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