The latest Netflix true crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has put the spotlight back on the gruesome murders of Kitty and Jose Menendez and the lengthy trial that followed more than thirty years ago. Not just that but the show also gives time to several perspectives of the events to several figures who were involved in the case. This involves witnesses such as the psychiatrist who recorded the confession of the brothers, Dr Jerome Oziel, as well as Dominick Dunne, the Vanity Fair reporter who wrote several articles about the drama that surrounded it all.
It also includes the defence lawyer who represented the Menendez brothers and who helped devise a key strategy that nearly saw them acquitted of murder. Ari Graynor takes on the role as Leslie Abramson in the Netflix series and viewers may have seen the actress before in films like The Disaster Artist and Whip It but who is the real Abramson and where is she now? Who is Leslie Abramson? Leslie Abramson is a criminal defence attorney and author who was born in Queens in New York in 1943. She attended UCLA Law School and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1970, meaning she had already established herself in the profession for a good while before representing the Menendez nrothers.
Abramson was married to a pharmacist with whom she had a daughter, Laine, but they divorced in 1969. She went on to marry LA Times reporter Tim Rutten. The case that probably established her reputation occurred in 1988.