Who is Erik Menendez’s wife Tammi Menendez?
ERIK Menendez and older brother Lyle are serving life sentences for the 1989 murder of their parents.
But who is Erik’s wife Tammi, and how did they meet? Here’s all you need to know...
She later said: "Our wedding cake was a Twinkie. We improvised.
“It was a wonderful ceremony until I had to leave. That was a very lonely night."
She once described her relationship with Erik as "something that I've dreamed about for a long time. And it's just something very special that I never thought that I would ever have."
In 2005 she wrote a book called They Said We'd Never Make It – My Life with Erik Menéndez, and told Larry King Live that he also “did a lot of editing on the book."
Tammi was married once before, but her husband took his own life.
How did Erik and Tammi meet?
Tammi had watched Erik and lyle’s first trial on television, and began writing to him during their second trial.
“I have to be emotionally attached, and I'm emotionally attached to Erik ... My family does not understand. When it started to get serious, some of them just threw up their hands.”
However, Tammi has a child from her first marriage, Talia, who was 9-months old when she wed Erik.
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Tammi says she and her daughter drive 150 miles every weekend to visit Erik.
She also says that her daughter refers to him as her "Earth Dad".