Kim Kardashian dropped by a San Diego County prison on Saturday to chat about reform with around 40 inmates, including the famous Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Kim wasn’t alone – she brought along some interesting company. There was Cooper Koch, who plays Erik in Ryan Murphy‘s new show about the brothers, plus Kim’s sister Khloé, mom Kris Jenner, and Scott Budnick, a film producer who started the Anti-Recidivism Coalition.
It’s wild to think the Menendez brothers have been behind bars since 1996. They got life without parole for killing their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. That case was everywhere back then.
This visit happened just after Erik spoke out against Murphy’s Netflix series about their case, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. He didn’t hold back, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”
Erik went on, clearly upset: “It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward — back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women. Those awful lies have been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims over the last two decades who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
The Menendez case was huge news back in the early ’90s. The brothers said they killed their parents after years of sexual abuse by their dad, which they claimed their mom knew about. But in the end, they were found guilty of planned murder.
It’s interesting to see Kim, who was just in Murphy’s American Horror Story: Delicate, visiting prisons like this. She’s been doing it a lot, learning about how to help inmates and change the system. Earlier this year, she and Khloé checked out two women’s prisons in Chowchilla.
TMZ actually broke the news about Kim and Koch’s prison visit on Saturday (Sep. 21, 2024). It’s cool to see celebrities using their fame to shine a light on these issues. It makes you wonder what changes might come from visits like these.
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