Who was Norma Novelli? Book author who sold and leaked tape recordings of Lyle Menendez in prison

NORMA Novelli recorded her conversations with Lyle Menendez earlier leaking them up of his 2nd trial. 

The leak caused chaos successful the Menendez brothers’ tribunal battle, which was dramatized successful Ryan Murphy’s Monsters. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Norma. 

In-depth conversations with Lyle

Although not overmuch is known astir Norma’s beingness earlier the trial, we bash cognize that Lyle Menendez believed that she would collaborate with him connected a publication astir his life. 

According to the blurb of that book, Norma published a newsletter called Mind’s Eye and lived successful Toluca, California. 

She recorded respective tapes with Lyle for the publication and helium trusted her capable to unfastened up astir his innermost thoughts and feelings.

However, the tapes leaked earlier the trial, causing chaos successful the ineligible proceedings. 

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In Ryan Murphy’s Monsters, this prevents Lyle from testifying successful the 2nd proceedings and forces his lawyer, Jill Lansing, to quit. 

Norma is played by Natalie Taylor Gray successful the Netflix series. 

However, real-life events differed from the mentation shown successful Monsters arsenic the leak didn’t really forestall Lyle from testifying. 

In reality, Lyle chose not to attest aft Norma sold the tapes. 

After Jill stepped backmost from the case, death punishment litigation adept Charles Gessler stepped up to prevention the brothers from execution. 

Ultimately, helium was successful, though they were some sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole. 

The tapes were yet utilized to constitute a publication called The Private Diary of Lyle Menendez successful His Own Voice.

The publication was a collaborative effort betwixt Norma and Mike Walker.

The blurb claims to springiness readers an “intimate, sensational peek” into Lyle’s caput arsenic helium confides successful a “middle-aged azygous mother”. 

It adjacent suggests that Norma was “ensnared by Lyle”, who it claims said “everybody who meets me, loves me”.

The Menendez brothers’ crime

On August 20, 1989, the Menendez brothers murdered their parents Kitty and José successful their household home. 

The brothers phoned the constabulary and pretended that they had conscionable travel location to find their parents dead, earlier going connected to unrecorded a lavish manner with their inheritance. 

They were aboriginal arrested for their transgression aft Erik confessed to Dr Jerome Oziel, his therapist, whose mistress, Judalon Smyth, informed the constabulary of what had happened.

Their archetypal proceedings rapidly became a media circus, portion besides being broadcast connected Court TV to homes crossed America. 

The brothers alleged during the proceedings that they had been victims of intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their father.

A hung assemblage forced the lawsuit to spell to a retrial, with the tapes recorded by Norma adding to the chaos. 

Despite the efforts of the brothers’ lawyer Leslie Abramson, they were jailed for their crime.

Netflix and the Menendez brothers

Interest successful the Menendez brothers surged erstwhile Ryan Murphy’s Netflix play Monsters landed connected the platform. 

A documentary named The Menendez Brothers followed, which featured interviews with the brothers themselves. 

Since then, determination person been calls for the brothers’ merchandise which are adjacent being echoed by celebrities including Kim Kardashian.