Former Menudo singer Roy Rosselló claims he was sexually abused by José Menendez, saying that the daddy of convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez – generally often known as the Menendez Brothers – sexually assaulted him when he was a teen.
Rosselló makes the startling claims in an upcoming three-part docuseries that may start airing on NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, on May 2.
The assertion first aired Tuesday, when NBC’s Today present outlined among the findings reported by the docuseries’ journalists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan.
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“I know what he did to me in his house,” Rosselló is heard saying in a clip from Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed. He alleges that José Menendez, who was an govt at RCA Records on the time, sexually assaulted him when he was a younger member of the favored Nineteen Eighties boy band.
He claimed the abuse occurred in Menendez’s New Jersey dwelling when Rosselló was 14 years outdated, and alleges he was drugged earlier than the alleged molestation.
“That’s the man here that raped me,” Rosselló says within the clip, pointing at what seems to be a photograph of Menendez. “This guy. That’s the pedophile.”
Singer Roy Rossello of the pop group Menudo poses for a portrait circa 1985 in New York City, N.Y.
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Menendez was affiliated with Menudo as a result of he had signed the group to RCA Records.
In the trailer, one other individual is seen saying that “José Menendez was obsessed with the band Menudo.” The docuseries then asserts that Rosselló’s claims might need modified issues in the course of the Menendez brothers’ trial for the murders of their dad and mom in 1989.
The Menendez murders
On Aug. 20, 1989, José and Mary Louise (who glided by the identify Kitty) Menendez had been brutally murdered inside their Beverly Hills Mansion.
The scene was so ugly that early hypothesis centered on the opportunity of a mob hit. According to Biography.com, the dad and mom had been rendered almost unidentifiable by 15 rounds from two 12-gauge shotguns.
But quickly the main target shifted to the couple’s sons, who had been 18 and 21-years-old on the time. At first, they maintained to police they’d stopped by their dad and mom’ home the night time of the killings to retrieve Erik’s ID whereas on the best way to a film, and found their slain dad and mom.
In this Oct. 20, 1995, file picture, Lyle Menendez appears up throughout testimony in his and brother Erik’s retrial for the shotgun slayings of their dad and mom in Los Angeles, Calif.
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However, Erik ultimately confided to his therapist that he and his brother had been liable for the killings and after the therapist shared the knowledge along with his spouse, the confession ultimately made its technique to police.
Lyle and Erik had been ultimately arrested for the murders and their trial kicked off an period of high-profile, televised felony trials that captured the general public’s creativeness via the ‘90s.
Despite defence arguments that José had sexually molested his two sons for years and that they killed their dad and mom out of concern, they had been convicted of first-degree homicide and sentenced to life with out parole. They served the primary a part of their sentences in separate jail, till they had been reunited in 2018 and allowed to serve their sentences in the identical facility.
In current years, many have questioned whether or not there might need been a completely different final result for the Menendez brothers in the event that they stood trial right this moment, given society’s modified understanding of sexual abuse and household violence.
The brothers’ prior appeals for a brand new trial have been denied.
Menudo’s earlier allegations
Rosselló beforehand accused Menudo supervisor Edgardo Díaz of sexually abusing him when he was a youngster.
In a four-part miniseries for HBO Max, which aired in 2022, different members of the band additionally stated they had been bodily, verbally, sexually and psychologically abused as a part of Menudo.
No one has ever been criminally charged in reference to the allegations.
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