Inside the Final Days of O.J. Simpson’s Ex-Wife Nicole Brown Simpson

OJ Simpson encounter Nicole Brown in 1977 and divorced his first wife, Daisy, in 1979. He married Nicole on February 2, 1985; their daughter Sydney was born eight months later and his son Justin was born in 1988.

“You never do anything,” Nicole told police when they arrived at the Simpson home at 360 N. Rockingham Ave. in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, responding to a domestic violence call in the early morning hours of January 1, 1989. according to reports from that night. “You never do anything. You come out. You’ve been here eight times. And you never do anything about it.”

Simpson insisted he did not beat Nicole, but simply pushed her off the bed. Then he was told he had to accompany the officers to the police station, so he left instead. A few days later, Nicole went to the police station and said she didn’t really want them to press charges, but agreed to out-of-court mediation.

On May 24, 1989, Simpson was sentenced to 24 months of probation, ordered to perform 120 hours of community service and pay fines totaling $470, and was told to attend counseling sessions twice per week (he was allowed to do so by telephone) after pleading no contest to misdemeanor domestic violence.

Nicole eventually moved in with Justin and Sydney and filed for divorce in February 1992. They settled in October, with OJ agreeing to pay her a lump sum of $433,750, plus $10,000 per month in alimony for children, and she retained title to a rental property. . She eventually purchased a condo at 875 S. Bundy Drive in Brentwood and moved there in January 1994.

All the while, Simpson was alternately threatening her and trying to get back together. According to prosecutors and witnesses, OJ stood outside and looked out her window several times, including once while she was having sex with her boyfriend. By Jeffrey Toobinthe 1996 book The race of his lifeIn a June 3, 1994 newspaper report, Nicole detailed a recent threat from Simpson: “‘You hung up on me last night, you’re going to pay for that bitch… You think you can do anything what you want, you have it soon (sic)…” and so on.

She called a Santa Monica battered women’s shelter on June 7, 1994, to complain that her ex was stalking her. Five days later, she was dead.