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Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of American football player O. J. Simpson. She was murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman. O. J. Simpson was arrested and found not guilty of murdering both her and Goldman in a controversial criminal trial, but he was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the families of the two victims.
daughter of Juditha Anne and Louis Rudolf Brown, Nicole was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of American football player O. J. Simpson. She was murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman. O. J. Simpson was arrested and found not guilty of murdering both her and Goldman in a controversial criminal trial, but he was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the families of the two victims.
Biography
Early life
The daughter of Juditha Anne and Louis Rudolf Brown, Nicole was born in Frankfurt, Germany. The family moved to Garden Grove, California, where she grew up. She attended Gilbert Elementary School, Skylark Elementary School (GATE program), Hare Intermediate School and Rancho Alamitos High School before moving to Monarch Bay, west of Dana Point, California, in her junior year along with younger sisters Dominique and Tanya and older sister Denise. Brown was elected one of the homecoming princess at Dana Hills High School.
Relationship with O.J. Simpson
Nicole Brown met O.J. Simpson while in June 1977 while working as a waitress at a Beverly Hills nightclub, Daisy. Although still married to his first wife Marguerite, Simpson and Brown began dating. Simpson and Marguerite
divorced in March 1980, Brown and Simpson were married on February 2, 1985, after his retirement from professional football. They had two children together, Sydney Brooke (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988). The marriage lasted seven years, during which Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 1989. Brown filed for divorce in 1992 citing "irreconcilable differences".
Murder
On the morning of June 12, 1994, neighbors, alerted by a barking dog, found the mutilated bodies of Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the enclosed front courtyard of her condo on South Bundy Drive in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Goldman was a waiter at the restaurant Mezzaluna, where Brown and her family had dined that evening. He was at her condominium to return a pair of eyeglasses that Brown's mother, Juditha, had accidentally dropped outside the restaurant at the curb. Both Goldman and Brown had been stabbed multiple times. At the time of the murders, Sydney and Justin, her children with Simpson, were asleep inside the condominium.
O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with both murders; he was acquitted of these crimes in a criminal trial by a mostly black jury. However, in a subsequent civil trial, he was found liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and Goldman and ordered to pay $33,500,000 (USD) to the families of Brown and Goldman. During the trial, Brown's parents were granted temporary custody of Sydney and Justin Simpson. In 1996, a judge granted Simpson's petition to give him full custody of the children. Brown's parents continued unsuccessfully to fight for custody of Sydney and Justin.
In 1994, Nicole Brown's sister Denise Brown established The Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation in Nicole's memory, to assist victims of domestic violence.
Relationship with Goldman
Whether Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were just friends or something more is not known conclusively, but Goldman is always referred to as "her friend". The Los Angeles Times reported on June 15, 1994:
- "Goldman, 25, also had an increasingly close relationship with 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson, whom he had exercised with, accompanied to dance clubs and often met for coffee and dinner during the past month and a half. He told others that he was just friends with Simpson. But he boasted of her stunning good looks and talked about the special kick it gave him to see heads turn when the two of them pulled up in her white Ferrari in front of The Gate, a fashionable West Hollywood dance club, with him behind the wheel....Six weeks ago Goldman was driving the Ferrari, with its highly recognizable L84AD8 license plate, when he joined [another waiter Craig] Clark for lunch at in Santa Monica. Clark said that Goldman told him it was Nicole Simpson's car, but that he did not say she was his girlfriend. 'He said they were friends', Clark recalled."
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