 and 16, including future superstar Ricky Martin.

[Tammi Menendez @TammiMenendez1]

Happy Birthday to my incredible husband! I can't wait to celebrate with you when you get home! 🎉❤️
#erikmenendez #happybirthday

[Rob Rand Wants Justice for the Menendez Brothers @MenendezRand]

#MenendezBrothers 🧵
I appreciate all the attention and accolades that I've received over the past year which have led to an explosion of sales of the Updated Edition of "The Menendez Murders." But even though there has been been major progress in the case with the resentencing last May and the parole hearings in August, the #MenendezBrothers' story will not be over until Erik and Lyle Menendez are released and sent home to their family after 35 years and seven months of incarceration.

There are people who commit horrible crimes against strangers in California and some of them are out of prison in 15 or 20 years. This was a case of domestic violence and a complex family tragedy. The second Menendez trial was a complete miscarriage of justice when the jury was not allowed to hear the detailed evidence of family history and abuse that had been the heart of the defense case in the first trial.

The jury was allowed to learn that evidence in the penalty phase of the second trial where jurors had to decide between the death penalty and life without parole. Several second trial jurors told me, off the record, that they would't have voted for murder in the guilt phase of the Menendez retrial if they had heard that evidence of abuse earlier.
#JusticeForErikandLyle
#JusticeforRoy
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[Menendez Brothers Support @johanzc_k]

This fight doesn't stop!!! #JusticeForErikAndLyle #FreeTheMenendezBrothers

[Menendez Brothers Support @johanzc_k]

Free them!!!!!!! #JusticeForErikAndLyle

[Menendez Legacy | Fighting for Justice @MenendezLegacy]

One year ago today, members of the Menendez & Andersen families held a press conference in LA to announce the formation of the Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition. The coalition was created by the family to advocate for the Menendez brothers’ release. 🩵✊ #JusticeForErikAndLyle

[Rob Rand Wants Justice for the Menendez Brothers @MenendezRand]

One year ago today...
The #MenendezBrothers thought they would die inside a California prison until former L.A. County DA George Gascón had the courage to start a resentencing initiative that led to Erik and Lyle being resentenced on May 13, 2025 to 50 years to life from LWOP making them immediately eligible for parole. Thank you George Gascón and Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic.
What a difference a year makes!
Oct. 3, 2024:
Finally...
We are getting closer.
LA Times - More than three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in a sensational murder case that captivated the nation, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Thursday that his office would review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were molested, a move that could lead to their resentencing.

Gascón said there was no question the brothers committed the murders but said the issue was whether the jury heard evidence that their father molested them. Evidence detailing sexual abuse was presented during the brothers’ first trial, which ended in hung juries, but was largely withheld during their second trial, where they were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

“We’re not at this point ready to say we believe or do not believe that information,” Gascón said. “But we’re here to tell you that we have a moral and ethical obligation to review what is being presented to us and make a determination.”

The process could pave the way for the brothers to be retried, resentenced to a lesser prison term or released from custody. Gascón said he had not made a final decision.

In 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez bought a pair of shotguns with cash, walked into their Beverly Hills home and shot their parents while they watched a movie in the family living room. Prosecutors said Jose Menendez was struck five times, including in the back of the head, and Kitty Menendez crawled on the floor wounded before the brothers reloaded and fired a final fatal blast.

Initially, police speculated the killings were a mafia hit based off the gruesome scene. Erik and Lyle Menendez were eventually charged with murder after Erik, who was 18 years old, confessed to the killings to his therapist in March 1990.

Prosecutors argued the brothers’ motivation in the killings was simple: to gain access to their parents’ multimillion-dollar estate. But the brothers’ defense attorneys countered that years of violent sexual abuse at the hands of their father preceded the shootings, justifying the killings as a form of self-defense.

Gascón’s announcement comes more than a year after Erik and Lyle Menendez filed a writ of habeas corpus asking the court to vacate their 1996 conviction, citing new evidence.

A hearing on the habeas corpus is expected to be held on Nov. 26. Gascón said he wanted to “bring finality” to the case by the time the hearing was held but did not say that his review would be completed by then.

“They’re obviously looking at it closely, which is great,” said Cliff Gardner, one of the attorneys representing the brothers. “I’m encouraged by it because I think that anyone that takes a look at that evidence is going to walk away with the understanding those boys were molested as children.”

Gardner said, since the filing last year, prosecutors had asked the court several times to push back a date for the hearing in order to review the case. Despite the length of time it’s taken for a decision to be reached, he said he found it to be encouraging.

“The fact that they’re taking their time lets me know they’re taking it seriously,” he said.

The petition pointed to evidence from a Peacock docuseries, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” which raised allegations that Jose Menendez sexually assaulted a former underage member of the 1980s pop band Menudo.

The three-part series, reported by journalists Nery Ynclan and Robert Rand, alleged that the creator of the internationally known music group, Edgardo Díaz, took one of the underage members of the band to Jose Menendez’s New Jersey home, where he was raped and drugged by the elder Menendez.

In the docuseries, Roy Roselló said he was 13 or 14 years old at the time, and suggested the trip was to help seal a deal between the band and RCA Records, where Jose Menendez worked as an executive.

“This new evidence is indisputable,” Ynclan told The Times on Thursday, “and Lyle and Erik’s life didn’t end that horrible day.” The journalist added that the two brothers had been model prisoners and led rehabilitation programs for other inmates. “After 35 years, it’s past due to show these victims of incest the mercy they deserve.”

The brothers’ petition states that the new allegations of sexual abuse back their argument that the murders were an act of self-defense after facing years of abuse by their parents, and fears that their parents would kill them if they told.

The petition also details a recently discovered letter that defense attorneys say was written by Erik Menendez eight months before the 1989 shooting that suggests sexual abuse by his father continued into his late teenage years.

“I never know when its going to happen and its ... driving me crazy,” the letter, submitted in court filings, reads. “Every night I stay up thinking he might come in.”

The brothers’ first trial, which included testimony detailing the abuse, ended in two hung juries. In the second trial, much of the evidence of the abuse was excluded, according to the habeas petition. Prosecutors argued at the time that the allegations of abuse were “a total fabrication.”

The news comes on the heels of another show based on the Menendezes, an eight-part dramatic series on Netflix called “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” The show focuses on the events leading up to the killings and the cultural moment in Los Angeles in which the brothers faced murder charges.

Last month, Erik Menendez’s wife, Tammi Menendez, posted a statement on social media from him about the series and how the brothers were depicted, calling it “inaccurate” and that Lyle’s depiction was a “caricature” that was “rooted in horrible and blatant lies.”

“Monsters” co-creator Ryan Murphy defended himself in an interview with The Times last month.

The renewed spotlight on the case has prompted support for the incarcerated brothers. Kim Kardashian visited them in prison three weeks ago and penned a personal essay in which she called the brothers “kind, intelligent and honest men” and said their sentences should be reconsidered.

“We owe it to those little boys who lost their childhoods, who never had a chance to be heard, helped or saved,” she wrote.

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[JLM @truemenendez]

Forgive yourself for how you responded to abuse, betrayal, rejection, and cruelty inflicted on you by the people you trusted.

[JLM @truemenendez]

❤️

[JLM @truemenendez]

(1) The fight continues. This disappointing decision does not take away from the courage of Roy Rossello or the torment that he lived through at the hands of Jose Menendez.

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