![]() Passed over for an executive vice presidency in 1986, Menendez jumped to International Video Entertainment, a California video distributor that eventually became Live Entertainment. ![]() Not long after he persuaded RCA to open a Miami office, he was responsible for signing Menudo and Jose Feliciano. After Hertz in turn was bought out by RCA, Menendez switched to the parent company’s record division and was soon involved in signing pop groups, including Duran Duran and the Eurythmies. His next stop was Hertz, where he was put in charge of commercial leasing. Although the firm flourished during Jose’s years there, he was forced out when the company was taken over. At 23, he was hired away by one of his clients, a Chicago-based shipping company, as its comptroller. When his father wrote to object, telling him he was too young to be married, Jose replied firmly, “If I was old enough to be on my own at 16, I’m old enough to be married at 19.”Īfter earning a degree in accounting at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y., he took a job with the Manhattan firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before graduating, he left Illinois for New York, taking with him Kitty Andersen, a strong-minded young woman who had first attracted his attention in debating class. Living with friends of the family in Pennsylvania, Jose won a swimming scholarship to Southern Illinois University at Carbon-dale-his mother, Maria, had been a champion swimmer in her youth-but gave it up because of the exhausting training schedule. by his father, Jose, a onetime soccer star who stayed behind in Cuba until his last investment property was seized by Fidel Castro. Jose Menendez’s immigrant odyssey had begun in 1960, when at the age of 16 he was sent to the U.S. Worse, the charges seemed an incomprehensible insult to the memory of Jose and Kitty Menendez and the dream they had worked so hard to fulfill. The boys, they said, were bright and ambitious the family close and loving. Now, almost at the same age, we don’t have a father.”īoth family and friends were stunned by the arrests. I’ve never seen my dad helpless, and it’s sad to think he would ever be.” Then Erik noted an irony. “I’ve never seen anything like it, never will see anything like it,” Erik told a reporter two months after the murders. The bodies were found by the couple’s sons, Lyle, 22, and Erik, 19, who told police they had returned from a night on the town to find the front door of the family’s Italianate mansion open and their parents’ lifeless bodies within. In what had the look of a gangland-style coup de grace, the barrel of a gun had been thrust into his mouth, and the explosion had blown off the back of his head. Jose, 45, chief executive of Live Entertainment, a prominent music-and-video distribution company, had been struck by eight shotgun blasts. 20, when the blood-spattered corpses of Jose Menendez and his wife, Mary Louise (“Kitty”), were found in the den of their $5 million Beverly Hills mansion, the evidence pointed to a mob hit. Actor Barrett Doss is 34.Yet the script’s existence, intriguing though it was, seemed for a time merely coincidence. Actor-singer Christy Carlson Romano is 39. Rock musician Nick Wheeler (The All-American Rejects) is 41. Actor Nick Blood (TV: “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) is 41. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 58. Actor-model-designer Kathy Ireland is 60. ![]() Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 62. Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 73. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 77. ![]() Basketball Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley is 78. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney is 84. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hal Linden is 92. ![]() The salvo marked a serious escalation of rebel attacks on the kingdom as the war in Yemen raged into its eighth year. Yemen’s Houthi rebels unleashed an intense barrage of drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s critical energy facilities, sparking a fire at one site and temporarily cutting oil production at another. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia, delivering an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany. One year ago: Ukrainian authorities said Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering about 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where refugees described how “battles took place over every street,” weeks into a devastating siege. ![]()
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