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Rosie O’Donnell has revealed that she’s been in contact with imprisoned murderer Lyle Menéndez and has grown “very close” to him — she also argues that both Lyle and his brother Erik Menéndez should be released from prison immediately.
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In 1993, four years after the slaying of José and Mary Louise Menéndez, Lyle and Erik were found guilty of murdering their parents. The brothers never denied the murders throughout the case, but defense attorneys essentially argued that the killings were an act of self defense after years of sexual abuse, largely at the hands of their father, who was an RCA Records executive at the time.
On TikTok, Rosie said she has “known” the brothers were innocent, even relaying that Lyle sent her a letter in 1996.
“The letter basically said, ‘I know you know, and I hope we could connect.’ And you know, he was right. I did know that they were innocent. I did know that those were boys who had been incested,” the former “A League Of Their Own” actress said. “Why I knew, and how I knew — Lyle also knew. I didn’t write him back because I felt afraid, and I wasn’t ready to touch the subject, and you know, it was 1996.”
Back then, “people weren’t ready to accept the fact that boys too get raped, sometimes by their fathers, and as a culture, we ridiculed them,” she said.
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During the court process, there was some public belief that the Menéndez Brothers killed their wealthy parents for the inheritance.
Rose argued that Lyle and Erik, who were 18 and 21 years old at the time of their 1993 trial, were “kids who had been molested since the age of preschool, fighting back and standing up, and people thought they just wanted the money. They had the money. They didn’t need the money. Money was not what it was about.”
Initially, the brothers were tried separately in court, but the trials ended in hung juries. They were later tried together, and both men were eventually convicted on two counts of second degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Afterward, a judge sentenced them to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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After watching the “Menéndez & Menudo: Boys Betrayed” documentary, in which former boy bander Roy Rosselló claims Jose molested him, Rosie connected with Lyle.
“So, we believe them now because of Roy from Menudo? Do we believe now because of the letter Erik sent his cousin eight months before the murder?” she asked. “It’s time. I believe them.”
“They were horribly abused by their parents, they did the unthinkable, which had been done to them day after day after day, and they paid the price for that,” she continued. “Free the Menéndez brothers.”
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