Roy Rosselló, a former Menudo singer, has said that the father of the Menendez brothers, Jose Menendez, sexually assaulted him. The accusation, which will be featured in a docuseries, is similar to the brothers’ allegations of abuse after they were found guilty in 1996 of killing their parents.
Who is Roy Rosselló?
Roy Rosselló is a Puerto Rican singer and actor who was born in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, on May 12, 1971. He gained fame as an early member of the popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo in 1983.
Rosselló started his musical career at an early age by singing in church with his family. At the age of 12, he gave a Menudo audition and was approved as a member. He recorded a number of successful songs while he was a part of the group, including “A Volar” and “Subete a Mi Moto.”
Rosselló quit Menudo in 1985 and began his own endeavor. He spent 1987 traveling the US, appeared in the film Star of the Jungle, and hosted the Brazilian TV program Frente Jovem. Roy Rosello then attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida in 1991 to study TV production.
After reconnecting with his long-lost daughter through another Brazilian TV program, he recently settled in Brazil. Since 2006, Roselló has operated a pub with a Caribbean theme in Campinas, a city in the Brazilian state of So Paulo, where he also runs Roy Rosello Fine Jewellery.
Roy joined a band playing axé and Caribbean music in 2009, breaking onto the Brazilian music scene. On September 14, 2014, Roy signed up to compete on TV Record’s renowned Brazilian reality series A Fazenda 7.
Roy is now coming out with a claim that Jose Menendez sexually attacked him when he was a teenager. In addition to recounting a meeting with Menendez, he also details other instances of alleged sexual assault by a former manager of Menudo while he was performing with the group.
“I know what he did to me in his house,” Mr. Rosselló says of Mr. Menendez in the clip of the docuseries that aired on “Today.”
