Rosie O’Donnell issued a daring response to the Menendez brothers’ parole choices within the wake of the announcement deciding the futures of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
On Saturday, August 23, the previous Rosie O’Donnell Present host, 63, took to Instagram with a blunt message. “Free the Menendez brothers,” she wrote in daring, black textual content on an off-white background.
The A League of Their Personal actress didn’t provide another feedback within the wake of a California parole board denying each Erik and Lyle’s request for parole this week. Erik’s denial got here on Thursday, August 21, whereas Lyle’s determination was delivered on Friday, August 22.
Within the feedback, O’Donnell’s followers had been divided by her stance on the Menendez brothers’ case.
One Instagram person identified, “Many different folks I’d wish to see freed earlier than two spoiled children who killed their mother and father for cash.”
One other commented, “I really like you Rosie however I don’t agree with you on this….. we are going to conform to disagree!”
Another person shared, “The households of each victims are pleading for this! I need what they need!”
A special follower who agreed with O’Donnell wrote, “I can’t consider that they had been denied bail/launch!!!! The concept that they’re a risk, or a hazard to society is laughable, and absurd! LET THEM OUT!”
In the meantime, one more Instagram echoed, “They need to be free.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom nonetheless has the facility to reverse parole choices, so the Menendez brothers may nonetheless doubtlessly stroll free. They may be eligible for parole once more in three years, per CNN. Within the meantime, the circumstances shall be thought-about for “administrative evaluate” inside one yr and could also be granted a second parole listening to in as little as 18 months.
In 1996, the siblings had been sentenced to life in jail after confessing to fatally taking pictures their father, Jose Menendez, and mom, Kitty Menendez, on the Beverly Hills dwelling in 1989. The protection argued that Erik and Lyle — who had been solely 18 and 21, respectively — killed their mother and father in self-defense following years of alleged sexual abuse by the hands of their father. In the meantime, prosecutors claimed the brothers killed their mother and father so they might inherit their fortune.
In Might 2025, a decide diminished Lyle and Erik’s sentences from life in jail with out the opportunity of parole to 50 years to life. This made them instantly eligible for parole simply months after Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story introduced renewed consideration to the decades-old case.