The 1993 Menendez murder trial, subject of Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,’ seemed like an open-and-shut case. Then defense attorney Leslie Abramson vowed to discredit therapist L. Jerome Oziel—and she was able to, thanks in part to his mistress, Judalon Smyth.
As Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story recalls in its controversial, true-crime-camp glory, the tale of Beverly Hills brothers Lyle and Erik brutally murdering their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, in 1989 was an American horror story. It had all the elements to transfix a nation—spoiled, attractive Beverly Hills brothers who made some seriously bone-headed decisions and allegations of sexual abuse in the country’s most elite zip code.
After she realized she could not afford Oziel’s sessions, she became sexually involved with the psychologist, and dysfunctionally enmeshed in both his marriage and the Menendez case. After Oziel broke up with her, Smyth told authorities that Oziel possessed taped confessions from the Menendez brothers. Even though she had never met the Menendez brothers, Smyth became a star for the defense.
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