Erik Menéndez‘s prison life sentence didn’t stop him from finding love with wife Tammi Menéndez.
Erik and his brother, Lyle Menéndez, were arrested in 1990 on two counts of first-degree murder after their parents — José and Kitty — were found shot to death in their home in August 1989. Two trials resulted in Erik and Lyle being sentenced to life without parole. Both have maintained that their mother and father were physically, emotionally and sexually abusive.
After the trial, Erik’s sexual orientation became a topic of conversation.
“No [I am not gay]. The prosecutor brought that up because I was sexually molested and he felt in his own thinking that if I was sodomized by my father that I must have enjoyed it and therefore I must be gay,” Erik said in a tell-all with Barbara Walters fr