Lyle and Erik Menendez continue to serve life sentences in prison for the brutal murders of their parents on August 20, 1989, when the brothers—then 21 and 18—shot and killed them in their family’s Beverly Hills mansion.
Smyth Had an Affair with the Menendez Brothers’ Therapist
Smyth met married Oziel in June 1989 while running a tape-duplicating business, and proposed they sell tapes of him discussing psychology. They began an affair, and Judalon even moved in with Jerome and his wife, Laurel, for a few months during their relationship, according to the Los Angeles Times. Laurel claimed that Jerome was honest with her about the affair, but also stated that they felt “held hostage by this woman in our own home.”…