When news of Nicole’s murder broke in the early hours of June 13, 1995, the media finally came alive with memories of OJ’s abusive behavior – which was strangely common knowledge and yet…
According to Jeffrey Toobinthe 1996 account of the Simpson affair, The race of his life (the source material for The People v. OJ Simpson), at 3:58 a.m. on New Year’s Day 1989, Nicole called 911. When police arrived, her face was bruised, she had a handprint on her neck, and she was hiding in the bushes at outside, wearing a bra and sweatpants. OJ denied beating her, and when the police asked OJ to go to the station, he left in his Bentley. Ultimately, Nicole was reluctant to press charges, but she signed the police report and OJ – who would later suggest that Nicole had often been violent with him but he continued to love her “too much” – was prosecuted for misdemeanor battery.
It’s not that any of this has been swept under the rug – on the contrary, it’s been more or less ignored by the media, let alone prosecuted. When deciding whether to file charges, the LAPD officer Mike Farrell I asked around if any cops remembered any other incidents at the Simpsons. Only one, Mark Fuhrman (whose detective career would end after OJ’s trial), would say he was called there in 1985, but the cops actually went there eight times before New Year’s 1989.
The Simpsons divorced in 1992. When police notified Nicole’s parents of her death by telephone two years later, her older sister Denise Brown was online and shouted, “He killed her!” He finally killed her!
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