Menendez Brothers Home Becomes Tourist Trap After Success Of Netflix Limited Series: “People All Hours Of The Night”

Renewed interest in the case involving Lyle and Erik Menendez has reportedly turned the family’s former mansion into an unintended tourist trap, with the Beverly Hills Police receiving 18 calls in the last month concerning loud noise and trespassing.

Residents around the Elm Drive home told the Los Angeles Times that their once quiet neighborhood has become a magnet for rubberneckers who want to catch a glimpse of the place where the brothers murdered their parents in 1989.

“There’s people all hours of the night,” one resident told the newspaper. “People are getting out of their cars, blocking our driveway. I didn’t register that [the mansion] was across the street from me. It’s been pretty quiet until the Netflix show came out.”

Making matters worse, multiple videos of the house have showed up on TikTok that serve as a veritable beacon for tourists looking for unique attractions to visit in L.A. Naturally, tour buses also drive past the Mediterranean-style mansion that was sold for $17 million in March. The seven-bedroom, 9,063-square-foot home is under renovation so no one is living there.

The newspaper reported that tourists from as far away as France and South Africa have been stopping by the home to take pictures — especially of the famous street address.

“In Italy, the show is very popular,” tourist Fabrizio Serra told the LAT. “It’s fascinating to visit this place … something that you always see on the screens … you have the opportunity in real life [to see it].”

Last week, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said he was recommending resentencing for the siblings. The brothers were given life in prison without parole in their second trial in 1996 for the shotgun killing of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez.

The case of Erik, now 53, and Lyle, 56, received renewed attention from new evidence revealed in a Peacock documentary last year, along with Ryan Murphy’s nine-part Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.