Edgardo Díaz, the founder of the internationally famous Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, is under investigation over allegations that he sexually assaulted a former teenage member of the group in the 1980s
, who also fatally shot their mother, Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, in the family’s Beverly Hills mansion.Roy Rosselló, who was in the boy band Menudo in the 1980s, alleges in a new docuseries that he was raped by the slain father of the Menendez brothers.
“He told me, ‘This better be the last time I see you with a woman because you are mine. I’m not going to share you with anyone,’” Rosselló says in Spanish in the docuseries. In the docuseries, reported by journalists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan, Rosselló alleges he was repeatedly sexually abused and assaulted by Díaz when he joined Menudo at 13. Rosselló also alleges for the first time that Díaz took him to the home of Jose Menendez in New Jersey, where he says he was drugged and raped by Menendez when he was 14.
It’s not clear whether Rosselló’s rape allegation against Jose Menendez could be a factor in the Menendez brothers’ case being reexamined. Attorneys for the siblings have previouslyIt was also unclear whether Rosselló, who alleged the abuse happened on a regular basis during his time with the band, would seek to report more alleged instances of abuse and assault in other jurisdictions.
Former colleagues at the Miami Herald, Rand and Ynclan said they began working together on the Menudo and Menendez story in 2018 when they met at the home of an aunt of the Menendez brothers. Since then, the two have been looking to speak with former members of Menudo to tell their story, including Rosselló.
In 2014, Rosselló appeared on the Brazilian reality show “A Fazenda 7” and alleged he had been a victim of sexual abuse by Díaz. Six years later, he appeared on a Mexican entertainment news program, “Ventaneando,” andBolivar Arellano, a freelance photographer who worked with Menudo, alleged on a Puerto Rican talk show in 1991 that several members of the band had been given alcohol, drugs and were sexually abused, according to the docuseries.
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