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ANAMARIA Baralt couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

The devoted first cousin of Lyle and Erik Menendez was aghast after watching the first episode of the Netflix smash hit Monsters, which depicted the nightmare scenario that has haunted her family for over 30 years.

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The Menendez brothers’ case made global headlines and threw the family into utter turmoil[/caption]

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Interest in the case has been revived once again following the recent release of a Netflix drama (Family pictured)[/caption]

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The recently released Netflix drama has been “way off the mark,” according a U.S. Sun world exclusive with their cousin Anamaria Baralt[/caption]

DEVOTED SIBLING

Anamaria’s father, Carlos, was the brother of Jose Menendez, the multi-millionaire TV executive who, along with his wife Kitty, was murdered by their sons in their Beverly Hills mansion.

She remains very close to Lyle and will forever be heartbroken about the events of August 20, 1989.

The yoga instructor, based outside of Seattle, has visited him countless times in prison.

The 53-year-old knows him better than most, and in a world exclusive for The U.S. Sun, she has spoken publicly for the first time about the killings that ripped her world apart.

First, however, Anamaria wanted to set the record straight.

“The portrayal of Lyle as this rage-fueled, fly-off-the-handle, aggressive personality is so far off the mark of his personality,” she said.

“When I spoke to Lyle the other night, I said, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever heard you raise your voice.’ And he agreed.”

Cooper Koch, who plays Erik in the Netflix mini-series directed by Ryan Murphy, visited both brothers in San Diego prison last weekend.

Kim Kardashian was also present.

Yet bizarrely, it was the first time the actor had met the person he was portraying.

POETIC LICENSE

Anamaria appreciates that some dramatic effect was added to boost ratings — she said the decision to make out music played at Jose and Kitty’s funeral was “insane”— but she struggled to understand why moves weren’t made to connect with the real-life characters before filming began.

“Shouldn’t it have been the other way round?” she asked.
“If they had met him for five minutes, they would have seen how contrary to his personality. I think it’s weird.”

Viewers have also flooded social media about the homo-erotic storyline, which appears to suggest there was an incestuous element to the brothers’ relationship.

“That’s a weird one,” Anamaria conceded. “I can appreciate poetic license and creating entertaining shows. But these are real people. I would hope that there would be a little bit more effort.”

The U.S. Sun contacted Netflix for comment but has yet to hear back.

But the actors have addressed the controversy.

“It’s a really interesting question, and it was something that we discussed quite a bit as part of this project, but ultimately this is a question that’s honestly best reserved for Ryan and the creators of the show,” said Lyle actor Nicholas Chavez.

Show creator Murphy has also defended the portrayal claiming that it was a “point of view” that emerged during the brothers trial.

“Dominick Dunne [the Vanity Fair journalist played by Nathan Lane] wrote several articles talking about that theory,” Murphy said, according to Variety.

“We are presenting his point of view. And we had an obligation to show all of that and we did.”

HAIR RAISING DRAMA

Another talked about moment in the show – Lyle’s toupee – did take her by surprise.

“I had no idea about that until the trial,” Anamaria admitted.

She was just 18 when the sickening incident became a global news story.

As part of a large, immigrant Cuban family, they all grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, before the boys and their parents moved to California.

For a while, Jose lived with Anamaria’s parents.

It was a very tight-knit relationship, which explains why she refuses to discuss any theories about the reasons why her uncle and aunt were shot at point-blank range by their children.

Did they slaughter their parents for their gain? Or were they emotionally and sexually abused by their father, with their mother complicit in the nightmare that was unfolding as they claimed?

FAMILY AGONY

Anamaria emphatically states there are “boundaries” that won’t be crossed.

However, she recalls the pain of being at the center of such a torrid tragedy.

The emotional turmoil was intense. Yet to have her pain beamed across the globe with millions of people dissecting every twist and turn was excruciating in the extreme.

Anamaria remembers “blanket coverage” and late-night talk shows cracking warped jokes about the killings.

“I don’t know that anybody who has not been through that particular horror can understand what that’s like,” she said.

In the months after the murders, Erik and Lyle went on wild shopping sprees, flashing their father’s cash, buying fast cars, and living a life of luxury.

The decisions made with Lyle’s character were surprising.

Anamaria Baralt, cousing of Lyle and Erik Menendez

As the cops thought it was a mob hit, the rest of the family followed suit.

“We believed they had nothing to do with it,” Anamaria recalled. “None of us could imagine they had done it.”

QUESTION MARKS

She says both Erik and Lyle weren’t violent people and that getting into trouble “just wasn’t their thing.”

Yet once Erik finally cracked under the increasing pain and guilt and told therapist Jerome Oziel about the killings, Anamaria and her relatives were left floored.

“It was just bonkers,” she said. “A real shock.”

The brothers were arrested on March 8 and 11, 1993, respectively, with the trial starting that summer.

Anamaria was back on the East Coast but remained close to the brothers.

“We talked about anything else,” she admitted.

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Jose and Kitty Menendez were gunned down by their sons at their home in Beverly Hills[/caption]

When the first trial ended in a hung jury, forcing a retrial, the realization of having to endure the nightmare of seeing their loved ones in the dock again hit hard.

She recalls the “circus” that hunted down other members of the Menendez clan and the pain of watching her beloved father, who passed away in 2020, struggle with the agony of his brother and best friend being killed by his nephews, whom he loved in equal measure.

“It was horrifying,” Anamaria said. “My father was the nicest man in the world, so it was tough for him.”

FAMILY PAIN

When the double murder charge arrived on April 17, 1996, in the second trial – which started just days after the end of the controversial OJ Simpson murder case, which rocked the United States legal system to the core – the agony for Anamaria’s family continued.

“When they went to jail, we had lost four people,” she said.

She remembers both men putting on “brave faces” and showing incredible empathy in the face of such a devastating turn of events.

“I would visit Lyle and feel guilty about telling him all about my life, my travels, and what I was doing,”  Anamaria continued. “But he wanted to hear about those kind of things.”

The brothers remain hopeful of being released this year, with their attorneys pushing harder than ever.

Anamaria says almost everyone in her family – apart from one person on Kitty’s side – would like to see them set free after 35 long years behind bars.

Another documentary, directed by legendary producer Dick Wolf, is out next month and promises to be more factual than Monsters.

The research team contacted a host of Menendez family members, which she believes was the “responsible” thing to do.

WORRYING PORTRAYAL

Despite admitting Koch’s performance could have been better, she’s still deciding whether to watch the remainder of Monsters.

“He told me he had been studying Erik for seven years and watched every moment of the trials and the testimonies; I thought his portrayal was not bad at all,” said Erik and Lyle’s cousin.

“The decisions made with Lyle’s character were surprising.”
So, did all the perceived falsehoods in the latest dramatization bring up old wounds?

“I’m pretty used to it,” Anamaria sighed. “After all, it’s been over 30 years.”

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Anamaria remains close to the brothers and is hopeful of their release after spending 30 years in prison[/caption]

A heated dinner party on Married At First Sight UK has sparked a potential feud between two of the grooms.

Nathan called out his co-star Adam, 33, after the barber rated his bride as a “four out of ten.”

Adam previously came under fire before he even made it down the aisle after revealing his list of demands for the woman he was due to marry.

He said he wanted someone who looked like a mix between Megan Fox and Michelle Keegan.

Viewers called it “a beautiful moment” when the usually light and cheery Nathan confronted Adam last night, with a very bold question.

Nathan asked Adam: “Would you say you are superficial then?”

The barber replied: “I’m 33 now. I’m not going to settle until I’ve got perfection.”

Watching the drama, one viewer said: “We all thought Nathan came across as a bit ‘lights are on but nobody is home,’ but the gasp I let out when he came out with that cracker—fave thing so far.”

Another added: “The fact he’s not a deep thinker makes it more endearing. He was literally calling it as he saw it!”

A third viewer weighed in: “You could see Adam’s brain explode a bit that the good-looking, tall, athletic guy realises that looks aren’t really all that important. I think this will be a good lesson in being shallow for Adam.”

A MUM spends just £111 a month to live with her two children on a canal boat but it gets freezing cold in the winter and is so narrow it risks tipping over.

Jennifer has lived on the 65ft long vessel on the Grand Union Canal for over three years but revealed how life on the boat is not always plain sailing.

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The boat travels along the Grand Union Canal between London and the Midlands[/caption]

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The custom built vessel is decked out with comfortable furnishings[/caption]

In a video posted posted in collaboration with YouTube channel Alternative House, she revealed how it can get incredibly cold during the winter for her family.

She said her radiators fail to get hot enough during the colder months.

This failure means the boat cannot be adequately heated and makes her own bedroom the coldest on the craft.

She even admitted to wearing a beanie hat in order to stay warm enough, and that it is not uncommon for ice to be found on the inside of her bedroom windows.

The roaming canal boat dweller does stay prepared for this scenario though, pointing out that she does keep a log compartment at the front of her home for the chillier days. 

Another issue she faces is the balance of the 12.5ft wide vessel, which is at risk of tipping over if weight is distributed poorly.

To reduce this risk, she built her children’s two bedrooms on one side of the boat and her kitchen on the other.

The bedrooms, which are 5ft wide and 9ft long, have cabin beds with small single mattresses, a wardrobe and storage and play space under the beds.

Jennifer revealed she pays just £111 per month to have a roving licence to use the boat on the Grand Union Canal. 

She also showed off her spacious kitchen, which is a standard-fit kitchen from IKEA, which Jen is thankful for as it meant she did not need a bespoke one to be designed to fit smaller measurements.

The kitchen is equipped with a cooker, fridge, freezer and washing machine and the living room doubles as a workspace, where she practises massage, one-to-one yoga and holistic therapies.

A small dining area is also home to her office and there is a shower room and master bedroom complete with a window seat and front decking area.

Outside there’s a storage compartment at the front where the family stores logs for winter and an opening where a tank is filled with 1,000 litres of water every fortnight.

The boat’s roof is currently used for yoga, eating or chilling but Jennifer hopes to expand on her current herb garden with this space next year.

Jennifer is a continuous cruiser, meaning she moves every two weeks and travels 32km (20 miles) in one direction every year to keep her licence.

The custom built boat cost her under £100,000 in total and took seven weeks to fit out.

Jennifer said: “I was self- employed so couldn’t get a mortgage, then I saw a boat on a canal one day and thought that’s the life I want.

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Instagram/ @_water_gypsy

“I wanted a three bed but they are hard to come by so I designed this, which took ten weeks to build at a cost of £87,000.”

She added: “It was brought by lorry from Liverpool and put onto the water using a crane. It cost £10,000 to fit out and took seven weeks.” 

Her £111 monthly payments also cover water, bins and towpath maintenance for herself, her young daughter and her son.

In addition, Jennifer runs the engine for two hours per day in the winter to generate the electric, which costs £50 per month in diesel.

Gas bottles cost £50 and last ten weeks and solar panels on the roof are used to run the fridge.

A MARRIED couple have hit back at trolls who hate their height difference.

Cassandra and Wes met on an online dating app and hit it off immediately before finding out her partner was shorter than her.

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Talking to Truly, Cassandra admitted she would have never dated someone shorter than her in the past, but she decided to let the stigma go when she met Wes.

“When I started dating I didn’t want to date anybody shorter than me because I was just so focused on what people think about me and the stigma,” she revealed.

“However, once I got serious it was like, you know what, I really want to find my person. I kind of let the height thing go.”

Cassandra is 5’10” while Wes is 5’5″ but as she often wears heels she tends to tower over him.

The pair met online back in 2017 and sparks flew instantly thanks to their love of fashion.

While the couple couldn’t care less about the height difference – and tied the knot, they reveal strangers have lots to say about it.

Wes admitted he had dated many women taller than him and the height difference had never fazed him.

He explained others are more concerned with it though: “Some of the misconceptions that people make are that I can’t protect her, she is not feminine, that I suffer from short man syndrome, which means that I actually have an anger problem, that she walks all over me and I have no say in this relationship.

“Like a complete change of power dynamics just because she’s taller than me and I’m shorter than her.”

Cassandra also revealed when out in public people assume Was is her child because of their height.

“Girls think my husband is my son,” she added.

The clip has since gone viral on the YouTube account with over 11,000 views.

People were quick to take to the comments and share their thoughts.

One person wrote: “They’re cute together. Short guys deserve to be in relationships too.”

Another commented: “People are so superficial. Short women marry tall men all the time. So what if he’s shorter. They’re cute together.”

“They look more like brother and sister from a distance than they do mother and son with the hair and glasses on,” penned a third.

Meanwhile a fourth said: “I wouldn’t think he’s her son. But definitely keep the beard.”

“I think they’re a beautiful couple. You can see the love with these two,” claimed a fifth.

Someone else added: “It’s nothing bad, the important thing is that they love each other, the rest is irrelevant.”

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