Erik Menendez: Last News

Erik Menendez, the brothers who murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty, in 1989. Gascón’s office will ask a Los Angeles judge to lower their sentences from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life. If approved, the Menendez brothers would be eligible for parole immediately.

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said this week he would have a decision on the legal fate of the long incarcerated  Menendez Brothers, and he is making it public today.

Elizabeth Taylor On the eve of Lyle and Erik Menendez family members urging D.A. George Gascón to free the convicted brothers from prison, “Monsters” star Ari Graynor confirmed her ongoing support of their release after serving 34 years in prison for murdering their parents. “I only just saw it, but I am anxiously awaiting the D.A.’s decision and believe very much it is time for them to be out,” the actress, who portrays lawyer Leslie Abramson, on Oct.

In the middle of a bleak reelection campaign, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is clearly continuing to hope the Menendez brothers could shift his political fortunes.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer District Attorney George Gascón could announce as soon as this week that he is seeking to have the Menendez brothers released from prison. Lyle and Erik Menendez are serving sentences of life without parole for the August 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty. The Netflix series “Monsters” and the documentary “The Menendez Brothers” have brought renewed attention to their case and to the defense that they were both victims of their father’s sexual abuse.

Cooper Koch, the actor who plays Erik Menendez in the hit Netflix series Monsters, has revealed he cares a lot about the killer and believes his version of events.

Kim Kardashian is once again showing her support for Erik and Lyle Menendez.

A cut-for-time Halloween-themed “Weekend Update” sketch on Saturday Night Live was crawling with pop culture references, spoofing everything from the Menendez brothers (the subject of Ryan Murphy’s much-discussed Monsters anthology on Netflix) to The Golden Bachelorette.

Did you know Cooper Koch has a twin brother?!

Ryan Murphy opened up about his hit series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Netflix's latest season of Monsters is based on the horrifying true story of two brothers who murdered their parents in the 1980s, and it has become a sensation on the streaming platform.

Cooper Koch is explaining why he has been seen wearing a “wedding ring” even though he is not married.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The family of Lyle and Erik Menendez held a press conference Wednesday to urge D.A. George Gascón to help free the brothers, who have served 34 years in prison for murdering their parents.

Someone surprising doesn’t feel Lyle and Erik Menendez should be in prison for the rest of their lives… No, not Netflix viewers. The LA County District Attorney! And a newly-uncovered letter may be key in helping them get out. The infamous brothers are back on everyone’s mi

Despite a waffling press conference earlier this month, the fate and freedom of the long-imprisoned Menendez brothers may have already been decided by the Los Angeles County District Attorney.

Monster series will see Tom Hollander star as Alfred Hitchcock.Murphy recently announced that season three will star Charlie Hunnam as the 1950s serial killer Ed Gein. He became infamous when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains.Now according to Variety, Hollander, Hacks star Laurie Metcalf and The Crown‘s Olivia Williams have been added to the cast.Metcalf will play Gein’s mother, Augusta, while Williams will play Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife.It is thought that because Gein served as one of the inspirations for Norman Bates and Hitchcock’s film Psycho, season three of the hit Netflix anthology will delve into how his crimes influenced the film and the novel upon which the movie was based.Hollander recently worked with Murphy on the second season of Feud as Truman Capote in the the series.Elsewhere, Murphy recently suggested that he might not be finished with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.Following the news that a court hearing has been set for Erik and Lyle Menendez, and that new evidence that they were allegedly molested by their father is now being considered, Murphy has expressed an interest in extending the season.The show charts the brothers’ conviction and sentencing to life in prison for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.Following its release Erik blasted Murphy in a statement, calling the show naive and inaccurate.

Cooper Koch has FINALLY revealed whether or not that was his real peen in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story!

“Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” Monday and clarified something about his role as Erik Menendez in Netflix’s smash hit “Monsters.”Andy Cohen was counting down Hollywood’s “top five most iconic full-frontal moments” when Koch announced, “Just to say, mine was not a prosthetic.”“Well, that was gonna be my next question!” Cohen, 56, said to Koch, who smiled at the camera upon making his confession.“Congratulations to you, Cooper,” the “Real Housewives” producer added.“Thank you,” Koch said back.Cohen then told the openly gay actor he’s “very blessed” — to which Koch replied, “Well hung.”Koch had to bare it all for a scene in “Monsters,” which follows the story of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who murdered their abusive parents in 1989 and were sentenced to life in prison in 1996.During Episode 3, Koch’s Erik is showering naked in jail and turns toward another inmate to show him — and the camera — his penis.In an interview with The Wrap last month, Koch revealed the lengths he went to prepare to play Erik in the show.“I turned my trailer into Erik’s room so I had clothes everywhere, and I had pictures of him on the wall, pictures of me too,” Koch said. “I looked at videos of me when I was really young, and I watched how my parents treated me, which gave me a level of gratitude for my family and my parents.”“I listened to [Erik] and watched him religiously,” he added.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has advice for Erik and Lyle Menendez.

TMZ at LAX on Sunday and shared her advice for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who may finally be getting out of prison almost 30 years after they were convicted of killing their parents.“It’s very difficult to come out to a world that has changed so much even in the time that I spent,” said Blanchard, who served seven years in prison for the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.“Reacclimating is a difficult thing,” she added. “I would say take your time, you know, adjust properly and get therapy because you need it in this kind of world [and] day and age.”In 2016, Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, although she got out early in December 2023.Her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, stabbed her mom to death in her Springfield, Mo., home in 2015.

Netflix show Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was released on Netflix on September 19, and stars Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as the Menendez brothers, who murdered their parents José and Kitty with a shotgun in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.To this day, the brothers, who were aged 18 and 21 at the time, claim they acted in self-defence after years of alleged sexual abuse by their father, portrayed by Javier Bardem in the show.And now, Lyle has made the allegation that their therapist Dr. Jerome Oziel, whom they had been seeing since before the murders, blackmailed the brothers into making a confession of the killings in 1990.A major incident in the original case came about when police seized a tape from Oziel, following a tip-off from the therapist’s mistress and patient, Judalon Smyth.