Today we want to tell our readers about Nicole Brown-Simpson, whose life and death story was so thoroughly discussed by numerous media that it was not in vain recognized as one of the bloodiest and most mysterious in the twentieth century.
On June 12, 1994, a murder occurred in Los Angeles. His bloody details so excited the law-abiding America that the attention of central television channels, major magazines and news services to this case did not diminish for six months, while the preliminary investigation was carried out, 134 days of the trial and several decades following the acquittal of the brutal killer.
Nicole
Nicole Brown-Simpson (Nicole Brown-Simpson), was born in Frankfurt am Main, located in Western Germany, in 1959. Shortly after her birth, her mother, Judith Ann and her father, Louis Hezekil Brown, moved to America, where in the city of Dana Point, their daughter grew up and graduated from high school.
Like all young California beauties, Nicole from a young age understood that youth and model appearance are capital that must be successfully invested in the future, exchanging for a successful marriage. At the age of 18, she already worked as a waitress in an elite nightclub in Los Angeles, where she once met the favorite of America, the hero of the national football league and the 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 started, O.J. Simpson was married, had three children, was known as an incorrigible womanizer and cocaine, and hardly one of his many passions could hope to ever get him a husband.
Another blonde, who appeared next to the NFI star, no one took seriously. Who would have thought that this girl would one day bear the 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, worked as a waitress in one of the elite nightclubs of the City of Angels.
The love of an eighteen-year-old supporter for a thirty-year-old football star could not but cause questions among both many fans and the family of the girl herself. But a year later, Simpson left his wife, and after another 6 years, the couple had a daughter, Sydney. In 1988, the second child was born, the boy Justin, but neither marriage nor the appearance of two children softened the frenzied disposition that O.J. Simpson possessed. Nicole Brown, no matter how hard she tried, could not make him happy.
Joyless marriage
The relationship of the couple from the very beginning was not cloudless. The constant scandals, the beatings that Nicole Brown-Simpson suffered more often, calls to the rescue service and the police, who became frequent guests in the couple’s house. Stormy quarrels constantly became food for the ubiquitous journalists, neighbors scribbled complaints about fights and noise.
In 1989, a police outfit who came to call the Simpsons family found 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 came to the police station to pick up the statement.
The story of how, after a major family scandal two weeks after the next birthday of Nicole, the brutalized O. Jay kept his wife in the closet for six hours, periodically visiting there to give the next portion of cuffs true, was told to reporters by Mrs. Brown's friends -Simpson (Nicole Brown-Simpson) a few days after her murder.
For seventeen years, Nicole lived in constant fear. The husband could pounce on her with fists for the slightest offense. Her whole life was subordinated to attempts to predict what could provoke another attack of marital anger: towels asymmetrically hung in the bathroom, a lack of sugar in morning coffee, or the look of a random passerby thrown after her.
Is it free?
In 1992, Nicole Brown-Simpson decided to divorce and left her husband, taking the children. She lived in house number 875 on South Bundy Drive and tried to start all over again. 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. And yet she did everything possible to become free.
The white Ferrari, which she was wearing around the City of Angels, decorated number L84AD8, which can be read in English as “late for a date, ” the Akita Inu dog served not only as a guard, but also brightened up leisure time, young athletes curled around, pleasing the eye with a model appearance. It would seem that everything began to improve, and peace finally came to life Nicole Brown-Simpson. The diary that she was accustomed to keep since school times, the closest friends Chris Jenner and Fay Reznik, as well as her mother and sister Denise - these were all who knew that nothing had ended.
The woman wrote in her diary that wherever she goes, her ex-husband does not leave her alone. At a gas station, in a supermarket, at a concert of a famous music group. He was everywhere. Whether this was actually so or Nicole Brown-Simpson was gradually losing her mind, 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 how his desire to hurt her might end. I knew and was afraid.
Friends or lovers?
In order to distract herself from the panic horror that constantly pursued her and painful memories of the humiliation suffered in the marriage, Nicole surrounded herself with numerous fans who helped her raise her trampled self-esteem a bit and feel herself desired. Once in a class at a fitness club, she met a young trainer, Ronald Goldman.
The nature of their relationship could not be fully clarified either to friends or to the trial that followed the murder. According to the testimony of relatives and friends of Goldman, those killed were just good friends, while many of Nicole Brown-Simpson's acquaintances seemed to have tender feelings for the young people.
One way or another, on the evening of the tragedy, Ron responded to Nicole's call with a request to bring in glasses that were supposedly accidentally forgotten by her mother in a restaurant. In favor of the version of the tender feelings that connect Goldman with a woman, the fact is that before the visit he jumped home to change clothes and take a shower.
Ronald goldman
Ron Goldman was a young rake from a good Jewish family. He was born in Illinois, where, after the divorce of his parents, he lived first with his mother, and then with his father. He entered the university there, but a year later, apparently burdened by a load of knowledge, he dropped out of school 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 his credit, it should be said that he was clearly not an alpha.
By the age of 25, he managed to change many professions, worked as a waiter, tennis instructor and model for displaying clothes. Ronald Goldman was an avid party-goer, but had a kind heart, as evidenced by the two-year volunteer work with disabled children. Shortly before the murder, the young man received a certificate for ambulance work, but did not manage to use it. Ron's dream was to open his own restaurant, which he wanted to name in honor of the Egyptian symbol of life tattooed on his shoulder. At the time of the tragedy, he worked as a waiter in 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 could have turned 26 years old.
Killed
On June 12, shortly before midnight, the neighbors, drawn by the endless barking of a dog belonging to Nicole, went up to house 875 on South Bundy Drive and found on the path a terribly mutilated corpse of the mistress, whose head 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 practically poked with a knife.
Arriving at the crime scene, a police outfit cordoned off the territory and called a medical team to note 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 was identified as Ronald Goldman. Authorities contacted the husband of the victim to take care of the children. According to law enforcement officers, Simpson was not at all surprised or even asked how his ex-wife died.
Guilty?
The ex-husband, who was repeatedly accused of persecution 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 O.J. Simpson wanted to kill her. The fact that both of those killed were white and the main suspect black, greatly complicated both the investigation and the ensuing trial, which lasted 134 days.
The ubiquitous journalists, the public, pressuring witnesses and the court, round-the-clock coverage of events on central television channels - all of this together and individually did their job. Three important witnesses were removed from the testimony due to interviews with the yellow press for money, testimonies from friends and tape recordings of calls to the police were not taken into account. Six jurors lost their authority for disobeying the rules of conduct of the trial, and Judge Lance Ito could not decide to take sides, prolonging the procedure, the pressure of the media was great both on him and on the other participants in the trial.
Subsequently, numerous lawyers and media representatives in their interviews noted the fact of such emotionality and public involvement in the trial of the killer Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend, that the facts gradually ceased to matter. Otherwise, how can we explain that after 134 days from the beginning of the trial, the jury, most of whom were black women, recognized Orenthal James Simpson as innocent, despite the conviction presented by the prosecution as evidence of both intent and motive, and the presence of the accused at the crime scene?
Justified
The trial of the American football star and actor Orenthal James Simpson was recognized as the “process of the century” and, according to numerous evidence, had a huge impact on both the public consciousness and the country's economy and the direction of the development of the media. The emergence of numerous reality shows, round-the-clock news broadcasting and cable channels in the form in which we know them now, humanity owes precisely those twenty-two weeks.
An unprecedented level of polarization of racial problems. The US economy has lost more than $ 20 million due to the fact that by the middle of the process of broadcasting it was seen in the media by about 91% of the population, a significant part of whom left their jobs ahead of schedule. Changing the culture of litigation and press coverage of justice. All this is far from a complete list of the consequences of the world famous trial.
To date, O. Jay Simpson is still in an American prison, he was sentenced to 33 years for robbery with weapons and an attempt to kidnap people. But he did not suffer punishment for the double murder committed in 1994.
Nicole Brown-Simpson, whose funeral took place on June 16, 1994 at Lake Forest Cemetery in California, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, remained unrevened. Their murder has not yet been officially disclosed, although according to numerous opinion polls, 10 years after the end of the trial of O.J. Simpson, 93% of Americans did not doubt his guilt.
