Kim Kardashian Met With Menendez Brothers In Prison After Netflix Series Premiered
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The reality star, a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform, has been visiting prisons throughout California to hear people’s stories.
Days after the premiere of a controversial Netflix docudrama about Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989, Kim Kardashian visited them at the San Diego prison where they are serving life sentences.
Kardashian has in recent years used her platform to advocate for criminal justice reform and has toured a number of prisons throughout California with film producer Scott Budnick, who founded the Anti-Recidivism Coalition.
The two had already planned to visit the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Budnick told HuffPost. But after Kardashian met Cooper Koch, one of the stars of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” a dramatization of the case, Budnick told her the Mendendez brothers were there, and their trip to the prison was “expedited.”
Erik Menendez, played by Koch in “Monsters,” released a statement through his wife criticizing the show, calling it “full of lies.” But Budnick told HuffPost that the brothers “understand the net positive” of the series, despite its flaws.
“I know that both of them understand that, ultimately, the Netflix series is a fair series that shows their arrogance, but also shows that they went through sexual abuse and trauma that none of us would wish on our worst enemy,” Budnick said of the show, which was created by Ryan Murphy.
