Kris Jenner reveals Kardashians' surprise connection to Menendez brothers

Kris Jenner has revealed a transportation to the Menendez brothers that goes backmost to adjacent earlier Kim Kardashian began advocating for the jailed brothers’ freedom.

In the play six premiere of world amusement The Kardashians, Kris, 69, told of however her precocious ex-husband, Robert Kardashian, personally knew Erik Menendez.

With her parent and sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, Kim discussed proceeding astir the producer's Monsters series.

After the 2nd of 2 publicised trials, 1 of which was televised, the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik, were convicted successful 1996 of first-degree murder. They were sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole for sidesplitting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, successful 1989.

Recent years person seen them statesman their bid for freedom, aft grounds of their father’s intersexual maltreatment emerged successful their case.

On The Kardashians, Kim speaks astir the brothers and Monsters bid which landed connected Netflix past twelvemonth and brought astir renewed involvement of the case, earlier Kris exclaims: “Oh my God. You cognize I knew those guys successful the '80s.”

Kourtney questioned whether Kris knew the brothers' parents, to which her mum responded she wasn’t personally acquainted with them.

She said: “I knew the kids due to the fact that Erik utilized to travel implicit and play tennis with your dada connected the weekends.”

Kim past chimed successful astir however she recalled her precocious dad, lawyer Mr Kardashian, speaking astir the lawsuit erstwhile she was increasing up successful Beverly Hills.

The world TV prima continued: “The trial, I think, happened erstwhile I was, like, 13, truthful determination were large cases that I would emotion to speech to my dada astir and truthful this was 1 of them.

“Now, being older and seeing it from a antithetic lens, 35 years later, and knowing what I cognize present astir the system, I conscionable person a full antithetic outlook connected it.”

Kim, who has advocated for transgression justness reform, has been a vocal protagonist of the brothers.

Firstly, some brothers were tried individually. Despite giving grounds of however they had suffered intersexual and carnal maltreatment astatine the hands of their father, some juries were deadlocked, resulting successful mistrials, and the brace were aboriginal tried again together.

Ironically, the 2nd proceedings took spot a week aft Mr Kardashian successfully defended OJ Simpson against a execution charge. With the “OJ effect” eroding nationalist assurance successful the ineligible system, Judge Stanley Weisberg's decided to bounds the defence's quality to contiguous grounds of the brothers' alleged maltreatment by their father, to debar different arguable outcome. As such, the assemblage didn’t get to perceive the afloat communicative of the abuse, and the prosecution was capable to successfully reason the brothers killed their parents for fiscal gain.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted of first-degree execution and peculiar circumstances. The convictions meant they were sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

However, past October, then-District Attorney George Gascon recommended the brothers beryllium resentenced to 50 years to life, making them instantly eligible for parole.

A caller sentencing proceeding had been planned for the extremity of January, but was delayed by astir 2 months owed to the California wildfires, the Associated Press reported.