Founder Menudo is under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department over a sexual assault case against Roy Rossell

Between 1977 and 2002, the group Menudo was a musical success, and its young members became heartthrobs around the world with their tight and colorful outfits.

Although not everything was rosy, because since the late 90s, the band has been plagued by reports of abuse and attacks on minors.

It is for this reason that the Los Angeles police launched an investigation against the founder of The Boy band most famous in Latin America, Edgardo Díaz, for allegedly sexually assaulting a former member in the 1980s.

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“We can confirm that a complaint has been received and an investigation is ongoing,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service told the Los Angeles Times.

The process revolves around what former member Roy Rosselló revealed in the documentary Menendez + Menudo: The Boys Betrayed, where he claims that the founder of the music group beat him, tied him to a bed and raped him at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

The attack allegedly started because the members rented a room for some girls. “He told me: ‘This is better if this is the last time I see you with a woman because you are mine.’ I will not share you with anyone,'” said the man who filed a police report on November 8, 2022.

Rosselló joined Menudo when he was 13 and, he says, was repeatedly sexually abused, including by CEO José Menéndez, who was killed by his two sons.

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Previous complaints against the Menudo group

According to Primera Hora, this is not the first accusation that Rosselló has made publicly as a former member of Menudo.

In 2014, a man was invited to reality show Brazilian “A Fazenda 7”, where he admitted that he was the victim of sexual abuse by Edgardo Díaz.

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These claims would be repeated in 2020 during his appearance on the Mexican news show “Ventaneando”.

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