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Lyle and Erik Menendez

Background
Lyle and Erik's father, José Enrique Menéndez, was born on May 6, 1944, in Havana, Cuba. At age 16, shortly after the start of the Cuban Revolution, he moved to the United States. José attended Southern Illinois University, where he met Mary Louise "Kitty" Andersen (1941–1989). They married in 1963 and moved to New York City, where José earned an accounting degree from Queens College.

The couple's first son, Joseph Lyle Menéndez, who goes by his middle name, was born on January 10, 1968 in New York. Kitty quit her teaching job after Lyle was born, and the family moved to New Jersey, where Erik was born on November 27, 1970, in Gloucester Township. In New Jersey, the family lived in Hopewell Township and both brothers attended Princeton Day School.

In 1986, José's career as a corporate executive (he had recently joined the company then known as International Video Entertainment) took the family to Beverly Hills, California. The following year, Erik began attending Beverly Hills High School, where he earned average grades and displayed a remarkable talent for tennis, ranking 44th in the US for 18-and-under players. Lyle attended Princeton University which he later was suspended for plagiarism. Before Lyle was suspended he was on academic and disciplinary probation for poor grades.