30 years after Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, her sisters tell her story in docuseries
NEW YORK — To Nicole Brown Simpson's sisters, she was the quiet, serious one — the one who bit her fingernails down to stubs but also loved to entertain and throw lavish parties.
But in the 30 years since she was stabbed to death, along with her friend Ron Goldman, in a horrific crime that became one of the most defining moments of the 1990s, that sense of her humanity — of who Nicole was outside her doomed, abusive marriage to football star O.J. Simpson — has gotten lost amid the sensationalism.
Her sisters Denise, Dominique and Tanya Brown are hoping to correct this imbalance with "The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson," a four-part documentary focusing on the woman at the center of one of the most notorious murders in modern history.
Premiering June 1 on Lifetime and airing over two nights at 8 p.m. Eastern, the series includes interviews with roughly 50 subjects involved in the case, including journalists, lawyers and infamous figures like Brian "Kato" Kaelin.
But it also features intimate home movies and photographs, many taken by Nicole herself, and includes moving recollections from family and longtime friends who can speak to the woman they knew. The documentary brings her voice to life in a way that has rarely been seen, and it stands in contrast to the countless books, podcasts and TV shows about the murders.
Viewers learn about how Nicole was born in Germany but became the quintessential California beach girl, the second of four which became a media circus and resulted in a shocking . But it also looks at the painful aftermath for the Brown family, who were forced to relinquish custody of Nicole's two children, Sydney and Justin, to O.J. and find their own ways of protecting her memory.
