OJ Simpson met Nicole Brown in 1977 and divorced his first wife, Marguerite in 1979. He married Nicole on February 2, 1985. Their daughter Sydney was born eight months later, and their son Justin was born in 1988.
“You guys don’t do anything,” Nicole told police when he arrived at Simpson’s home at 360 N. Rockingham Avenue in the gorgeous Brentwood district of LA in response to an early morning call for domestic abuse on January 1, 1989. “You never do anything. You come out. You have been here eight times, and you do nothing about him.”
Simpson claimed he didn’t defeat Nicole and just kicked her out of bed. He then said he needed to go to the police station with the officers, he drove instead. A few days later, Nicole went to the station and told them she didn’t want to proceed with the prosecution, but she agreed to a court mediation.
On May 24, 1989, Simpson was sentenced to 24 months of probation, served 120 hours of community service, was ordered to pay a total of $470 fine, and was told to attend counseling twice a week after not suing misdemeanor domestic violence (allowed to do so over the phone).
Nicole eventually moved with Justin and Sydney and filed for divorce in February 1992. They settled that October, and OJ agreed to pay her $10,000 a month in lump sum and child support, and she held the rental property title. She eventually purchased a condo at 875 S. Bundy Drive in Brentwood and moved there in January 1994.
Meanwhile, Simpson threatened her alternately, trying to get back together. According to prosecutors and witnesses, OJ stood outside and looked into the window multiple times, including one time he had sex with his boyfriend. According to Jeffrey Toobin’s 1996 book The Run of Life, in a diary entry from June 3, 1994, Nicole detailed the recent threats from Simpson.
She called for a shelter for a woman abused in Santa Monica on June 7, 1994, and lamented that her ex was stalking her. Five days later she was dead.
