Kim Kardashian visited a group of about 40 inmates, including brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County on Saturday to talk about prison reform, The Hollywood Reporter he learned.
Kardashian was also joined by actor Cooper Koch, who plays Erik in Ryan Murphy's film Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendezin addition to Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner and film producer and founder of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition Scott Budnick.
Erik and Lyle were convicted in 1996 of the murder of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. Both boys were sentenced to consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Kardashian and Koch's visit came two days after Erik harshly criticized Murphy's latest Netflix true-crime series, which chronicles the case. “It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy could not be so naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives as to do so without ill intent,” he wrote in a statement, which his wife Tammi Menendez posted to social media Thursday night.
“It is saddening to me that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime has pushed painful truths back several steps, back in time, to a time when prosecutors built a narrative around a belief system that men were not sexually abused and that men experienced the trauma of rape differently than women,” Erik’s statement continued. “Those horrific lies have been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims over the past two decades who overcame their personal shame and courageously spoke out. So now Murphy shapes his horrific narrative through vile and appalling portrayals of Lyle and me and disheartening slanders.”
The Menendez case and trial became a media sensation in the early 1990s. During their original trial in 1993, the brothers claimed they shot their parents after years of sexual abuse at the hands of their father and with their mother’s knowledge. Erik and Lyle were later convicted of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Kim, who recently starred in Murphy's film American Horror Story: Delicateregularly visits different prisons to learn and talk about prison reform and inmate rehabilitation programs. Earlier this year, Kim and Khloé visited two California prisons in Chowchilla, Valley State Prison and Central California Women's Facility.
TMZ News He was the first to report Kim and Koch's visit on Saturday.