{"id":91381,"date":"2023-04-23T20:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91381"},"modified":"2023-04-23T20:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:33:45","slug":"menudo-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/04\/23\/menudo-molestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Menudo Molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read this column regularly, you know about the documentary series, <strong><em>Menudo: Forever Young<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; This <em>expos\u00e9 <\/em>about the Latin prepubescent group <strong><em>Menudo <\/em><\/strong>discussed a number of the scandals, which included abuse \u2013 physical, psychological and sexual.&nbsp; One of the people not part of that series was member <strong>Roy Rossell\u00f3<\/strong>.&nbsp; But he has now come forward with a shocking claim.&nbsp; He says that when he was 14, he was sexually assaulted by <strong>Jose Menendez<\/strong>.&nbsp; If the name sounds familiar, it\u2019s because he was the father of <strong>Lyle <\/strong>and <strong>Erik Menendez <\/strong>\u2013 who murdered their parents allegedly because of abuse!&nbsp; Roy\u2019s claims went public on <em>Today<\/em> because he\u2019s part of another docuseries \u2013 <strong><em>Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Apparently, Jose was an executive at <em>RCA Records<\/em>, which was <em>Menudo<\/em>\u2019s label.&nbsp; Roy was brought to the Menendez mansion by Menudo creator, <strong>Edgardo Diaz <\/strong>\u2013 who is also accused of sexual assault (claims other group members have previously made).&nbsp; Roy says he was drugged and assaulted while at the Menendez home.&nbsp; In the documentary, Roy dramatically points to a photo of Jose Menendez and says, \u201cThat\u2019s the man here that raped me.&nbsp; That\u2019s the pedophile\u201d.&nbsp; Erik Menendez has spoken out, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s sad to know that there was another victim of my father\u201d.&nbsp; The docuseries airs on <em>Peacock <\/em>next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read this column regularly, you know about the documentary series, Menudo: Forever Young.&nbsp; This expos\u00e9 about the Latin prepubescent group Menudo discussed a number of the scandals, which included abuse \u2013 physical, psychological and sexual.&nbsp; One of the people not part of that series was member Roy Rossell\u00f3.&nbsp; But he has now come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91382,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91381\/revisions\/91382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}