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The brothers loaded and reloaded their gauge Mossberg shotguns 14 times in the TV room of the family mansion at North Elm Drive. Ashen, Dominick Dunne shook his head. He said he was not. Crime watchers had never seen anything like it. Could I be wrong?

Dominick saw the same thing happen to his own daughter, Dominique. Are the Menendez brothers gay? He revealed his father also raped Erik, and that he, in turn, replicated that sexual abuse by taking his kid brother into the woods to molest him there in a similar matter.

However, at no point in time, since the trial, have the brothers admitted to being gay or having any sort of sexually intimate relations between them.

Inside Dominick Dunne’s Ties : Did Erik and Lyle Menendez Have a Sexual Relationship? During his trial, Lyle testified that he never had a sexual relationship with his brother

In a June interview with Barbara Walters, Erik was asked if he was gay. The Menendez trial compelled Dunne, for the first time in his life, to write and publicly talk about the physical abuse he experienced as a child at the hands of his own father.

Lyle was involved with a woman named Anna Eriksson who he would eventually marry then divorce. Several jurors and reporters also wept. Like Jose Menendez, he, too, had raised two sons in the rarefied hot-house environment of money, privilege, and celebrity that is Beverly Hills.

Erik was the handsome son, the likable one. According to Lyle, Jose Menendez thought of their sex together as a male bonding ritual. Unlike Shoreen Maghame, Playboy reporter Robert Rand agreed with the man from Vanity Fair about almost nothing that happened during the Menendez trial.

The most heartbreaking moment in his testimony, however, came later when Lyle talked about his younger brother. Erik, particularly, received the brunt of the speculations but has repeatedly tried to shut down the rumors. It was all about a couple of wealthy brats using their money to buy themselves justice and, in the process, ruin the good reputations of their victims.

Lyle said on the stand that when he was 8 years old, he sexually abused Erik in the woods one time. He said it before the trial began, and he said it 12 years later when interviewed for a documentary based on his life. The big question of the sensational Menendez trial was whether the father had sexually abused his sons.

Erik and Lyle were not the only ones crying. He believed it for the better part of a day.

Dunne said he believed without a doubt that Jose never molested them. The Menendez trial also proved personally complicated for Dunne. In fact, Court TV had hired Dunne and Rand to disagree, and late every Friday afternoon throughout the trial the two journalists gave opposing weekly rebuttals on camera.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were on trial for double murder in The two young men and their two middle-aged victims were not celebrities, but they were wealthy, lived in Beverly Hills, and had ties to the movie business. As of Augustboth men are still in prison and are married to women.

The Menendez trial was only the second one for which the cable network presented gavel-to-gavel coverage, the first being the ten-day Williams Kennedy Smith rape trial in The Menendez trial represented everything Dunne loathed about the criminal justice system.

Both Lyle and Erik testified in court that they never had a sexual relationship.