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'Revealing the Truth About Nicole Brown Simpson'

February 19, 2013, 6:00 pm
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It would seem that after the 1989 incident, the Brown family finally had the evidence they needed to prevail upon Nicole to get out of the marriage.

Denise had, at Nicole's request, taken a photograph of her bruised face, which Nicole locked away in her safe-deposit box.
Her father also saw that photo, says Jean Vaziri, "but he dismissed it. Now he feels he should have done something."


Meanwhile, both O.J. and Nicole told the Browns how deeply they loved  each other and that they were determined to work things out.
The violence, they both swore, was finished.

In fact the beatings had not been a constant in their relationship.
"It's hard to believe," says a friend, "but it wasn't the norm. There was a lot of good. There was a lot of fun."

The violence was real but sporadic. "There is a great myth," says domestic violence authority Gelles, "that abusive husbands are abusive 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year. They are not."

It is likely that the Browns never knew the full truth about the degree of violence in their daughter's marriage.
Nicole revealed only fragments of her life with O.J.; no friend or family member saw the whole picture.

Denise, says Eve Chen, was distraught that she couldn't get her sister to open up more.
And as close as Nicole was to her mother, there were some things she simply wouldn't discuss.

Once, after Nicole told her about the nasty fights she'd had with O.J., Juditha Brown expressed fury at her son-in-law. From that day on, says Chen, Nicole seldom confided in her mother.

What could Nicole's friends and family have done? 
What should they have done?

For Nicole's friends and family, along with thoughts of what might have been, comes the agonizing voice of self-recrimination.

"Maybe I single-handedly couldn't have helped Nicole," says a close friend, "but if she had heard time after time, 'You are strong, you are good, you can do it on your own, you don't need to take this..'
If she heard that enough times in the voices of enough people who loved her, maybe it would have saved her life."

People Magazine
February 20 1995

Nicole Brown Simpson 
'The Poignant Story of a Life Interrupted'

The Legacy of Nicole Brown Simpson

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'Behind the Tears...'

February 20, 2013, 5:00 pm
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The tears shed on the witness stand by battling Denise Brown won her a shock reprieve from former brother-in-law O.J. Simpson's hard-hitting defense team.

Denise was so visibly upset that the Juice's lawyers took a kid-gloves approach to cross examining tragic Nicole Brown Simpson's older sister.

With millions of TV viewers glued to their sets, O.J. attorney Robert Shapiro gently quizzed Denise without trying to 'assassinate' her character as the Brown family had feared.

"It was a lucky break for Denise," says one of Nicole's closest friends. "But we're still afraid that O.J. and his dream team haven't finished with her yet. They can always recall Denise to the witness stand..."


But to legal experts, the biggest omission was Shapiro's failure to ask Denise about the astonishing statement she made less than two weeks after her sister's gruesome death.

"She was not a battered woman," Denise said then. "My definition of a battered woman is somebody who gets beat up all the time. I don't want people to think it was like that.
"I know Nicole. She was a very strong-willed person. If she was beaten up, she wouldn't have stayed with O.J. That wasn't her.
Everybody knows about 1989 (O.J.'s New Year's Day battering of Nicole). Does anybody know about any other time?"

This remark is even more puzzling when it is compared with what Denise disclosed several months later - that on the morning of June 13 1994, when she was awakened by her mother's scream, she yanked the phone out of her distraught mom's hand and yelled to the detective at the other end: "Oh my God, HE killed her, he murdered her."

He, she later confirmed, meant O.J.

Star Magazine
February 21 1995


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'Nicole Brown Simpson...More Than Just Skin Deep'

February 27, 2013, 7:23 am
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Though the money she asked for in her divorce might suggest otherwise, her friends claim that the Nicole they knew didn't fit the stereotype of the idle, rich divorcee whose days are divided into equal parts of shopping, lunching and full-body grooming.

"She looked grubby a lot of the time," says Patricia Rose, meaning it as a compliment.
"She wasn't into make-up." 



Arina Hanciulescu, a sales clerk at a clothing shop in Brentwood Gardens, a collection of nice stores at the heart of the neighborhood, remembers seeing Nicole only occasionally.
"She would just look and leave. I never sold her anything."

Says Greer, "I think she wore the same dress almost every day. She hated shopping.
Pretentious people were her pet peeve."

The Nicole her friends remember was attentive, concerned, nonjudgmental, even spiritual...

Nicole Brown Simpson: Her Story
Jeannie Ralston
Glamour Magazine
October 1994
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'The Sinister Secret...'

March 7, 2013, 9:38 am
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Desperate lawmen have kept sinister secrets from the jury in the O.J. Simpson trial because they're terrified that he'll walk if they hear the whole story!

That's the startling charge O.J.'s defense team has leveled at the detectives and the district attorney's office in the winner-take-all court battle.

The cop's primary motivation was fear of the defense and the media, says O.J.'s team.

After Nicole Simpson's and Ron Goldman's bodies were taken away, worried police cleaned up the scene so completely there was nothing for defense experts to get their hands on, say O.J.'s lawyers.


Cops didn't call the coroner for hours after Officer Robert Riske first saw the bodies, because they feared the press would come with the coroner, say police witnesses.

Insiders also suggest that the LAPD's friction with the coroner's office was another reason they kept them in the dark.
Ironically, because the police waited and because the coroner didn't preserve some of the victim's vital organs, the prosecution was left with precious little detail of when Nicole and Ron actually died.

The other motivation for the cops was hatred of O.J., Cochran says.
The police force is rife with racism that reared its ugly head when a rich black man was charged with killing his white wife and her white male friend, charge insiders.

And Cochran says the cop who hates O.J. the most is Mark Fuhrman.
He and other defense lawyers believe Fuhrman planted the glove to frame O.J.

National Examiner Magazine
March 7 1995
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'A Strategy of Denial...'

March 13, 2013, 6:00 pm
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But now, after detailed interviews with the defense source, STAR can reveal the Simpson's team strategy...

In another strange event on the night of the murders, it is claimed that a woman - who said she was a reporter for NBC - called the Wilshire Police Division in Los Angeles between 10 p.m and 10.30 p.m and asked the watch commander if he had information on "the double murders on the west side" of the city.

She apparently said her information came from the coroner's office.

"We will prove that this call was made even before the murders were committed," says the source, "and that someone else must have known about the crime.


"One of our investigators has found the police officer who documented this call," says the source.
"It is amazing how conveniently this piece of information is being ignored by the prosecution and the LAPD."

Star Magazine
March 14 1995

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'An Obsessive Relationship...'

April 11, 2013, 4:38 am
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Kato Kaelin, 36, captivated the nation with his jittery, hyperactive and at times funny appearance as a key witness in the O.J. murder trial, where prosecutor Marcia Clark grilled him about his relationship with Simpson and Nicole.

A court insider says: "Everyone's talking about what was really going on between Kato and Nicole.
"Why did she let this wannabe actor live in her house and babysit her kids?"

And sources told STAR that Simpson was obsessed by the very same questions.


For months after Kato moved in with Nicole, O.J. believed he was more than just a wise-cracking jester at her home.

O.J. became suspicious after Kato took over the guest house in the back yard of Nicole's rented property on Gretna Green Way, Brentwood, in the spring of 1993, after agreeing to pay her $400 a month rent.

And he was angered when word got back to him that Nicole was telling everyone: "You should meet my new babysitter. He's just the cutest guy."

One of her close friends said: "We all thought it was amusing that Nicole should use Kato to look after her kids.
"Kato's boyish charm and impish behavior was just what Nicole needed. She was vulnerable and needed a guy around the house..."

Star Magazine
April 11 1995
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'A Defence Strategy of Altercation...'

April 16, 2013, 3:26 am
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It is fair for the defence to introduce evidence about racist remarks allegedly made by a detective 10 years ago, but not fair for the prosecution to introduce evidence about Simpson's wife-battering, what the defence prefers to describe as "so-called domestic violence", or "domestic discord".

The night Simpson gave Nicole such a beating that she told police she thought he was going to kill her is routinely referred to by Cochran as "an altercation".

But the defence tactics hit rock bottom on the day Nicole's older sister, Denise, gave evidence.

Denise was close to her slain sister and bears a striking resemblance to her; it was absolutely understandable that she should begin to cry on the witness stand when she was describing how Nicole was treated by Simpson - on one occasion he grabbed her crotch in a crowded bar and bellowed "This belongs to me!" - but every time she began to weep the defence objected and asked for a "sidebar", a huddle with the judge and the prosecution lawyers out of earshot of the jury.

Denise, dressed head to foot in black and wearing a silver cross that belonged to Nicole, ended her testimony that day tearfully recalling the last time she saw her sister, only hours before she was killed. They had been together at a dance recital at the school attended by Nicole's nine-year-old daughter, Sydney, and then went out to dinner.

Afterwards Nicole said she was going off to buy some ice cream for the kids and they said goodbye. They kissed and Denise told her sister that she loved her. At that point Denise broke down completely, sobbing pitifully, unable to continue. It was painful to watch...


I imagined, perhaps naively, that nobody in the courtroom could fail to be moved by Denise's grief at the loss of her sister. I was wrong.

When Cochran breezed out of the court building that weekend, he announced to reporters that he thought Denise might have been putting on an act, coached by the prosecution. "That is one of the reasons we kept approaching the bench. I saw it coming. We kept trying to say it was not fair."

Someone asked what was so unfair about a woman weeping and Cochran replied: "If it was planned, is that fair?"

The Magazine
The Sunday Times
April 16 1995

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'Covering Up the Truth'

April 16, 2013, 5:30 pm
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The Simpson trial is hardly typical of what goes on in courtrooms daily across America.

But however unwittingly, Jeanette Harris's interviews opened an important window on issues that have reverberated since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman last June.

She showed - again - how blacks and whites view the judicial system in profoundly different ways. She raised questions about the cherished system of trial by jury, and the role that money plays for criminal defendants.
She illustrated how the intense pressure of the news media can transform the judicial process.

In the confines of his jail cell, Simpson could leisurely contemplate these issues...


But his team had a week that most murder defendants could only dream about.

Barry Scheck, one of two defense lawyers in charge of blood evidence, skewered criminalist Dennis Fung in a devastating cross-examination. Fung conceded a variety of potentially highly damaging points. 
Among then: that a blanket taken from Nicole's condo to cover her body could have contained O.J.'s hair and clothes fibers - and that could explain how they ended up at the crime scene outside 875 South Bundy.

Having failed a fortnight ago to shake the testimony of Mark Fuhrman, the detective who found the bloody glove, the defense now found itself with a corps of Keystone criminalists and coroners to torment.

The impact was not lost on former L.A. district attorney Ira Reiner. "The defense is going to take that blanket and make it large enough to cover everything from Bundy to Rockingham before they're through with it," he said.

Newsweek Magazine
April 17 1995


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'The Brutal Truth...'

April 17, 2013, 5:30 pm
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A spine tingling computer re-enactment of the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman reveal that the killer cruelly tortured both victims before slaying them.

Experts also say that the attacker took off his gloves to feel for his dark woolen cap, which had been knocked off during the death struggle.

The amazing re-creation, which marked its debut of the USA Network, was pieced together using medical evidence from the victims' bodies and measurements from the crime scene by Failure Analysis Associates of Menlo Park, Calif.

It's the same firm that re-created for investigators the 1981 Hyatt-Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
"What we have created is the only hypothesis of the murders that accounts for all of the major wounds, the final positions of the bodies, and the timing of the attacks," boasts Failure Analysis C.E.O. Roger McCarthy.


The fatal sequence, which runs 3 minutes and 40 seconds, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and took 23 days to make.

McCarthy says the assailant was portrayed as a black man because 26 African-American hairs were found in the cap left behind by the killer...

Globe Magazine
April 18 1995

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'People Loved Her...'

April 25, 2013, 6:33 am
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Nicole Brown met O.J. Simpson in 1977 when she was just 18 years old. 
O.J. was 30 at the time and arguably one of the greatest football players of all time. Seven years later. she became his second wife.

In the course of her adult life, Brown, who moved in with Simpson soon after graduating from Dana Hills High School in Dana Point, California, held only two jobs - that of waitress and sales clerk. Her entire working career lasted no more than a few months.
Yet, as the wife of an NFL superstar, Nicole Simpson led a life surrounded by beautiful things, full of leisure time and travel to exotic destinations.

Who  was Nicole Brown Simpson?

She was a beautiful girl who came of age amidst luxury and fame; the one-time wife of a great American athlete; a mother of two.
People loved her.

Days after her death the bloodstains on the steps outside her condominium had still not been scrubbed away...


O.J. Simpson: From Triumph to Tragedy
Collectors Edition
The Rise and Fall of a National Hero
(LFP Inc 1994)


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'Just Another Brentwood Sidewalk...'

May 5, 2013, 9:57 am
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Several weeks ago in Los Angeles, inside the ninth-floor courtroom of Judge Lance Ito, there was a weird silence as a bailiff prepared to screen a video of a Brentwood sidewalk on the morning of June 13, 1994.

The sidewalk at 875 South Bundy Drive is now a cultural totem, the most famous crime scene in America.
As the reporters in the courtroom wait for the video to begin, they scribble the precise time and date in their notebooks: February 23, 1.38pm.

There are no windows in Judge Ito's courtroom, no sense of the outside world; the tension is unrelieved as the lights go dim. "Let's take it from the top," Ito says.
We hear static and then, on a large screen behind the jurors' box, there is the first image of daylight: stalks of purple agapanthus blowing on a sunny day in June, Nicole Brown Simpson's summer perennial border. Blue Lilies of the Nile, creeping phlox.

At his seat at the defense table on the left side of the court, O.J. Simpson fidgets, then looks down at his feet.

Above us, visible through the scrim of agapanthus, are the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, shrouded in yellow tarps. The edges of the tarps flutter.

I resist the temptation to write in my notebook that it is an ordinary day in court - as if any day in "the Simpson matter" could be routine - but on the afternoon's calendar there is a defense motion, a "housekeeping procedure" to examine this particular video, taken by a Channel 5 camerman, of several police officers moving heavily through their duties on the morning of June 13.


This not a minor piece of business: It is a major contention of the defense that the L.A.P.D. botched the investigation, smeared the invisible footprints, mixed up the DNA.

In anticipation of the viewing of the crime scene, the reporters and the family in the courtroom are unusually fraught.

One of the more startling aspects of The State of California v. Simpson has been our realization of the capricious nature of the video camera; it can be anywhere at any time, wielded by a wandering parent at a Brentwood middle-school parking lot after a ballet recital or held casually by a TV camerman on South Bundy Drive on the morning after the murders and later subpoenaed to be viewed inside a courtroom while more than 15 million people watch...

Marie Brenner
Beyond the Courtroom
Vogue Magazine


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Denise Brown and a Crusade for Life...

May 13, 2013, 8:09 am
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Reporters who cover trials often say of witnesses that you have to take them as you find them; the same rule applies to the families of murder victims.
A murder trial is a narrative, a collection of family stories.

As a story, Denise Brown has the ambiguities of Becky Sharp. Was she prepared to be held up for scrutiny as the older sister of the most famous murder victim in postwar American history?

While Denise is in New York, I notice in her tote bag a single book: Insane Jealousy, a study of domestic violence - a phrase she routinely says she never heard until June 13, 1994.

Every interviewer now asks her the same question: How could she not have known that Nicole was being battered?
Why did she come out at first and say that Nicole was not a victim of domestic abuse?

It is a measure of the desperation of the family and the madness of this trial that Denise chooses to grieve in public, airing her confidences to Geraldo Rivera, who has become not only her close friend but a booker for reporters who seek interview time.

Her conversation has a definite agita; she speaks in the idiom of twelve-step programs. She says, "I don't want to spend my time thinking about what-ifs, what-ifs. Nicole never told us she was battered! She would say, 'He threw me against the wine cabinet, and then we went out to lunch.'"

Denise does not dwell on what the family chose not to see. "What good would that do?... I want to help other women now. This foundation is my crusade for life. Now I am a happy person. I have a mission and a cause."


Is it mean-spirited to speculate that, as in the case of many battered women, Nicole's family seemed intent on not seeing the truth of what was going on?

Denise has taken on the public role for the family; it is her odd task to advance the narrative of what the Brown family knew about the Simpson marriage. There are many episodes that she willingly retails: When Nicole attended a Buffalo Bills game on an early date, O.J. blew up when he saw her kiss a friend on the cheek. Denise said to her younger sister, "This is ridiculous. What are you doing with this guy?"

She is reduced to admitting, "He was awful again and again. And when it was good, they were in a honeymoon phase, and they would go around and around in a vicious circle."

Marie Brenner
Beyond the Courtroom
Vogue Magazine
(May 1995)

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No Love Story! The Story of a Sister's Grief...

May 23, 2013, 8:27 am
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As young girls, Nicole and Denise resembled Ali MacGraw; they were even known for this at Rancho Alamitos High.
It was the era of small noses and good bones, Love Story, skimmer dresses bought from Jax, long straight hair.

Like MacGraw, Denise has perfect teeth, a star's smile, dark eyes set far apart, a pouty loneliness around the edges. Denise attempts breeziness, a spark of lightness. She speaks of her childhood as if it were LittleWomen in Disneyland - four sisters curling one another's hair, discussing cosmetics tips.

For some observers, the Brown daughters appear as if they are at an endless summer camp; they are very attached to their mother and one another. When they travel, they are in and out of one another's hotel rooms, staying late into the night.

In New York, Denise drops by my house on her way to the airport, surprising me in my pajamas. "At my house, we live in our pajamas," she says.
They are a family without cultural pretensions.

It was at one time Denise's ambition to be a flight attendant, but she told me she never had the discipline to achieve it. "Imagine if I could have traveled around the world..."

Instead, a photographer discovered her during high school at a rock concert, took a picture of her at her parents' Dana Point house - her mother forbade her to go to the Sodom of Los Angeles for the shoot! - and she was suddenly on the cover of a magazine in Spain.

She signed with Eileen Ford and left for locations in Europe, unprepared for the early-morning rigor. The actual grittiness of a model's life did not agree with her larky California ways. Drugs and alcohol reared their heads. 

Now Denise Brown will remain as a snapshot and a headline: 
A SISTER'S GRIEF.


Her picture is the story - a sister sobbing on the witness stand. 
And then the words: "He grabbed Nicole, told her to get out of his house, picked her up, threw her out of the house. She ended up falling. She ended up on her elbows and on her butt."

"Are you OK, Miss Brown?"
"Yes, it's just so hard. I'll be fine."....

Marie Brenner
Beyond the Courtroom
Vogue Magazine


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"Can You Believe This?" A Joke of a Trial...

June 2, 2013, 4:50 am
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While Denise Brown is in New York, I ask her about her dreams.
"I don't dream," she says. Except once, when Nicole came to her. "She told me that a friend in my life - just a friend, not a boyfriend - was bad news."

"What will you do of O.J. gets acquitted?" I ask her. "I don't even want to think about that," she says.

Denise is under subpoena and says she cannot comment on the trial, but she has told friends that she believes what is going on inside the courtroom is, in a phrase of Robert Hughes's a "ritual of dementia," a courtroom out of control.

One day while I was in court, a screen fell over by the witness stand. Judge Ito said, "This is bad karma day." Denise turned to her father and asked, "Does he think this trial is a joke?"


In the early days of California v. Simpson, it was common to say that the presence of television cameras would educate the American public about the legal process.
California v. Simpson has, however, become less a textbook murder case and more a performance, a trial by Hollywood standards, as if each day's maneuvers warrant a box-office rating.

Several columnists have nicknamed Lance Ito "Judge Ego" for his obvious preening for the cameras; CNN has hired 500 lawyers as commentators since the trial began.

While I was in L.A., Judge Ito announced that court would recess each day at 3.00 p.m., as if his delight in being on television was so intense he wanted the trial to extend till fall.

On the afternoon that Rosa Lopez is set to take the stand, we are in New York and I am curious to hear a few moments of the testimony; Denise reluctantly agrees.

I watch her face as she listens to the portentous swelling music that signals "The Simpson Trial!" "Can you believe this?" Denise says. 

An artist's rendering of Denise's former brother-in-law fills the TV screen in my library. "I hate him," she says. "I hope he burns in hell. Every time there is a four-day weekend I am glad because it means he has to stay in jail."

Marie Brenner
Beyond the Courtroom
Vogue Magazine
(May 1995)


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'A Believable Scenario...'

June 6, 2013, 6:30 am
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O.J. Simpson killed ex-wife Nicole after she attacked him first with a kitchen knife, slicing his finger.
Then Ronald Goldman stumbled onto the scene and jumped to her aid - and an enraged O.J. had to kill him, too.

That's the shocking scenario presented by O.J.'s attorneys during recent top-secret meetings with prosecutors to work out a plea bargain, according to sources close to the case.


The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that O.J.'s defense team is pushing for a deal in which the fallen star   - now charged with first-degree murder - would plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for seven years behind bars.

O.J.'s lawyers also are asking that he do his time in a cushy "country club" type federal prison instead of a dangerous state prison.

But prosecutors, who have met secretly with the star's lawyers three times in recent weeks, want O.J. to plead guilty to second-degree murder and serve a longer term.

During the top-secret plea-bargain negotiations, O.J.'s legal advisers put forth their sensational scenario explaining how the murders took place, said a source close to the case.
"And the prosecution and the police believe the scenario is what actually happened."

National Enquirer Magazine
June 6 1995

'It Was All Her Fault!'
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'A Life So Brief...'

June 12, 2013, 9:56 am
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Remembering Nicole…
Nineteen Years and Counting...

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'A Dear Guardian...'

June 12, 2013, 4:30 pm
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Here's who Sydney and Justin live with now: Nicole's parents, Juditha (Dita) and Louis Brown; Denise Brown and her nine-year-old son, Sean; Dominique Brown and her six-year-old son, Aaron; and Nicole's dog Kato.

They all live in an unpretentious upper-middle-class home, three blocks from the beach, in a gated Orange County community with friendly neighbors who thoughtfully turn over the tabloids in local stores when family members come in.

The living and dining rooms of the Browns' home are open and sunny, and everywhere you look there are pictures of Nicole.

A huge charcoal and colored-chalk sketch of her, framed in gold, dominates one living room wall. There are photos of her on the bookshelves, beside a volume called Mysteries of the Unexplained.

At the end of the dining room table is a shrine - red and pink and white roses, lighted candles, angels, Easter bunnies and children's artwork, all surrounding a photograph of Nicole...


Sometimes at night their aunts or grandparents read aloud some of the notes and cards sent to Sydney and Justin, particularly the ones from children with poems or prayers in them.

And the devoutly Catholic Dita always leads her grandchildren in one prayer before bed:

Angel of God, my guardian dear,
To whom God's love commits me here,
Ever this night be at my side,
To light and guard, to rule and guide.

Life Magazine
June 1995



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'Tortured by Guilt...'

June 19, 2013, 4:30 pm
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Soap opera hunk Grant Cramer is finally breaking his silence about his secret love affair with Nicole Simpson - and he's tortured by guilt over her tragic murder.

The two were swept up in a passionate romance the year before Nicole's death and she fell hard for the handsome actor. But Grant ended up rejecting the blonde beauty. Broken-hearted, she was driven back to the arms of O.J. Simpson - who had brutally beaten her.


Now grieving Grant told a friend he's tormented by the thought that if he had only given Nicole the committed relationship she so desperately wanted, she might still be alive today.

"I could have taken her far away from her troubles," he said. "If we had stayed together I could have saved Nicole."

The former star of "The Young and the Restless" is so troubled by Nicole's murder that when he was interviewed on ABC's "PrimeTime Live" on June 7, he refused to go into detail about their intense relationship. And he wouldn't comment when contacted by The Enquirer.

But he told his friend: "I think about Nicole every day. It breaks my heart that she died like that. She was a beautiful woman, inside and out. She deserved a better life and a better death than she was given."

National Enquirer Magazine
June 20 1995
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'A Living Hell'

June 26, 2013, 5:30 pm
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"When Nicole was alive, laughter and love filled the Brown household. They were a very close-knit, affectionate family. Now it's as cold as a morgue inside the home shared by Nicole's parents, two of her three sisters and her children Justin and Sydney."

"Sadly, the Browns are the living victims in the O.J. Simpson case. This poor family has been through hell."


Incredibly, O.J.'s daughter Arnelle, by his first wife Marguerite, recently attacked the entire family after Life magazine ran photos of Sydney and Justin at home, a source close to the family disclosed.

"Arnelle called the Browns and screamed: 'My dad doesn't appreciate your exploiting Sydney and Justin. Your're ruining their lives with all the publicity!'

"The Browns were outraged over Arnelle's attack. They're convinced that O.J. murdered the kids' mom - so it took some nerve for him to complain the children were being exploited!"

Family members quit going to O.J.'s trial several weeks ago because they couldn't stand to hear gruesome details of Nicole's savage murder day after day. But recently police asked them to start attending again - saying their presence might influence the jury to convict O.J.

"The O.J. case is wrecking this once-happy family - and there seems to be no end in sight."

National Enquirer Magazine
June 27 1995

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'Ready to Face the Future...'

July 3, 2013, 5:00 pm
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I was jolted awake on the morning of June 13, 1994, by a gut-wrenching sound. It was the wails of my oldest sister, Denise. My bedside clock said 6:15, and I just knew something was terribly wrong.

"What happened?" I called out as I rushed into her son Sean's bedroom, on whose bed she was not sitting, crying. 
"Coco's dead!" Denise said. "Coco who?" I asked. I was groggy and so shocked by her words that it didn't register that she was using an old nickname for my second-oldest sister.

"Nicole is dead!" she repeated. "Denise! It can't be!" I answered, my head swimming in disbelief. I leaned over and hugged her, telling her, "You just saw Nic last night," as if that would disprove her devastating news. She then went down the hall yelling, "He finally did it! He finally killed her!"

"He" was our brother-in-law, O.J. Simpson.


The previous day, Denise, Sean, our other sister Dominique (Mini), Mini's son, Aaron, and our parents had driven from our home in Laguna Beach, California, to Brentwood to watch Sydney, Nicole and O.J.'s daughter, in a dance recital.
Afterward they'd all had dinner at Mezzaluna, except O.J. who hadn't been invited.

Over the next emotional days, my family often spoke of the dinner. Nic had felt great about her recent decision to end her and O.J.'s attempts to reconcile.
She was finally ready to face the future without him.

Tanya Brown with Sheila Weller
"We Tried to Save Each Other's Lives"
Redbook Magazine
July 1995


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