Kim Kardashian brought a bizarre furry purse along with her when she attended her son Saint’s basketball game this week.
The 43-year-old shares her four children – daughters North, 11, and Chicago, six, and sons Saint, eight, and Psalm, five – with her third ex-husband Kanye West.
She is a frequent presence at her elder son’s basketball games, affectionately showing her support for his extracurricular hobby.
During her latest outing, she hauled along an eye-catchingly large, bulging black handbag that was covered in what looked like faux fur.
Her California casual outfit included a clinging tank top that emphasized her ample endowments and enabled her to show off her chiseled midriff.
Kim Kardashian brought a bizarre furry purse along with her when she attended her son Saint’s basketball game this week
Kim’s latest appearance comes after she published a controversial op-ed arguing that the Menendez brothers should be freed.
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been in jail for over three decades for murdering their parents Jose and Kitty at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.
Their trials were televised and attracted a feverish media frenzy – the first court cases to become the type of TV sensation later epitomized by OJ Simpson.
Kim’s family first entered the spotlight when her late father Robert Kardashian was part of the legal ‘dream team’ that helped secure OJ’s acquittal of double murder.
Now Kim – an aspiring lawyer who passed California’s practice ‘baby bar’ exam on her fourth try in December 2021 – has become a vocal advocate of prison reform.
In an op-ed published in Thursday, Kim argued that the Menendez brothers should be released from custody as their ‘only way out of prison now is death.’
Her intervention came the same day as an announcement by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who revealed that the Menendez brothers had asked a court to vacate their conviction.
The DA’s office is now examining evidence that was deemed inadmissible at the trial that resulted in the brothers’ imprisonment.
She is a frequent presence at her elder son’s basketball games, affectionately showing her support for his extracurricular hobby
Kim is pictured with Saint in an Instagram photo she shared last month from their trip to Spain, during which she called herself a ‘Madrid soccer mom’
The office is specifically looking at allegations made by former boy band singer Roy Rossello, who claimed last year that Jose – a music executive – molested him when he was a teenager in the 1980s.
The Menendez brothers have maintained they were sexually abused by their father, and it has been further claimed that crucial evidence connected to the accusations was not allowed at the trial that led to their 1996 conviction.
Kim, who has acted for Ryan on his smash hit show American Horror Story, is now arguing that Lyle and Erik have been misunderstood.
She argued that people ‘are all products of our experiences’ and that ‘this story is much more complex than it appears on the surface.’
Kim pointed out that ‘both brothers said they had been sexually, physically and emotionally abused for years by their parents,’ in the op-ed for NBC News.
In the past, Kim has secured the release of multiple convicts, famously starting with Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted on eight criminal counts in 1996 for her work with a cocaine trafficking ring in Memphis.
Kim also visited the Trump White House to plug the FIRST STEP Act, a prison reform law that resulted in the early release of tens of thousands of criminals.
Kim’s latest appearance comes after she published a controversial op-ed arguing that the Menendez brothers, pictured at trial in 1994, should be freed
Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 when they killed their parents Jose and Kitty, triggering a rollercoaster legal drama that resulted in their conviction of murder in 1996.
The Menendez brothers put forward the ‘abuse excuse,’ alleging that they were molested and physically assaulted by their parents for years.
Along with the brothers themselves, one of the most notorious figures to emerge from the trial was their ruthless lawyer Leslie Abramson.
Ultimately, the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole – since when Lyle has been married twice and Erik once.
In her op-ed, Kim characterized the brothers as two abuse victims who were railroaded by the legal system and smeared by the media.
‘Their first trial was heard before two separate juries, one for each brother. Their abuse claims formed the foundation of their defense, with family members testifying on their behalf,’ Kim wrote.
‘After hearing this evidence, over half of the 24 jurors voted not guilty on the murder charges, resulting in hopelessly deadlocked juries and mistrials, widely seen as a blow to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.’
Kim asserted that by the time of the second trial, the Menendez case had been eclipsed by the OJ Simpson case in the minds of the public.
Lyle (left) and Erik (right) Menendez have been in jail for over three decades for murdering their parents Jose and Kitty at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989; pictured 1990
With less attention now given to the Menendez brothers, the rules were altered at their expense for their second trial, Kim argued.
‘This time, the judge had changed the rules: both brothers were tried together before a single jury, much of the abuse evidence was deemed inadmissible, and manslaughter was no longer an option,’ wrote Kim.
‘Some witnesses from the first trial were barred from testifying about the alleged abuse, depriving the jurors of crucial evidence,’ she added.
‘The prosecutor, having successfully argued to exclude the abuse testimony, mocked the brothers’ defense during his closing arguments for not producing any evidence of abuse.’
She also noted the ‘case became entertainment for the nation,’ as the brothers’ ‘suffering and stories of abuse [were] turned into skits on Saturday Night Live,’ and the ‘media turned the brothers into monsters and sensationalized eye candy.’
Kim slammed the way Lyle and Erik were painted as ‘two arrogant, rich kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents out of greed,’ arguing that the portrayal left ‘no room for empathy, let alone sympathy’ in the public perception of them.
