Real-life therapist and his mistress depicted in Menendez brothers Netflix series are seen for the first time since ex-lovers lit up notorious murder trial 31 years ago

They are the warring former lovers whose sensational testimony electrified the 1993 murder trial of Beverly Hills rich kids Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Now the brothers' therapist Dr. Jerome Oziel, 78, and his former mistress Judalon Smyth, 72, have been photographed for the first time in 31 years in exclusive DailyMail.com pictures.

The former couple's story is back in the headlines thanks to the smash-hit success of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The series stars Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny as Jose and Kitty Menendez – the parents the brothers shot dead at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.

Oziel and Smyth are played by Dallas Roberts and Leslie Grossman in the hit drama which includes scenes showing the pair testifying at trial.

Their testimony descended into a circus thanks to its lurid content and the couple taking the stand on opposite sides.

The ex-lovers once lived glamorous lives in Los Angeles, with Oziel running a successful psychotherapy practice in the ritzy LA suburb of Calabasas and Smyth enjoying a lengthy career as an EMT in Beverly Hills.

According to her LinkedIn page, she also ran a tourism consultancy called Travel Secrets that shut down in 2012 and had a side role dispensing beauty advice for a second consultancy called Youth Secrets.

But DailyMail.com can reveal both have now moved away from Los Angeles and are living quietly in cities 300 miles apart.

Oziel now lives alone in a $875,000 five-bedroom home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after his wife Laurel divorced him in 2014 according to court records seen by DailyMail.com.

The couple appear to have split shortly after the trial, with Laurel moving to Arizona and then Oregon while Oziel moved to New Mexico. 

Despite their lengthy separation, Laurel didn't end their marriage until September 2013 with the divorce finalized the following year.

In 1997, Oziel was struck off by the California Board of Psychologists as a result of his testimony at the Menendez trial and had his medical license revoked.

Nonetheless, he remains listed on the website of a company called the Marital Mediation Center which has an address in Albuquerque and says he is employed there as a therapist.

When DailyMail.com visited, the premises appeared to be an ordinary suburban home with a black pick-up parked on the driveway, although no one would answer the door.

Smyth lives 336 miles north of Albuquerque in the quiet Colorado town of Pueblo in a modest $189,000 four-bedroom home and, like her former lover, lives alone.

Both declined to comment on their reignited fame when approached by DailyMail.com.

Despite Smyth's reticence to talk about the Menendez case, she has long been active on social media where she has spoken frequently of her support for former President Donald Trump and her congresswoman firebrand Republican Lauren Boebert.

The 72-year-old has also shared bizarre conspiracy theories, including one that accuses the Rockefeller dynasty of killing millions with shoddy vaccines during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and another that claimed the real British king is a man named John III and not the real monarch Charles III.

In 1989, the year that the Menendez brothers gunned down their parents inside the sitting room at their Beverly Hills home, the pair were lovers.

Oziel and Smyth met when she approached him looking for relationship therapy sessions – a lucrative business for Oziel who charged $150 an hour.

After realizing she couldn't afford the fees, Smyth and Oziel began a sexual relationship, and the now-72-year-old testified during the trial that she presented him with a 'sex IOU' – that included pawprints from her two cats Shanti Oz and Ishi Kitty, whom she enlisted as witnesses.

She also admitted that she briefly moved in with Oziel and his wife Laurel, her stay lasting three months with Oziel's wife later saying she had felt her family 'had been held hostage by this woman in our own home'.

Smyth, in contrast, claimed she felt like a 'prisoner of war' during her stay and said Oziel threatened to have her committed if she moved out.

Whatever the truth of the claims, both agree their involvement with the Menendez brothers began months after the August 1989 murders when Oziel was contacted by younger sibling Erik who told the therapist he was having suicidal thoughts.

During a taped meeting at Oziel's office, the pair admitted to killing their parents with the 48-minute confession later presented in court as critical evidence for the prosecution.

Despite pledging to keep the confession coonfidential, Oziel told Smyth about the tapes. Five months later in a fit of rage after they split, she called in the cops and told them that the Menendez brothers had confessed to her ex-lover.

The brothers, who had gone on a $700,000 spending binge following their parents' murder, were arrested in March 1990 – Lyle first on March 8 and Erik three days later after turning himself in following a trip to Israel.

In August 1990, Judge James Albrecht ruled the tapes could be used at trial due to Lyle's threats against Oziel which he decided violated patient-doctor privilege.

The brothers appealed but in 1992, the California Supreme Court ruled for Oziel with the siblings eventually indicted on murder charges in December the same year.

That teed the Menendez brothers up for a sensational trial that began in July 1993 with the defense arguing the brothers were sexually abused by their father while the prosecution said the murders were over money.

But one of the most explosive parts of the trial came when Oziel took to the stand as a witness for the prosecution – with Smyth lined up as a witness for the defense.

The Menendez's defense counsel Leslie Abramson vowed to discredit the psychologist after failing to get the tapes struck out of court – and to that end, she employed Smyth, who memorably when asked if she wanted children with Oziel, snapped: 'I would not want children that looked like Dr Oziel.'

Despite dramatic developments in court, the first trial ended with a hung jury. A retrial was announced immediately afterwards, although unlike the first trial, the second in 1995 was not televised. 

Both brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and in July 1996, they were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

The brothers are now banged up together at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego – also home to RFK's killer Sirhan Sirhan.

They have repeatedly appealed their convictions, most recently filing a new appeal based on the claims of Puerto Rican pop star Roy Rosselló, 54, who claimed he had been raped by Jose Menendez at the family's New Jersey home aged 14.

Erik Menendez slammed the Netflix series as an inaccurate portrayal of the brothers.

'I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show. I can only believe they were done so on purpose,' he wrote on Facebook.

'It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.'