Kim Kardashian andMonstersStar Cooper Koch Visit Erik and Lyle Menendez in San Diego Prison

Mar. 15, 2025

Kim Kardashian and Erik (left) and Lyle Menendez.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Los Angeles Times via Getty

Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Los Angeles Times via Getty

Kim Kardashianpaid a visit toErikandLyle Menendezdays afterRyan Murphy’s latest installment in theMonsteranthology series premiered.

On Saturday, Sept. 21, a source tells PEOPLE that Kardashian, 43, and Cooper Koch, who plays Erik in the Netflix series, spent some time in San Diego at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, whereboth the Menendez brothers have been incarcerated since they were sentenced to life in prison in 1996forthe murder of their parents.

‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’ stars (from left) Brad Culver as Gerald Chaleff, Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez.Miles Crist/Netflix

Miles Crist/Netflix

Kardashian has been advocating forprison reform since 2018and has been studying tobecome a lawyer. The reality star helpedAlice Johnsonget released from a life sentence after reading about her story on X (formerly known as Twitter) in October 2017. In May 2019, shehelped negotiate the release of another low-level drug offender from prisonand met with then-imprisonedSlamstar Momolu Stewart, who was convicted of murder and served 22 years in prison.

The SKMIS founder has visited the White House multiple times to discuss prison reform, recentlyparticipating in a roundtable discussionwithVice President Kamala Harrison the subject in April. Kardashian met up withGypsy Rose Blanchard, who wasreleased from prison in December 2023 after serving more than eight years, in aJuly episode ofThe Kardashiansto talk about changes that could be made to the legal system and how Blanchard, 33, could be influential in that space.

Lyle (left) and Erik Menendez in court in August 1990.AP Photo/Nick Ut

AP Photo/Nick Ut

Erik, now 53, and Lyle, 56, shot their parents José and Kitty Menendez inside their family home in Beverly Hills on Aug. 20, 1989. They were tried three times related to the murders, and both brothers alleged that José was physically, emotionally and sexually abusive and that Kitty was addicted to drugs and alcohol, physically abusive and enabled her husband’s abuse.

InMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Koch plays Erik alongside Nicholas Alexander Chavez’s Lyle, andJavier BardemandChloë Sevignyplay their parents José and Kitty.

‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’ stars (from left) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloe Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez.Courtesy Of Netflix

Courtesy Of Netflix

“I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show," Erik began the statement. “I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”

He continued, “It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward — back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women.

Erik claimed that the portrayals of him and his brother were “vile and appalling” and accused Murphy, 58, of “disheartening slander.”

Lyle (left) and Erik Menendez in court in 1990.AP Photo/Nick Ut

“Is the truth not enough? Let the truth stand as the truth,” Erik wrote. “How demoralizing is it to know that one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma.”

Representatives for Murphy and Netflix did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Storyis now streaming on Netflix.

source: people.com