Erik Menendez’s Attorney Leslie Abramson Calls Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ a ‘Piece of S–t’ Series

Erik Menendez’s longtime lawyer Leslie Abramson isn’t a fan of Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix drama portraying her client.

Leslie, 81 — who defended Erik, 53, in the 1990s when he and his brother Lyle Menendez were tried for the 1989 murders of their parents, Kitty and Jose — revealed she had no intentions of watching Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which premiered on the steaming service on September 18.

“That piece of s–t I heard about? No. I don’t watch any of those,” she said in a video published by Entertainment Tonight on October 9. “I will make no comments about my client. None whatsoever.”

The legal professional did share a written statement in the new documentary The Menendez Brothers, which is also streaming on Netflix.

“30 years is a long time,” she said in an email shown in the docuseries. “I’d like to leave the past in the past. No amount of media, nor teenage petitions will alter the fate of these clients. Only the court can do that and they have ruled.”

The Netflix series has reignited public interest in the Menendez brothers’ case, with many on social media pushing for their convictions to be overturned. Recently, attention has shifted to potential new evidence that could back the brothers’ claims of physical and sexual abuse they endured from their father.

The case has also caught the attention of A-lister Kim Kardashian, who wrote in an NBC News essay that the brothers deserve a new trial.

“I have spent time with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters,” the reality TV personality, who visited the brothers at their San Diego prison in September, wrote. “They are kind, intelligent, and honest men.”

“I don’t believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case,” she continued. “Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different.”

After Erik and Lyle’s first trial ended in a mistrial, Kim argued that O.J. Simpson’s acquittal “changed the rules” and may have altered the outcome of the brothers’ case.

“Both brothers were tried together before a single jury, much of the abuse evidence was deemed inadmissible, and manslaughter was no longer an option. Some witnesses from the first trial were barred from testifying about the alleged abuse, depriving the jurors of crucial evidence,” she continued. “The prosecutor, having successfully argued to exclude the abuse testimony, mocked the brothers’ defense during his closing arguments for not producing any evidence of abuse.”

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Kim claimed that “Erik and Lyle’s case became entertainment for the nation” and their experience was “ridiculed” in pop culture.

“The media turned the brothers into monsters and sensationalized eye candy — two arrogant, rich kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents out of greed,” she explained, adding that due to how they were portrayed, Erik and Lyle, 56, were not given a “fair” trial.

Prosecutors appear to have responded to the public’s pleas, as Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced on October 3 that the case is under review, with a new hearing scheduled nearly 30 years after the brothers’ initial conviction.

“Today, what I wanted to be very clear, we have not conceded one way or the other, we are not saying that there was anything wrong with the original trial,” the district attorney said in a press conference. “We have been given evidence, we have been given a photocopy of a letter that allegedly was sent by one of the brothers to another family member talking about him being the victim of molestation.”

Gascón added, “We have also got evidence that was provided from the defense, by his lawyer, that one of the members of the Menudo band alleged that he was molested by [Jose Menendez].”

The Menendez brothers’ hearing is set for November 29.