German-American model and homicide victim, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, who was tried for her murder. The trial became one of the most highly publicized and watched dramas of the decade.
The daughter of a military man posted in Germany, she was raised in California. She met football hero O.J. Simpson the last week of June 1977 when she was 18 and moved in with him soon after. They married in 1985 shortly before the birth of their first child, Sydney Brooke 17 October 1985. A second child, Justin, was born on 6 August 1988.
Police calls confirm that Nicole was beaten by O.J. on 1 January 1989 and threatened on 25 October 1993. They divorced in 1992 but still saw each other as parents of the two children. The divorce settlement gave her $500,000 in cash, a half-million-dollar home in San Francisco and $120,000 a year in child support. She bought a townhouse in Brentwood, a Ferrari and a Cherokee.
On 12 June 1994, she had dinner out; the waiter, her friend Ronald Goldman (born 2 July 1968), returned her forgotten glasses after he left work at 9:45 PM. Minutes after midnight, their bodies were found, slashed and stabbed to death in Brentwood, California.
Her former husband, O.J. was accused of the murders, an ensuing trial of high notoriety and questionable justice acquitted him of the murders on 3 October 1995. He was found liable for both deaths in a civil suit in 1997.
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