Roy Rosselló, a former member of the enduring Eighties boy band Menudo, has claimed that he was drugged and raped by the late father of Erik and Lyle Menendez in a forthcoming Peacock docuseries.
Erik and Lyle, generally known as the Menendez brothers, had been convicted of the 1989 homicide of their mother and father, Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, on the household’s Beverly Hills Mansion. Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 on the time of the killings, wherein Jose was shot within the head whereas Kitty died from 15 gunshot wounds.
The siblings claimed that they shot their mother and father self-defense, after years of sexual abuse from their father, who was the then-head of RCA Data, the label that signed . A choose deemed the protection inadmissible, citing irrelevance, and in 1996, the Menendez brothers had been sentenced to life in jail with out parole.
In a snippet shared by At this time on Tuesday (April 18) from the upcoming docuseries titled Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed, Rosselló accuses Jose of sexual assault, noting that he was drugged and raped by the chief as an adolescent.
“That’s the person right here that raped me,” the now-51-year-old alleges, pointing to a photograph of Jose. “That’s the pedophile.”
“I do know what he did to me in his home,” he added, claiming that the band’s supervisor and creator Edgardo Diaz additionally sexually abused him, and was the one that took him to Menendez’s house, the place he was subsequently drugged and raped.
The clip additionally incorporates a cellphone dialog with Erik Menendez, who’s serving his sentence along with his brother at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. “It’s unhappy to know that there was one other sufferer of my father,” Erik is heard saying on the cellphone. “I at all times hoped and believed that in the future the reality about my dad would come out, however I by no means wished for it to return out like this – the results of trauma that one other baby has suffered.”
Watch the At this time clip beneath. Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed premieres Might 2 on Peacock.
