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Explore the Menendez brothers' vast inheritance, their wild spending spree after the murders, and how their multi-million dollar fortune vanished.
The 1990 trading card of New York Knicks’ Mark Jackson with the Menendez brothers in the background. In the months following the brutal murder of their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez began ...
Lyle, the older brother, indulged in high-end purchases, including designer clothing and a Porsche. He also invested heavily in a Princeton, New Jersey, restaurant called Chuck's Spring Street Café.
Before the Menendez family relocated to California, they lived on West Shore Drive in the Elm Ridge Park of Hopewell, NJ. At the time, Lyle and Erik were students at Princeton Day School.
FILE - Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave a courtroom in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 6, 1990, after a judge ruled that conversations between the brothers and their psychologist after their parents ...
Lyle, left, and Erik Galen Menendez sit in Beverly Hills, Calif., courtroom, May 14, 1990 as a judge postponed their preliminary hearing on charges of murdering their parents last August.
They represented a pre-tech-boom image of young wealthy men as portrayed in many a 1980s movie: the tennis-playing, Princeton-bound prep. For many viewers, this image was confirmed by the spending ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The trials of Lyle and Erik Menendez came at a time of cultural obsession with courts, crime and murder, when live televised trials captivated a national audience.