In the first episode of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the brothers' socialite mother, Kitty, rips off Lyle's toupee during a family fight at the dinner table.
The humiliating attack is based in truth: Lyle - who was fitted with a $1,450 hairpiece in 1988 at the insistence of his father, music executive José Menendez, after the teen started prematurely balding - testified about it following his parents' brutal 1989 killings. Little brother Erik "didn't know I had a hairpiece," Lyle said.
"I was completely embarrassed." But the painful incident drew the siblings closer. They confided in each other about the years of sexual abuse they'd allegedly suffered at the hands of their dad, with their mom's knowledge. Then they killed their parents.
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