The Menendez Family
José Menendez was a wealthy record executive who lived with his wife, Kitty, and two sons, Lyle and Erik, in New Jersey before moving to Los Angeles in 1986 to break into the film industry. The 16- and 19-year-old boys had both recently gotten into trouble, the former having fallen into the only bad crowd at Beverly Hills High School, who liked to commit casual burglary, and the latter having been suspended from Princeton for plagiarism. As we said, rich douchebags.
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The Dark Family Secret (Maybe)
The Menendez brothers claim their seemingly charmed existence obscured a much bleaker reality: that José Menendez sexually abused his sons from the time they were little. Some family members testified that they were told about the abuse at the time, but others claim Lyle, the older brother, cobbled the story together from books he read in jail. Whatever the case, José Menendez was by all accounts a demanding father who put immense pressure on his sons to become star athletes and not what anyone would call “warm and fuzzy.”