The Menendez millionaires: How the brothers will be set for life with books, podcasts and movies if released from prison... if they achieve one tricky task

The luck that slipped done the fingers of the Menendez brothers volition beryllium backmost wrong scope if they spot the condemnation for murdering their parents overturned.

Prosecutors alleged that Lyle and Erik killed their parents due to the fact that they wanted unfettered entree to their family's $14 cardinal estate.

Both bought Rolex watches, condominiums, sports cars, and different costly items successful the months aft the murders, earlier being stripped of their wealthiness and sentenced to beingness successful prison.

Now manufacture experts foretell they could gain 'millions' from books, films, podcasts and nationalist speaking gigs should they locomotion retired of jailhouse aft 28 years, but pass that convincing a justice volition beryllium the casual part.

'They request to wide their names successful the nationalist caput and wide the stigma,' said Valerie Zucker of the Zucker Media Group.

If they do, they volition beryllium traveling and progressively well-trodden path.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years successful jailhouse successful 2016 for the second-degree execution of her abusive parent astatine the location they shared successful Springfield Missouri.

She was the unfortunate of 1 of America's astir notorious cases of Munchausen's-by-proxy astatine the hands of her abusive parent Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard.

She had much than 10 cardinal followers connected societal media wrong days of her merchandise successful December past twelvemonth portion the hashtag #GypsyRoseBlanchard has had much than 2 cardinal views connected TikTok alone.

Interest successful her lawsuit was sparked by the 2017 HBO documentary 'Mommy Dead and Dearest' which revealed however her puerility was blighted by a parent who shaved her head, pumped her afloat of unnecessary medications, and convinced the satellite she was suffering from leukemia.

The Menendez brothers are already among the astir celebrated killers successful the US with broadcasters including Netflix, CBS, ABC and Discovery featuring their communicative successful documentaries and dramatizations.

Celebrities including Kim Kardashian person weighed in, claiming that they ought to beryllium released from prison.

Kardashian wrote successful an op-ed earlier this month: 'Following years of maltreatment and a existent fearfulness for their lives, Erik and Lyle chose what they thought astatine the clip was their lone mode retired - an unimaginable mode to flight their surviving nightmare.'

But galore accounts of the lawsuit person been hostile to the brothers including 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' that was slammed arsenic 'dishonest' by Erik erstwhile it aired connected Netflix past month.

Chanel Rae Pettaway of the Legion Media Group said the assemblage for their ain relationship of the maltreatment that drove them to termination could beryllium unprecedented.

'Event their experiences successful prison, 1 of them is married, however did that happen?' she asked.

'How did the Kim Kardashian happening travel up? There are conscionable truthful galore questions that request to beryllium answered.

'There are decidedly million-dollar deals to explicate the dynamics of it.

'I was successful simple schoolhouse erstwhile it happened and I felt the impact.'

With a societal media pursuing successful the millions Blanchard tin bid a $100,000 interest from advertisers for a azygous station and tens of thousands for speaking engagements.

Amanda Knox spent 3 years successful an Italian jailhouse for the execution of her British country mate Meredith Kercher, earlier her condemnation was quashed successful 2011.

The communicative of the Seattle pupil astatine the mercy of a European tribunal made headlines astir the satellite with prosecutors coating her arsenic a sex-crazed dope smoker who had persuaded her fellow to stab Kercher successful the cervix during a convulsive orgy.

Five years aboriginal she was the taxable of a Netflix documentary which present features connected her glossy website wherever she advertises herself arsenic a nationalist talker connected the taxable of 'criminal justness reform, media ethics, and idiosyncratic resilience'.

The lawsuit spawned a cottage manufacture of books and documentaries earlier Knox herself began adding to the corpus with 2 biographies, a bid of podcasts, and a bid connected Vice successful which she has interviewed women including Amber Rose, Daisy Coleman, and Tess Holliday connected the taxable of being 'sexualized, scrutinized, and demonized by the media'.

In a bid of subscription-only columns she weighs successful connected different notorious cases including Ghislaine Maxwell, Elizabeth Holmes, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

'If you cognize thing astir Gypsy Rose Blanchard's lawsuit you cognize that 48-year-old Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard had it coming,' she told her followers.

Big wealth is besides connected connection for the household members of high-profile execution suspects.

Netflix commissioned 3 documentaries wrong weeks of suspected Gilgo Beach slayer Rex Heuermann being arrested successful July past year.

His estranged woman Asa is thought to person made signed a $400,000 woody for her co-operation portion her girl Victoria and stepson Christopher are thought to person pocketed $200,000 each.

Documentary filmmakers person besides approached the household of Brian Kohberger arsenic helium awaits proceedings for the execution of 4 University of Idaho students successful November 2022.

But instrumentality experts warned that the brothers should not look for the instrumentality to reconstruct their luck should they beryllium released.

Childhood friends Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were awarded $75 cardinal successful compensation aft spending 31 years successful situation for the rape and execution of an 11-year-old earlier they were exonerated successful 2014.

Former national authoritative Stephen Cazares said that a justice would lone connection the brothers compensation if they were 'actually innocent' of their parents' killing.

He said that they volition person to beryllium that the caller mitigating grounds was not disposable astatine their archetypal proceedings successful 1996, meaning their hopes of a reduced condemnation are inactive precise overmuch undecided contempt affirmative hints from the LA District Attorney's office.

'I fishy there's going to beryllium going to beryllium a small pushback due to the fact that that's the earthy reflex for prosecutors,' helium added.

Lyle Menendez completed a bachelor's grade successful sociology earlier this twelvemonth and a media vocation was not among his stated ambitions arsenic helium spoke of his hopes for release.

'I've had these discussions with corrections officials who are successful complaint of letting formerly incarcerated radical instrumentality to the prisons to bash bully work,' helium explained arsenic helium phoned successful to an lawsuit astatine the CrimeCon 2024 normal successful June.

'And they are decidedly unfastened to and would similar maine to proceed to enactment connected this thought of transforming situation yards truthful that it creates surviving environments and communities that nutrient amended neighbors.'

He has acceptable up therapy groups with chap inmates and helium hopes to assistance different survivors of puerility intersexual abuse.

'I've had talks with Rose O'Donnell astir creating a instauration wherever we would spell and effort to talk to the forums successful those groups, and assistance successful that space,' helium added.

'It's an country that I walk a batch of my clip in.

'As you're astir apt aware, a batch of the prisoners had hard childhoods and travel from hard circumstances, and truthful I've formed groups wherever they tin much confidently speech astir that.

'So, I'll astir apt proceed those 2 things. That would beryllium exciting.'

But PR chiefs are wide that determination is superior wealth disposable to some brothers if they privation to yet archer their communicative to the public.

'From backmost successful the '90s it was specified a large deal, and determination person been pulse points wherever it has been invigorated ever since,' said Zucker

'Anything wherever you person streaming, it's going to beryllium a full antithetic level of opportunity.'