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Podcast: The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott
Episode: Ryan Murphy’s Muse Leslie Grossman Is Stepping Into Her Spotlight
Description: Leslie Grossman thought she knew everything about Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents, because she grew up in the same community. “I came to learn that the reality is so much more insane than you could ever imagine.” In Ryan Murphy’s latest season of Monster (Netflix, September 19), Grossman plays Judalon Smyth, the mistress of Dr. Jerome Oziel, “the therapist that Erik Menendez confessed these murders to.” It was Smyth’s tip to the police that led to the brothers’ arrest. “He [Oziel] led her to believe that he was going to be leaving [his] fa...