Nicole Brown Simpson

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Nicole Brown Simpson
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Brown in 1993
Born Nicole Brown
(1959-05-19)May 19, 1959
Frankfurt, West Germany
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Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death Stabbing
Resting place Ascension Cemetery
Lake Forest, California
Residence Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
Other names Nicole Brown
Education Rancho Alamitos High School (Freshman/Sophomore Year)
Dana Hills High School (Junior/Senior Year)
Spouse(s) O. J. Simpson (m. 1985–92)
Children Sydney Simpson (b. 1985) & Justin Simpson (b. 1988)

Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson and the mother of two of his children, Sydney and Justin. She was killed at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, along with her friend, restaurant waiter Ron Goldman. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders but was later found liable for the deaths in a civil trial.

Early life and education

Nicole Brown was born May 19, 1959 in Frankfurt, West Germany, to Juditha Anne (Baur) and Louis Hezekiel Brown.[1][2][3] Her mother was German, and her father was American.[1] She attended Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove, California and Dana Hills High School in Dana Point, California.[1]

Personal life

Brown met Simpson in 1977, while working as a waitress at Jack Hanson's Rodeo Drive nightclub "The Daisy".[4][5] Although Simpson was still married to his first wife, Marguerite, he and Nicole began dating. Simpson and Marguerite divorced in March 1979.[6]

Simpson and Brown were married on February 2, 1985, five years after Simpson's retirement from professional football.[6] The marriage lasted seven years, during which time Brown and Simpson had two children, Sydney and Justin. Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 1989.[7] Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992, citing "irreconcilable differences".

During their separation and later divorce, Simpson built a relationship with model Paula Barbieri, and Brown had relationships as well, including an alleged affair with Simpson's friend, fellow football player and football analyst Marcus Allen (who denies the allegation, though it is backed by multiple members of his and Brown's inner circle, such as O. J. Simpson,[8] Faye Resnick,[9] confidants to Sheila Weller,[10] and Simpson's defense attorneys, who claimed Allen confessed the affair to Simpson, and Simpson nonetheless let his friend get married at Simpson's North Rockingham Avenue estate[11][12][13]) and a fling with her friend Faye Resnick.[14][15] Beginning in 1993, Brown and Simpson attempted to reconcile, but "they were a dramatic, fractious, mutually obsessed couple before they married, after they married, after they divorced in 1992, and after they reconciled, at the fraying edge of which reconciliation the murder occurred."[16]

Death

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On the evening of June 12, 1994, aged 35, Brown was murdered outside her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, along with restaurant waiter Ron Goldman. She had been stabbed multiple times in the head and neck, and had defensive wounds on her hands. The wound on her neck was gaping, and through it the larynx could be seen; the C3 vertebra was also incised. O. J. Simpson was arrested for the murders and found not guilty in a controversial criminal trial.[17] He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the two victims' families, and was subsequently jailed for an unrelated armed robbery at a Las Vegas hotel.[18][19]

Post-death

R&B group H-Town dedicated their album Woman's World (1997) to Nicole Brown Simpson to help victims of domestic violence.[20]

In 1996, after the conclusion of the trial, a judge granted Simpson's petition to give him full custody of his and Brown's children, Sydney and Justin.[21] Brown's parents continued unsuccessfully to fight for custody.[22][23]

Brown lived at 875 South Bundy Drive with her and O. J. Simpson's children at the time Brown and Ron Goldman were murdered in the courtyard of that address, on June 12, 1994.[24][25][26] The house sat empty for two years, until the next owner extensively remodelled it and had the address changed to 879 South Bundy Drive.[27][28] In 1997, Simpson was evicted from the estate in which he had lived for 20 years, and which had been his and Brown's marital home, at 360 North Rockingham Avenue, after defaulting on the mortgage. In July 1998, the house was demolished by its next owner, Kenneth Abdalla, an investment banker and president of the Jerry's Famous Deli chain.[29]

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