Today we want to tell our readers about Nicole Brown-Simpson (Nicole Brown-Simpson), whose life and death story was discussed in such detail by numerous media that it is not for nothing that it is recognized as one of the bloodiest and most mysterious in the twentieth century.
June 12, 1994, there was a murder in Los Angeles. His bloody details so stirred up law-abiding America that the attention of central television channels, major magazines and news services to this case did not weaken during the six months during the preliminary investigation, the 134 days of the trial and several decades following the acquittal of the brutal killer.
Nicole
Nicole Brown-Simpson was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, in 1959. Shortly after her birth, her mother, Giuditta Ann, and father, Louis Hezekiel Brown, moved to America, where their daughter grew up and graduated from high school in Dana Point.
Like all young Californian beauties, Nicole from a young age understood that youth and model appearance are capital that needs to be successfully invested in the future, exchanging for a successful marriage. At the age of 18, she was already working as a waitress in an elite nightclub in Los Angeles, where she once met America's darling, National Football League hero and rising movie star Orenthal James Simpson. It seemed that the American dream came true, and the girl managed to grab fate by the tail.
Start
When it all began, O. J. Simpson was married with three children, was known as an incorrigible womanizer and cocaine addict, and hardly any of his many passions could ever hope to get him as a husband.
Another blonde who appeared next to the NFI star was not taken seriously by anyone. Who would have thought that this girl would one day have the last name Brown-Simpson? Nicole, most likely, was not disinterested. When they met in 1977, the blonde beauty, who dreamed of becoming an actress and model, was working as a waitress in one of the elite nightclubs in the City of Angels.
The love of an eighteen-year-old waiter for a thirty-year-old football star could not but raise questions both among numerous fans and the girl's family. But a year later, Simpson left his wife, and after another 6 years, the couple had a daughter, Sydney. In 1988, the second child, the boy Justin, was born, but neither marriage nor the appearance of two children softened the rabid disposition that O. J. Simpson possessed. nicole brown,try as she might, she couldn't make him happy.
A Joyless Marriage
The couple's relationship from the very beginning was not cloudless. Constant scandals, beatings, which Nicole Brown-Simpson was subjected to more and more often, calls to the rescue service and the police, who became frequent guests in the couple's house. Violent quarrels constantly became food for the ubiquitous journalists, neighbors scribbled complaints about fights and noise.
In 1989, a police squad, who arrived at a call to the Simpson family's house, discovered Nicole Brown-Simpson, whose photo appeared on the pages of glossy magazines the next day. The woman was beaten so badly that she could hardly speak, but a week later she went to the police station to collect her statement.
The story of how, after a major family scandal that happened two weeks after Nicole's next birthday, O. Jay, brutalized, kept his wife in the closet for six hours, periodically visiting there to give the missus another portion of cuffs, was told reporters by friends of Mrs. Brown-Simpson (Nicole Brown-Simpson) a few days after her murder.
Seventeen years Nicole lived in constant fear. The husband could pounce on her with his fists for the slightest offense. Her whole life has been dominated by trying to predict what might provoke another bout of marital rage: towels hanging asymmetrically in the bathroom, lack of sugar in morning coffee, or the glance of a randoma passerby thrown after her.
Available?
In 1992, Nicole Brown-Simpson decided to divorce and left her husband, taking the children. She lived at 875 South Bundy Drive and tried to start over. In compensation, she received half a million dollars and ten thousand a month for the maintenance of children. At first glance, a lot of money, but it became extremely difficult for a woman to maintain the standard of living to which she was accustomed. Yet she did her best to be free.
The white Ferrari that she drove around the City of Angels adorned the number L84AD8, which can be read in English as "I'm late for a date" (late for a date), the Akita Inu dog did not so much serve as a security guard, how much leisure brightened up, young athletes curled around, pleasing the eye with a model appearance. It would seem that everything began to improve, and peace finally came to the life of Nicole Brown-Simpson. The diary she used to keep since her school days, closest friends Kris Jenner and Faye Resnick, and her mother and sister Denise - that's all who knew that nothing was over.
A woman wrote in her diary that wherever she went, her ex-husband would not leave her alone. At a gas station, in a supermarket, at a concert of a famous musical group. He was everywhere. Whether this was really the case or Nicole Brown-Simpson gradually went crazy, we will never know, but 5 days before the murder, she called the center for psychological assistance to victims of domestic violence and said that her ex-husband was going to kill her. She knew what she couldto end his desire to hurt her. I knew and I was afraid.
Friends or lovers?
To distract from the panic horror that constantly haunts her and the painful memories of the humiliation suffered in marriage, Nicole surrounded herself with numerous admirers who helped her to raise a little trampled self-esteem and feel desired. One day in a fitness club, she met a young coach, Ronald Goldman.
The nature of their relationship was never fully clarified either by friends or by the trial that followed the murder. According to Goldman's relatives and friends, the dead were just good friends, while many of Nicole Brown-Simpson's acquaintances thought that tender feelings connected the young people.
One way or another, on the evening of the tragedy, Ron answered Nicole's call with a request to bring glasses, allegedly accidentally forgotten by her mother in a restaurant. In favor of the version of tender feelings connecting Goldman with a woman, is the fact that before the visit he dropped into the house to change and take a shower.
Ronald Goldman
Ron Goldman was a young rake from a good Jewish family. He was born in Illinois, where, after his parents divorced, he lived first with his mother and then with his father. He entered the university there, but a year later, apparently weighed down by a load of knowledge, he dropped out and moved to California. In Los Angeles, the young man entered Pierce College, where he continued to study for some time, combining his studies with surfing, tennis, beach volleyball and karate. To hisit should be honored to say that he was clearly not a gigolo.
By the age of 25, he managed to change many professions, worked as a waiter, tennis instructor and fashion model. Ronald Goldman was an avid party animal but had a good heart, as evidenced by his two years of volunteering with disabled children. Shortly before the murder, the young man received a certificate to work in an ambulance, but did not have time to use it. Ron's dream was to open his own restaurant, which he wanted to name after the Egyptian symbol of life tattooed on his shoulder. At the time of the tragedy, he worked as a waiter at the Mezzaluna restaurant, where he got a job in order to gain experience in the restaurant business and acquire the necessary connections. Ronald Goldman was young, full of hope and possibly in love. A few days after the tragedy, he would have turned 26 years old.
Killed
June 12, shortly before midnight, neighbors, attracted by the endless barking of Nicole's dog, approached 875 South Bundy Drive and found the owner's horribly mutilated corpse on the path, the head of which was practically separated from the wounded body by a transverse cut. Everything around was covered in blood, and not far from the murdered woman lay the body of a man, almost pierced with a knife.
The police squad that arrived at the crime scene cordoned off the area and called a team of doctors who pronounced the death of the mistress of the house, Nicole Brown-Simpson, whose children slept peacefully on the second floor, and an unknown man. Over time he wasidentified as Ronald Goldman. Authorities contacted the victim's husband to take care of the children. According to law enforcement officers, Simpson was not at all surprised and did not even ask how exactly his ex-wife died.
Guilty?
The ex-husband, repeatedly accused of stalking and beatings, was the first on the list of suspects, especially since shortly before her death, the woman called the rehabilitation center for victims of domestic violence and claimed that OJ Simpson wanted to kill her. The fact that both men were white and the main suspect was black greatly complicated both the investigation and the 134-day trial that followed.
The ubiquitous journalists, the public putting pressure on witnesses and the court, round-the-clock coverage of events on central television channels - all this together and separately did their job. Because of interviews given for money to the yellow press, three important witnesses were suspended from testifying, the testimony of girlfriends and tape recordings of calls to the police were not taken into account. Six jurors lost their powers for disobeying the rules of the trial, and Judge Lance Ito could not decide to take sides, dragging out the procedure, so much was the pressure of the media both on him and on the rest of the participants in the process.
Subsequently, numerous lawyers and media representatives in their interviews noted the fact of such emotionality and public involvement in the trial of the murderer Nicole Brown-Simpson and herfriend that the facts gradually ceased to matter. How else to explain the fact that after 134 days from the start of the trial, the jury, most of whom were black women, found Orental James Simpson not guilty, despite the prosecution's convincing evidence of both intent and motive, and the presence of the accused at the scene of the crime?
Exonerated
The trial of American football star and actor Orenthal James Simpson was hailed as the "Trial of the Century" and is said to have had a huge impact on both public consciousness and the nation's economy and the direction of the media. The emergence of numerous reality shows, 24-hour news broadcasts and cable channels as we know them today, mankind owes precisely to those twenty-two weeks.
An unprecedented level of polarization of racial issues. The loss of more than 20 million dollars by the US economy due to the fact that by the middle of the process of its broadcast in the media was watched by about 91% of the population, a significant part of which left their jobs ahead of schedule for this. Changing the culture of litigation and press coverage of justice materials. All this is not a complete list of the consequences of the world-famous trial.
Today, OJ Simpson still sits in an American prison, he was sentenced to 33 years for robbery with a weapon and attempted kidnapping. But he was not punished for the double murder committed in 1994.
Nicole Brown-Simpson, funeralwhich took place on June 16, 1994 at Lake Forest Cemetery in California and her friend, Ronald Goldman, remained unavenged. Officially, their murder has not yet been solved, although according to numerous public opinion polls, 10 years after the end of the trial of O. J. Simpson, 93% of Americans did not doubt his guilt.
Memory
Kris Jenner, a well-known star of the reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, told reporters how, on the day of the funeral, she asked Faye Reznick, a friend of Nicole Brown-Simpson, who shortly before the tragedy stayed in the house of the murdered woman, about what she believes Is she guilty of OJ? Faye was absolutely convinced that the woman was killed by her ex-husband, as proof of which she cited Nicole's numerous stories about persecution by Simpson, as well as the words spoken by her friend a few days before the tragedy: “I'm sure someday he will really kill me! "".
This story gave rise to so many speculations, gossip and unsubstantiated rumors that neither the court, nor the lawyers, nor the police, who arrived at 875 South Bundy Drive on a call from worried neighbors, could restore the real picture of the murder, where they were found murdered by Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman. But today there is little doubt that the acquittal of Orenthal James Simpson in 1995 was a serious miscarriage of justice. The American judicial system prohibits the retrial of a case that has been acquitted, butjustice has prevailed. As OJ Simpson turns 70 this year, he will spend the rest of his life in a Nevada state prison.
