Two lawsuits filed this week are related to the alleged sexual assault pattern of a member of the Boys band in the 1980s, giving a sharp contrasting narrative of the roles played by the band’s manager at the time. One lawsuit alleges that the manager repeatedly raped former Mencius member Roy Rosselló while handing him over to others, including José Menendez, which other lawsuits claim are over a decade but have recently highlighted in the 2023 Peacock documentary.
Rosselló claimed on Thursday in a civil lawsuit filed in a federal court in New York that he was a victim of decades of sexual abuse in the Latin Boys band for three years. From 1983 to 1986, Díaz suffered sexual assault, emotional manipulation and trafficking by Rosselló, which spread across the United States, Brazil, Puerto Rico and other parts of the world, the lawsuit alleged.
Rosselló Merv Griffin Show, American Bandstand and Sesame Street In a few years, he said he was beaten up several times a week by Díaz and others - most notably, then-RCA record director José Menendez signed a $30 million contract, and in many ways he had aroused extraordinary interest in the group, flying in the performances of the Brazilians, and invited band members to invite band members to his new Jersey Home barkey Home. The complaint says it was Díaz who facilitated these encounters, holding a New York hotel at a New York hotel in Menendez’s New Jersey home, following a Menudo performance in the room at Radio City Music Hall and Diaz.
In an interview Hollywood Reporter This week, Menandez kills people Author Robert Rand said Erik Menendez recalled that during these barbecues in Princeton, NJ, “José would say, ‘I need to walk into a bedroom and talk to this member of Menudo, one-on-one.”
Official charges against the late Menendez patriarch, who was shot dead in 1989 with his wife Kitty at home in Beverly Hills, and his sons expanded the charges against José Menendez in 2023 in the 2023 Peacock documentary. Menendez and Menudo: The boy betrays. Rosselló now says his former RCA chief has suffered multiple sexual assaults in many countries, not just the single encounter he originally described in the series.
Complaints and potential jury trials can further consolidate the evidence presented in ongoing legal proceedings in Los Angeles when the Menendez brothers seek freedom. The brothers' second joint trial ended after the court did not allow any mention or evidence that their father sexually abused his son. This puts their defense strategy torpedoes and leads them to conviction and handed them to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
However, the allegation by Rosselló was coupled with a letter that was discovered by Rand, who wrote to his cousin a few months before the murder and described his father's alleged continued abuse, which helped shock the value of Menendez Brothers' second defense after more than 30 years.
Rosselló initially accused Diaz of beating him on TV when he appeared in a Brazilian reality show in 2014. Diaz is 77 years old. He has been denied all allegations of harassment against him. In 1994, he filed for bankruptcy, and three years after he was accused of sexual abuse by his former member, former member Ralphy Rodriguez was the main plaintiff. In 2023, the Los Angeles Police Department investigated Rosello's allegations in a police report that sexually assaulted a former member of the group at the Biltmore Hotel in the 1980s.
Menendez and Menudo: The boy betrayed, Rosello's documentary accusing José Menendez of sexual assault was the main subject of other lawsuits filed this week, but it extended to the allegations at the Menendez trial. The plaintiff also made some new claims on the evidence of the evidence that made the brothers’ case national news.
The complaint filed earlier this week came from Darrin McGillis, who owns the rights to several Menudo songs, is now blaming NBCUniversal libel and Slander, noting that it intentionally aired lies about Menudo. The boy betrayed Docuseries, which included Rosselló, studied Menudo's connection with José Menendez. The series provides Rosselló with a platform to bring up his initial allegations against the old man Menendez, who Rossello said raped him while he was president of RCA Records. The allegation has a ripple effect, partly triggering the current legal battles, Lyle and Erik Menendez, have gone to court to win freedom.
In this lawsuit, McGillis has no attorney or firmly backed his lawsuit, claiming that NBC relies on “fabricated statements” and paid Rosselló “a lot of money” such as “sex,” “sex,” “sex,” “sex,” “s morestation,” “sorestation,” “gay” and “homesose” and “homesoxal” for the benefit of tying Menudo to “scandal, false and defamatory labels.” The complaint states that Menudo's contract members had filed civil lawsuits against Diaz (although there was a case of Rosselló). McGillis claims the documentary hurt his business. He asked the court that NBC/Universal paid him $500 million in punitive damages.
Talk to it Hollywood Reporter On Friday, McGillis insisted that Rosselló was lying that he had never been harassed by Diaz, saying he was not a friend and that the two had previously suffered commercial clashes over Menudo rights. McGillis insists that Rosselló The boy betrayed Lies in the documentary.
McGillis also claimed he was asked to appear in The boy betrayed Rand is the producer of the show, and Rand demands to lie, lie. In the lawsuit, he accused Rand of executing a “detailed, complex and well-planned strategy involving many complex steps” with the ultimate goal of freeing the Menendez brothers. This involves McGillis claims a fake interview with former Menudo member Ricky Martin, who said Rand claims that Martin told him that Menendez placed his hand on the young Martin's pants on his way to Disney World. McGillis repeats the story with secondhand Earth The tabloid, which acts as a cover story, makes McGillis feel deceitful.
McGillis told thr By phone, he was motivated to file a lawsuit to ensure the truth about Rosselló’s alleged lies and to ensure that the facts in the case of Menendez Brothers are all available to the courts, their families and the public to try to regain free work through the legal system. On the phone thr On Friday, McGillis also claimed that Rand had previously admitted to him that he had fabricated the second major evidence in the Menandes case - the letter written by Erik, which Rand found on the table of the brother's late Kusing while reporting the story.
"He told me the letter - he went there and the lady let him walk into the house," McGillis explained thr Rand once told him. "So he has free access. Look! Then I found a letter... no one knows if I found it there." So he told me he planted this letter. ”
Rand told thr He never provided McGillis with any money on Friday The boy betrayed and loudly laughed at the idea of Erik Menendez's letter to his cousin, or that he once confided to McGillis about such things.
"The letter is true. I found it in the home of the Jose Menendez sisters in March 2018," Rand said, adding that Rosello was not the only former Menendez member. The boy betrayed Producer Talked to the harassment incident. However, he is the only one willing to go on the camera to talk about it.
McGillis said he brought this along with other information to the office of former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascoen, who he thought was taken seriously but was surprised to see a painful hearing for the efforts of the Menendez Brothers.
The legal complaint was promptly filed, with no attorney or company as the McGillis case stepped forward with a sense of urgency.
"There is any value that is urgent to bring it to the court. I don't know. Maybe everything I have makes no sense in everyone's mind," he said. "I don't know - it's there, it's the truth. Put it into practice anyway. If anything can help people make well-founded decisions about anything...it's there.
The next court date for the Menendez brothers will be held on May 9.