

The Menendez family in 1988, one year before the double murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez at their mansion in.

My articles appeared in the Miami Herald, People, and Playboy as well as many foreign magazines. What was Jose Menendez's net worth Jose and Kitty Menendez's net worth was estimated to be around 14.5 million at that time. The two murdered their parents to inherit their fortune. They were brought up in the lavish Beverley Hills by their affluent parents. She was a very, uh, aggressive, dynamic person, and I, we, you know, I was fearful beyond really all words and, uh, I don't know. The Menendez case became an international sensation that was a major story in the United States and other countries. The Menendez brothers' (Erik and Lyle) were sons of Jose and Kitty Menendez. "My father was a powerful film man in his 40s, executive, very threatening man-uh, and my mother also was not like a submissive battered wife. "I was dealing with-just a horrifying situation," Menendez told Kelly. While the prosecutors argued the brothers murdered their parents to obtain the family's fortune, Kelly continued, the defense said the murders were caused by a history of abuse. In the first trial, there was testimony from family members, friends, teachers, coaches, etc who witnessed Jose and Kitty Menendez mistreating their. While Kitty was still a child her father abandoned the family to move in with a mistress.

Her home life was very unhappy, with a cruel, abusive father and a despondent, battered mother. Kelly said officials initially suspected the Mafia or a bad business relationship as culprits however, the brothers were arrested seven months into the investigation. Kitty Menendez was born to a middle-class family in suburban Chicago, where her father owned an air-conditioning business. To set the scene of the famous case, Lyle, 21 at the time, and Eric, 18, shot Jose in the back of the head and Kitty 15 times inside of their parents' Beverly Hills home on Aug.
