How Nicole Brown Simpson’s Homicide Will Be Reexamined in New Sequence
O.J. Simpson met Nicole Brown in 1977 and divorced his first spouse, Marguerite, in 1979. He married Nicole on Feb. 2, 1985; their daughter Sydney was born eight months later, and son Justin was born in 1988.
“You guys by no means do something,” Nicole advised police once they arrived on the Simpson house at 360 N. Rockingham Ave. in L.A.’s posh Brentwood neighborhood, responding to a home abuse name within the the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 1989, in accordance with experiences about that night time. “You by no means do something. You come out. You have been right here eight instances. And also you by no means do something about him.”
Simpson insisted he did not beat Nicole, solely pushed her off the bed. Then, advised he wanted to go together with the officers to the police station, he drove off as a substitute. Just a few days later, Nicole went to the station and mentioned she did not really need them to proceed with a prosecution, however she consented to out-of-court mediation.
On Could 24, 1989, Simpson was sentenced to 24 months of probation, ordered to carry out 120 hours of neighborhood service and pay fines totaling $470, and was advised to attend counseling twice per week (he was allowed to do it by cellphone) after pleading no contest to misdemeanor home violence.
Nicole finally moved out with Justin and Sydney and filed for divorce in February 1992. They settled that October, with O.J. agreeing to pay her a lump sum of $433,750, plus $10,000 a month in baby help, and she or he retained the title of a rental property. She finally purchased a rental at 875 S. Bundy Drive in Brentwood and moved there in January 1994.
All of the whereas, Simpson was alternately threatening her and making an attempt to get again collectively. In response to prosecutors and witnesses, O.J. had stood exterior and appeared by her window on a number of events, together with one time when she was having intercourse with a boyfriend. Per Jeffrey Toobin‘s 1996 ebook The Run of His Life, in a diary entry from June 3, 1994, Nicole detailed a latest risk from Simpson: “‘You cling up on me final nite, you are gonna pay for this bitch…You assume you are able to do any f–king factor you need, you have acquired it comming [sic]…” and so forth.
She known as a battered ladies’s shelter in Santa Monica on June 7, 1994, to lament that her ex was stalking her. 5 days later she was lifeless.
