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Who is Roy Rossello? Latest Menendez Brothers allegations explored

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Ava White

Updated on February 03, 2026

In the most recent Menendez brothers narrative, Roy Rossello, a previous individual from the Puerto Rican teeny-bopper group sensation Menudo, guaranteed that he was attacked by the dad of his two bandmates.

Trigger admonition: This article contains notices of s*xual misuse. Perusers’ circumspection is encouraged.

On Tuesday, April 18, Peacock delivered a trailer for their impending genuine wrongdoing docuseries, The Menendez + Menudo: Young men Sold out. In the clasp, Roy Rossello, 51, guaranteed that he was s*xually attacked as a youngster by Jose Menendez. Jose is the dad of the Menendez brothers, who were indicted for killing their folks.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced for the demise of their folks, Jose and Mary Louise, in 1996. With regards to their rough activities, the brothers affirmed that their dad, Jose, manhandled them for a really long time while their mom, who knew about the episode, empowered their victimizer.

The most recent claims by a third musician against Jose loan validity to the protection of the brothers, who were condemned to life in jail without the chance for further appeal.

Peacock’s forthcoming genuine wrongdoing docuseries on the scandalous Menendez brothers incorporated a stunning charge from a third Menudo teeny-bopper group part, Roy Rosello, who guaranteed that he was attacked on various occasions by Jose, who was a leader at RCA Records at that point.

Roy Rosselló Díaz, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 1, 1970, rose to notoriety as a part and vocalist of the famous Latin gathering, Menudo. Rosselló, likewise credited as an entertainer in the 1977 film The Adoration Boat, retired from public life after his bandmates Erik and Lyle became grub for tabloids. This was during the preliminary for the 1989 homicides of their folks, José and Mary Louise, where they uncovered that their dad was a chronic victimizer.

Over thirty years after the stunning occurrence, Rosselló, in another docuseries in view of detailing by the columnists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan about the sentenced brothers, validated the claims against Erik and Lyle’s dad, Jose.

The short clasp of the three-section docuseries, set to air on May 2, was uncovered on the Today Show where Roy Rosello guaranteed that he was sedated and r*p*d by Jose during a visit to his New Jersey home when he was 14.

In the clasp, Rosello focuses at an image of Jose saying,
It ought to be noticed that this isn’t whenever a Menudo first musician has purportedly been abused while in the gathering. Last year, HBO debuted a four-section docuseries, Menudo: Everlastingly Youthful, where 13 previous individuals stood in opposition to the maltreatment they looked while a piece of the band.

The most recent narrative on the brothers guarantees that the disclosures on the show might actually absolve Erik and Joseph, who have stayed in jail since their 1996 conviction.