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Ryan Murphy now says he doesn’t actually believe Lyle and Erik Menendez had an incestuous relationship, despite his portrayal of the brothers in Netflix’s monsters, he told Vanity Fair.
“There’s a lot of controversy about the incest,” Murphy said, “I don’t think that the Menendez brothers had incest, personally, but there are people who say they did.” Murphy told the magazine it was worth including because “Dominick Dunne and other journalists and people…this was presented as evidence in court as a theory as to why these crimes might’ve happened.”
Murphy has been defending the series, which follows the lives of the brothers leading up to their conviction for murdering their parents in 1989, since it premiered on Netflix. The brothers slammed the series from prison, where they are still serving life sentences. Erik wrote in a message posted to Lyle’s Facebook page, “How demoralizing to know that one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma,” and added, “Is the truth not enough?”
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