Kim Kardashian brought a bizarre furry bag 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 regularly attends her eldest son’s basketball games and lovingly expresses her support for his extracurricular hobby.
During her latest outing, she toted around a noticeably large, bulging black handbag covered in what appeared to be faux fur.
Her casual California outfit included a form-fitting tank top that highlighted her ample gifts and allowed her to show off her chiseled midriff.
Kim Kardashian brought a bizarre furry bag 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 released.
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been in prison for more than 30 years for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills mansion.
Their trials were televised and created a feverish media frenzy – the first trials to become the kind of TV sensation later embodied by OJ Simpson.
Kim’s family first came into 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 “baby bar” exam on her fourth attempt in December 2021 — has become an outspoken advocate for prison reform.
In an op-ed published Thursday, Kim argued that the Menendez brothers should be released from custody because their “only way out of prison now is death.”
Her intervention came on 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 district attorney’s office is now investigating evidence that was deemed inadmissible during the trial that resulted in the brothers’ capture.
She regularly attends her eldest son’s basketball games and lovingly shows her support for his extracurricular hobby
Kim appears with Saint in an Instagram photo she shared last month from their trip to Spain, calling herself a “Madrid soccer mom”
The office is specifically looking at allegations from former boy band singer Roy Rossello, who alleged last year that Jose, a music manager, abused him as a teenager in the 1980s.
The Menendez brothers have maintained that they were sexually abused by their father, and it is further alleged that crucial evidence related to the allegations was not allowed during the trial that led to their conviction in 1996.
Their case has gained new public attention since the premiere of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story last month.
Kim, who has performed for Ryan in his smash hit show American Horror Story, now claims 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 seems at first glance.”
Kim pointed out that “both brothers said they were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by their parents for years,” in the op-ed for NBC News.
In the past, Kim has secured the release of several convicts, starting with Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted on eight criminal counts in 1996 for her work in a Memphis cocaine smuggling ring.
Kim also visited the Trump White House to enforce 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 during the 1994 trial, should be released.
Lyle was 21 and Erik 18 when they murdered their parents Jose and Kitty, sparking a legal drama that resulted in their murder conviction in 1996.
The Menendez brothers raised the “abuse excuse,” claiming they had been abused and physically abused by their parents for years.
Along with the brothers themselves, one of the most infamous figures to emerge from the trial was their ruthless attorney Leslie Abramson.
Ultimately, the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole – since then, Lyle has been married twice and Erik once.
In her op-ed, Kim characterized the brothers as two victims of abuse who were targeted by the legal system and smeared by the media.
“Their first trial was heard before two separate juries, one for each brother. Their claims of abuse formed the basis of their defense, with family members testifying on their behalf,” Kim wrote.
“After hearing this evidence, more than half of the 24 jurors voted not guilty on the murder charge, resulting in hopelessly deadlocked juries and nullifications that are widely seen as a blow to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.”
Kim claimed that by the time of the second trial, the Menendez case had been overshadowed in the public’s minds by the OJ Simpson case.
Lyle (left) and Erik (right) Menendez have been in prison for more than thirty years for the 1989 murders of their parents Jose and Kitty in their Beverly Hills mansion; pictured 1990
With less attention now being paid to the Menendez brothers, the rules were changed at their expense for their second trial, Kim argued.
“This time, the judge had changed the rules: both brothers were tried together before one jury, much of the abuse evidence was deemed inadmissible, and manslaughter was no longer an option,” Kim wrote.
“Some witnesses from the first trial were not allowed to testify about the alleged abuse, depriving jurors of crucial evidence,” she added.
“The prosecutor, who had successfully argued to exclude the abuse testimony, mocked the brothers’ defense during his closing arguments for failing to provide any evidence of abuse.”
She also noted that the “case became entertainment for the nation,” as did the brothers’ suffering and stories of abuse [were] turned into skits on Saturday Night Live,” and the “media turned the brothers into monsters and sensational eye candy.”
Kim denounced the way Lyle and Erik were portrayed 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.
