Kim Kardashian paid a go to to Erik and Lyle Menendez days after Ryan Murphy‘s newest installment within the Monster anthology collection premiered.
On Saturday, Sept. 21, a supply tells PEOPLE that Kardashian, 43, and Cooper Koch, who performs Erik within the Netflix collection, spent a while in San Diego on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, the place both the Menendez brothers have been incarcerated since they were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for the murder of their parents.
Kardashian and Koch, 28, had been there to speak with the brothers in regards to the Green Space project, which the California Division of Corrections & Rehabilitation is spearheading in an effort to fight excessive recidivism charges by making life in jail extra intently resemble the skin world.
Kardashian has been advocating for prison reform since 2018 and has been finding out to become a lawyer. The truth star helped Alice Johnson get launched from a life sentence after studying about her story on X (previously generally known as Twitter) in October 2017. In Could 2019, she helped negotiate the release of another low-level drug offender from prison and met with then-imprisoned Slam star Momolu Stewart, who was convicted of homicide and served 22 years in jail.
The SKMIS founder has visited the White Home a number of occasions to debate jail reform, just lately participating in a roundtable discussion with Vice President Kamala Harris on the topic in April. Kardashian met up with Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was released from prison in December 2023 after serving more than eight years, in a July episode of The Kardashians to speak about adjustments that might be made to the authorized system and the way Blanchard, 33, might be influential in that house.
Erik, now 53, and Lyle, 56, shot their mother and father José and Kitty Menendez inside their household house in Beverly Hills on Aug. 20, 1989. They had been tried thrice associated to the murders, and each brothers alleged that José was bodily, emotionally and sexually abusive and that Kitty was hooked on medicine and alcohol, bodily abusive and enabled her husband’s abuse.
In Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Koch performs Erik alongside Nicholas Alexander Chavez’s Lyle, and Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny play their mother and father José and Kitty.
Following the collection’ premiere on Netflix on Sept. 19, Erik launched a statement on Lyle’s Fb web page slamming the portrayal of him and his brother as he mirrored on the trauma and abuse they skilled of their childhood.
“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present,” Erik started the assertion. “I can solely consider they had been achieved so on goal. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the information of our lives in order to do that with out unhealthy intent.”
He continued, “It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by means of time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma otherwise than girls.
Erik claimed that the portrayals of him and his brother had been “vile and appalling” and accused Murphy, 58, of “disheartening slander.”
“Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality,” Erik wrote. “How demoralizing is it to know that one man with energy can undermine many years of progress in shedding gentle on childhood trauma.”
Erik concluded his assertion by thanking those that “have reached out and supported” him.
Representatives for Murphy and Netflix didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is now streaming on Netflix.