Original subtitles

Here I am, all done swimming.

Say, "That was fun, Mommy."

DENISE: Nicole wanted that white picket fence,

those 2.5 kids, you know?

She wanted that life.

(laughter)

NICOLE: O.J., you look gorgeous right now.

FAYE: As she was learning how to be who she was...

...she was murdered.

Absolutely, 100% not guilty.

DENISE: There was so much public opinin

about everything.

I never thought he did it in the first place.

He said if he ever did it, he would get away with it.

He knows what he did!

Great individual, I hope it's not true.

-MAN 2: O.J. today, O.J.! -WOMAN: I'm very happy

for his family, for his children.

I'm very happy.

D'ANNE: I mean, my God, it was

everywhere you went.

A man widely admired in this country is now

caught in the web of a terrible tragedy.

The Brown family is angry

at the tabloid coverage of her brief life as a single woman.

The media descended like vultures.

REPORTER: $24,000.

$300,000... $30,000 a week.

MAN 3: It's a massive influx of tourists, hundreds

of thousands of dollars, even millions of dollars

that people made off of that trial.

WOMAN 2: The most notorious, most highly publicized

trial of the century.

Okay, I killed the bitch.

It won't fit.

Aah! Oh, my God!

-It doesn't fit. -Look at that.

Oh, no. O.J. has struck again. How about that?

DENISE: You didn't know who you could trust.

-Who's talking to the media? -I totally believe

in my friend's innocence.

DENISE: It wasn't about Nicole, it wasn't about Ron.

It was about who could win. Who played the best game.

COCHRAN: If it doesn't fit,

you must acquit.

It is shortly before noon, Chicago time,

and history is in the making.

FOREWOMAN: We, the jury, in the above entitled action,

find the defendant not guilty.

DENISE: Let's get away with murder.

JASON: I will pursue the killer or killers

who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman.

DENISE: My God, if he was gonna look for the murderer,

he sure didn't do a very good job.

♪ They call me Juice. ♪

(screeching)

♪ The Juice. ♪

WOMAN: It just seemed like a big game.

Only one time did I physically

try to force my will on Nicole Simpson.

-911 emergency. -NICOLE: Can you get someone over here now?

-He's back. -Wait a minute, what's your name?

NICOLE: Nicole Simpson.

If anything, I was

a peacemaker in this house.

DENISE: I mean, he (bleep) up our whole family.

How could one person (bleep) up so many people's lives?

Her children missed out, her family missed out.

NICOLE: ♪ Hello, Sydney. ♪

DENISE: I honestly believe that this world does not know...

PARTYGOERS: ♪ Happy birthday... ♪

...who Nicole Brown was.

NICOLE: I love you.

♪

O.J.: The person who's made the most money out of Nicole's deah

is Denise Brown.

-She ain't on welfare anymore. -DENISE: Excuse me!

You murdered Nicole and you know you did it.

And, you know, I mean, you're just amazing.

What have you ever given me, O.J.?

-O.J.: You're so guilty. -DENISE: You and I,

we didn't get along because you couldn't control me.

-That's why we didn't get along. -Oh, is that it? I think it was

'cause Nicole was afraid you were gonna have sex with m.

-Oh, please! -That's why we didn't get alon.

-It was Nicole that told you to stay away. -Oh, please.

Your ego is just really riding a little bit too high, Simpson.

Mm. (inhales deeply)

PRODUCER: This is Denise interview, take one.

Three cameras.

Oh, okay.

Uh, is there, there's only one name I don't want to say,

if you don't mind. Ever.

DENISE: Okay.

Him.

(children laughing)

DENISE: I was always protecting Nicole

even when we were young.

The two of us being less than two years apart in age,

we had that closeness.

I was born in Germany, in Frankfurt.

My mother is German, she was in Stuttgart.

And my father was an American.

And he went over there for World War II.

And they met after the war.

He decided that he was going to move

the family to California and

it was just Nicole and I

until 1964, when Dominique was born.

♪

I feel like I've kept my Nicole

really private for so long.

She was very, very stubborn.

She was very, very determined

to a point where she was gonna do what she wanted to do

no matter what.

My mom called her hard-headed.

You know, maybe it's time to rekindle the...

the flame of Nicole.

The dynamics between Nicole and I,

we were just always together.

When we moved to Laguna Beach

down to Monarch Bay,

I was a-a senior and she was a junior.

And everybody thought, "Oh, that's gonna be

so difficult for the girls."

And... I don't know.

It wasn't difficult for us, and I think

it was because we had each other.

We would talk about the boys and,

you know, about her dreams, about,

you know, wanting her kids

and wanting to be a mom.

Everybody running around the house,

and just like what my mom and dad had.

TANYA: We're really lucky.

We come from a really... kind of a perfect family.

But we're not perfect.

But compared to what's out there,

we're really blessed to have the family that we did.

A camera, ooh!

-Mama loves the camera. -(laughs)

Hi. Whoop!

(lively chatter)

(laughs) Oh, I just escaped that!

My name is Judie Manto.

And I've been friends with the Brown family

for approximately 50 years.

Judi, who is Nicole's mother,

probably my best friend.

And she was a nurturing, beautiful woman.

Judi and I kind of gravitated to one another.

We'd spend a lot of time at each other's houses.

I have often thought,

in regards to my friend Judi,

would we rather have spared...

...ourselves the terrible heartbreak

of some of the events we've been through,

never having known these people?

And when I give myself that test, it's always...

no, I want to know and love these people.

That's better.

I think living in Monarch Bay,

it was a bit being in a bubble for our children.

Nicole had a great friend, fortunately,

who was a neighbor young man.

So they became roommates in Los Angeles.

And that was a relief to the Browns.

I'm David LeBon.

I've known the Brown families for almost 40 years.

(cheering, clamoring)

Nicole decided that she wanted

to come move up when she was 18 to live with me.

I had a studio apartment, very small apartment.

Just one bed in the living room that folded out like a couch.

I let her sleep on that, and I had a sleeping bag.

It was good times back then, really good times.

A lot of things I just don't remember.

It's been a long time.

When you talk to my ex-wife,

she remembers when she was three. I can't, so, you know?

-Oh, that's all right. -Dirty like me.

Joey likes it.

My name is D'Anne Purcilly.

And I was married to David LeBon.

When I first met Nicole,

the stories that were told to me

were stories when she moved in

with my ex-husband David in Hollywood.

And David said she went to work

at The Daisy and she was working as a hostess.

And that's where she met O.J.

DAVID: Nicole came home one night and she said,

"I've met this guy."

He kept coming in and seeing her and

he had this obsession about her.

She just said, "Oh, he's a, he's some football player.

that's all I know, and his name's O.J. Simpson."

And I went, "Oh, crap."

She goes, "Well, I think, you know, we're gonna go out."

And I went, "Oh, geez, really?

Well, he's much older."

So I said, "Well, when you go out,

I want you home by 12:00."

David said he picked her up in his Rolls Royce.

Impressed her. I mean, you're talking about an 18-year-old.

They came home from the date.

And when she came home,

her pants were ripped.

The zipper was ripped, and they were jeans.

And Dave is like, "You can't just rip jeans

like a linen-something or, you know."

And I said, "Nicole, what hap-- what happened to you?"

"He got a little forceful." And I said,

"Why would you let him do that to you?

Why, on your first date, would you, you know?"

"David, calm down." And I was so pissed.

He was really upset, and he wanted to go out

and, you know, kind of have a few words.

And she said, "No, don't. I really like him.

I really, really like him."

She fell in love with him

I think the first time she met him.

She's just a girl from Laguna

that met a guy that swept her off her feet.

They fell in love.

And...

had this perfect little life.

MAN'S VOICE: Oh, dear God.

In the 60s, I became a sports photographer,

working for Sport magazine.

And SC had a great,

great football team led by O.J. Simpson.

And I-I made a very, very iconic picture

of O.J., you know, breaking that record and winning the game.

One day my daughter, on a Sunday,

comes running into the house.

And she says, "Well, I missed.

He threw a long one and I missed it."

I said, "What do you mean

he threw a long one and you missed it?"

She says, "Well, O.J., you know,

he lives across the street, up the street."

I said, "No, I didn't know he lives there."

And she says, "Well, yeah, every Sunday, you know,

"in the early morning, while you and Mommy are sleeping,

"we go out and he throws footballs

and long ones for us. He plays with the kids."

One morning, all of a sudden,

we get a knock on the door.

There's a police officer that says,

"We just got a call here. What's wrong?

"You know, I'd like to come in, uh,

see your wife, speak to her, you know?"

And I said, "Why?"

He says, "Well, we just got a call."

And I said, "Who are you looking for?"

"Well, this is the Simpson home, isn't it?"

And I said, "No, he's diagonally across the street."

He went up to the house there,

and I don't know what happened after that.

I'm Terry Schauer.

I'm retired Los Angeles police officer.

It was in the '70s.

My partner and I received a radio call, domestic violence.

It was in a residential neighborhood

that's off Mulholland Drive, west of the San Diego Freeway.

And we got to the home,

and we were met at the door by a woman.

She'd got into an argument with her husband,

and during the course of the argument,

he became violent with her, struck her.

As I recall, he pulled out some of her hair.

I believe-- my memory is that there was a clump of hair

on the floor in the entryway of the home.

The children were there, you know, being kids,

just kind of standing around, didn't seem overly upset,

that I recall. She was upset.

He had left the scene.

We spoke to her briefly

and kind of got what story we could,

but she didn't really want

to go into a lot of details about it.

She just wanted to leave the house,

and she had no transportation.

She declined a report and wouldn't sign a report.

She said, "My husband's O.J. Simpson,

the football player."

She identified herself as Marguerite Simpson.

O.J.: Marguerite, well, you know, she's my lady, and, uh,

I was a little wild before I met her,

and she's settled me down.

MARGUERITE: I love the area that we live i.

It's quiet, you know, and, uh, we have a lot of time together.

Usually, he plays a lot of tennis.

SCHILLER: Marguerite, his first wife,

would talk about him getting very, very angry

and flipping out and, uh,

using maybe the back of his hand or something like that,

or push or shove her and this or that.

And it became...

I don't want to say the talk of the neighborhood,

but Marguerite wasn't afraid to express herself

and her difficulties with those people.

The short and long of it is,

sometimes, the aftermath of an event

is more telling than the event itself.

Her name is Veterdata Jones.

After months of watching her famous brother-in-law's

fall from grace,

she decided she had to speak out.

What about reports O.J. was abusive to your sister?

Are those true?

They had their moments where they would disagree on things,

but they were both very private.

My name is Veterdata Jones.

I am Marguerite's youngest sister.

I believe they met in high school.

But she was originally dating Al Cowlings.

O.J.: A.C. Al Cowlings. (chuckles)

Al and I, I mean, what can you say?

If anybody say, "Well, O.J. hasn't changed."

Well, Al probably has a lot to do with that.

VETERDATA: A.C.-- Al Cowlings-- introduced her

to Orenthal James,

and O.J.

moved in on my sister, and I guess they had chemistry

and decided to

become a couple. I don't know. (chuckles)

They all remained very close friends.

I was five years old.

I was flower girl in their wedding.

And when I was in elementary school,

he was in his freshman year at USC,

and he was famous.

It...

...affected the way my sister felt about him

and their relationship as a whole.

He was no longer the person that she married.

She felt that his fame had created

someone else, like, he became a different person.

I would not want to... Yeah, I don't think I should go there.

I think she should address that herself,

if she wants that aired and publicized.

I think that's her prerogative to address that.

It was challenging for them both,

Margie and O.J., um,

to try to come together and reach a happy medium

in their relationship.

They were in the process of...

I don't know at what point in the relationship,

at Rockingham.

I know it was a joint effort to refurbish

the English Tudor, the home,

and things just seemed to have gotten worse.

The paparazzi escalated with information

about him and other women.

I don't know if he met Nicole before Rockingham.

I do not know when that relationship started.

He certainly didn't share it with me.

I mean, we were pretty close.

O.J. was always like a brother,

not like my brother-in-law,

and I would say to O.J., "You're my brother-in-law."

And he said, "No, I'm your brother."

And to this day, he still insists.

He says, "I'm your brother."

God, it makes me want to cry.

Because I felt

the pain between O.J. as well as my sister,

my compassion for them both.

Marguerite and I had just realized

and decided the night before

that it wasn't working with us,

but it was our anniversary, so I went into Beverly Hills.

I bought her a coat, and I ran into a friend of mine.

He said, "Let's have breakfast."

And when we walked in, this... this vision

turned to me and said, "Where do you want to sit?"

Before I went to the party, I had to explain to her

that I was married. (laughs)

Nicole was really in love.

She became a, you know,

a girlfriend of someone who was very famous, an arm piece.

Dave said, just over the course of a month or two,

he had just...

brought her in and

turned her into...

like, a starlet. She was just so beautiful.

She would tell me these things, like, you know,

"O.J. taught me how to hold my mouth

"when pictures were being taken

"and how to hold my head and how to stand

and present myself."

So, she was... I felt like she was just being molded by him

by the time that I met her, and...

But she was very happy and very in love.

There was always a sexual tension

between O.J. and Nicole.

You could just feel it

when somebody has chemistry for another person,

and that's what it felt like.

JUDIE: Judi was really happy.

She would say, "He's a big football player."

You know, she-she thought that that was great, and it was,

of course. He was one of the best football players ever.

And then the things that he would do to annoy Judi,

she would just blow it off, you know, like, oh, so what?

It's nothing.

Like having them all have to have manicures and pedicures.

Which I find odd, but... (laughs)

I mean, if you want your wife to have manicures and pedicures,

great, go for it.

But Judi would say, you know, we'd be in our sandals,

and she-she'd say,

"O.J. would hate to look at my toes right now.

They're not painted right," or something, and I go, "What?"

Um...

(sighs)

O.J. would consult Judi a lot.

He would call her for advice.

DENISE: He felt like he could call her anytime.

And he did call her anytime.

He called her in good times, and he also called her in bad times.

When they were having an argument or a fight,

he would round up his posse, basically,

to say, "Your daughter did this.

Your daughter did this."

You know, to bitch about Nicole.

O.J. would say that she was being crazy

or oversensitive.

Being oversensitive, basically,

turns it into she did something that was wrong,

and it was not his fault that they were having an argument.

The only thing is that then they would make up,

and my parents would still be thinking about it.

But it was like they would have arguments

like couples have arguments.

ANNOUNCER: San Francisco, 1977,

the same year Nicole and O.J. met,

she writes, "The abuse began."

Quote...

Nicole's secret journal is a diary of hate and violence.

DOMINIQUE: I would call her, or she would call me. I'd be at work,

and, um, we would have our conversations.

She'd say, "Yeah, we got in an argument

last night, but, you know, it was no big deal."

I mean, was there something I should've picked up on?

I probably will always think that, you know?

Was there something, was she trying,

was she sending me subtle-subtle hints of...

that something was going on? I don't know.

Which makes me think, because everybody

needs somebody to talk to.

And I don't think she had somebody to talk to.

-Hi, Mom. -NICOLE: (laughs) Hi, Mom.

Hi, Dad, wherever you may be.

D'ANNE: A.C. has been around as long as O.J. had been around

the Brown family because they were pretty much best friends.

He... truly cared

...for Nicole, too.

(growling)

(laughs)

Today is April 17, 1996. The time is approximately 09:00.

This is a test to the audiovisual equipment

for the videotape deposition being taken herein.

KELLY: After Marguerite and Simpson were divorced,

did you remain friends with Marguerite?

Uh, yes.

KELLY: Do you recall ever discussing

the divorce with Mr. Simpson prior to it happening?

No.

KELLY: He never told you why

-he was divorcing Marguerite? -(sighs)

At the time, him and Nicole was going with each other, so...

I assumed that he wanted to marry Nicole.

KELLY: Do you recall when...

...Marguerite moved out of Rockingham

and O.J. moved in there?

I guess that would've been in s...

in, uh, the fall of '79, I-I guess.

Oh, yeah.

I think there was, um...

um, defiance and anger and resentment on her part,

and it overrode sound judgment and good sense, perhaps.

(siren wailing)

VETERDATA: So, that's probably why the police had to come.

It wasn't because she didn't have enough money to go.

After they divorced,

she was walking through the department store,

and she saw

O.J. carrying a bunch of bags and Nicole at his side.

The divorce was not even a year old, so that was hard.

And she came home devastated,

really hurt, angry.

Like, how could you?

It's like putting a dagger in her gut

and turning it around, like...

And I don't mean to describe it like that,

but she was traumatized.

She was very hurt.

I don't know if she had

a good relationship with Marguerite or not,

but I do know she was a great stepmom.

I think it was a little strained with Arnelle, but not bad.

I-I know she loved Arnelle.

O.J.: There's a little Arnelle.

DENISE: Arnelle, being a girl,

I think she tolerated Nicole.

You know, she was more on the side of Mom.

You know, like, you broke up my mom and dad.

You know, that type of thing.

'Cause girls stick with their mothers.

I know Arnelle would kind of make fun of

the way she would say certain words

or swirl her hair around,

but they were starting to all get close

and come together.

And my sister had let down some of her barriers.

Now, she had a great relationship with Jason,

just a nice kid.

Now, he had kind of a rough time,

uh, with his dad.

My son is 14. We had a duke-out just recently.

You actually had a little fight with your son?

Oh, a little boxing match.

I had to let him know that, uh--

You mean you were in the ring with him?

Oh, no. In my front yard.

D'ANNE: One night they had a horrible fight,

and Nicole actually called us

and said, you got to get here,

because Jason was attacking

this statue outside with a baseball bat.

He was so angry at his dad.

She would go up and give him big hugs and kisses

and, you know, got to try and understand your dad.

She knew that she was probably the main cause

of their parents' marriage demise,

and I think she carried that with her.

And went out of her way

to make sure that those kids knew

that they were welcomed and loved in that house.

PRODUCER: This is RG interview, take one. Marker.

My name is Robin Greer,

and I was close friends with Nicole Brown Simpson

over the years.

The first time that I went to the Rockingham house,

Nicole was living in that house,

and she was definitely the lady of the manor.

Rockingham was like

a slightly cleaner version of the Playboy mansion.

And it would be a lot of celebrities

and-and a lot of beautiful girls

and it was sort of the place

to see and be seen,

and everybody wanted to go... go there.

It was, like, really a great invitation.

Rockingham, to me, was like Camelot.

At the time, I thought they were a great couple.

I mean, they seemed like they knew their roles,

and that's what they-- And they liked doing it,

and that was their routine.

And, you know, she was basically just

somebody who, I think, enjoyed running the show

but not being the show.

She let him be the show.

She had her work cut out for her,

trying to be so perfect.

It's a lot of work to keep up an image,

to have to...

make everybody happy all the time.

That's hard.

He's stressing me out. His explanation was,

"Well, I've been away all week.

Yeah, I want 100% of her when I'm home."

-PRODUCER: Yeah. -And that would make her really tense.

Because she was a perfectionist.

She wanted everything to be perfect.

She did tell me that he has a bad temper, which we knew.

DENISE: I was up in Los Angeles with Nicole,

and we all went out to dinner.

We went to a Mexican restaurant,

and we started drinking tequila

and having a good time.

And all of a sudden, we come back to the house...

...and they had this beautiful bar,

and he starts making more margaritas.

And so we keep drinking the margaritas

and drinking the margaritas.

And then at one point,

I had to open up my mouth.

I said, you know, you really do take my sister for granted.

He started screaming at me.

O.J.: (bleep) in the living room.

-They were here. -NICOLE: (sighs) I'm sorry.

(O.J. shouting)

That went to walking from the bar,

going to the staircase,

throwing pictures of our family

down into the foyer.

(O.J. shouting indistinctly)

But this is the first time I ever saw him,

because, you know how people, when they get angry,

they're, they, like, pulsate.

Their, like, everything starts pulsating here and here.

And I just saw that, and I saw, like, glazed-over eyes

where it didn't even look like he was there anymore.

He comes back down the stairs,

and Nicole is standing there.

He grabs her by the throat,

and he puts her up against the kitchen door,

and he's got her this far off the ground.

At one point, she was at the, uh, at a door,

and this is something that Denise spoke about.

And she started knocking my pictures and things down.

KELLY: What pictures was she knocking down?

Whatever pictures that were around.

On the stairway?

Stairway had a table in my entry, uh, armoire

that had a lot of pictures on it.

She just swiped them all off.

KELLY: While you were-- She, you were yelling at one another?

I wasn't yelling.

What was the, uh, disagreement about?

I don't-- I don't, I really don't know.

(O.J. shouting indistinctly)

Nicole is standing there. He grabs her by the throat,

and he puts her up against the kitchen door,

and he... throws her out the door,

and she ends up on her butt

and ends up with bloodied elbows.

And then he throws me out the door.

But I didn't fall down.

Then, nothing was talked about anymore.

Life went on as usual.

We went over to the house.

It wasn't discussed again.

One of our friends w-who is very close with Nicole,

she told me of some really horrible fights

leading up to them getting married.

HOST: This is Elaine Young, who is Jennifer's mother.

She is a realtor to the stars in Los Angeles,

and she sold O.J. that famous house in Brentwood.

Let's talk to Jennifer first. Y-You were you having--

Were you in this restaurant having lunch already?

Yes, well, we were waiting to be seated at a table.

I was walking out of the restaurant

with a guy named Randy England,

but Elaine Young's daughter was walking down,

and we were talking as we walked out,

and we weren't with these people.

He was kind enough to ask us to join him.

I was with a girlfriend of mine.

He was very sweet.

So then did he invite you over?

Um, yeah, in fact, we had lunch with him.

Nicole showed up, and I don't know what Nicole thought,

and she said something very unpleasant to the girl.

KELLY: Did you talk to Nicole after this incident

to find out what it was all about?

-I tried to. -What did she say?

She didn't. That was the incident.

That was the time she moved out.

And went to my friend's and I proposed to her the next day.

She said, "I'm getting married." I said, "Excuse me?"

And she goes, "I want you to be my maid of honor."

And I said, "Okay."

And she goes, "Yes, he's gonna get baptized.

"Everything is gonna change.

He's gonna become a new person"

And that was after seven years of dating.

They dated for seven years.

And Nicole was under this...

illusion that Simpson's gonna get baptized

and he's going to be a different person.

And she really believed that

because so much had already happened seven years prior

before they got married, you know,

as far as, you know, like infidelities

and things like that.

But she wanted to believe it.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed.

Let's just pray to God that, yes,

her fairy-tale wedding

and her fairy-tale life is going to come true.

The image of Nicole has been one of tragedy, even innuendo.

Seeing this wedding video for the first time, we see Nicole,

the real Nicole, as a sweet, lovely, innocent young woman.

Nicole's wedding was held at Rockingham.

Lou and Judi were very happy about the marriage

and very happy at the occasion.

-So pretty, wow. -Look at you.

ARNELLE: She's not like our stepmother, she like a best friend.

JASON: Yeah, like a special friend.

ARNELLE: Yeah, like a best friend.

Because we've known her for so long

and we shared so much with her.

PASTOR: I trust that by the way you value life,

that you will lead Nicole to say,

"Oh, God, I'm a woman most fortunate.

For out of all of this world, O.J. has chosen me."

I don't know if it was a band or DJ, I don't remember that,

but "We are Family" came on.

That-- I think it's Sister Sledge--

and all of us, the entire girls,

and I think my dad, too.

And we just danced around, holding hands,

arms around each other, singing the song "We are Family."

And still, to this day, when I hear that song,

I remember that night.

It was a great wedding.

I'll be-- I'll be good to you.

They got married in February.

Sydney was born in October.

So, Sydney could've been a honeymoon baby.

She could have been a pre-honeymoon baby.

She loved being pregnant, though,

except for she got really heavy.

Yeah, she got really heavy. And he didn't like that.

I think for her it was difficult to be pregnant

only because he was not nice to her

when she was pregnant.

He would always say,

"You've got such a fat ass, why don't you go on a diet?"

She was pregnant.

She was pregnant when he would tell her that,

when he would, he would say things like that,

and she would turn around and she would say,

"I am carrying your baby.

I am carrying your child."

I remember her telling me one time,

she says, you know what? You're so lucky

that you don't have a husband.

You don't have a person telling you what to do.

We were talking about delivering our babies

and she said, "O.J. does not want me to deliver vaginally."

And he did not want her nursing.

I'm like, well, that's sick.

She said he wanted her

to keep the same body that she had.

I can't imagine any wife saying,

"Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have a C-section,

or I'm not gonna nurse because you don't like it."

You can see how that-- those were all control things

that he did with her.

I don't believe that I had this baby.

O.J.: Look at me.

-We got a little girl. -Do I have dopey eyes?

O.J.: Yeah, you seem a little out of it.

Sydney was the first little baby that came into this world.

She has lots of little hair on her forehead.

We actually went to the hospital

when she gave the-- gave birth to the baby.

Everybody was there,

and everybody was very happy for them.

O.J.: Hi, Robin. Say something.

Hi. Congratulations.

I think her dream was coming true.

I love Sydney.

O.J.: But she's doing okay?

-Do you love her? -O.J.: I love her very much.

DOMINIQUE: Nicole decorated Sydney's room. It was beautiful.

She had those bassinets when she was born.

Nicole asked me to be Sydney's godmother.

So when she was christened, I became her godmother.

DOMINIQUE: She was wearing that, like, uh,

-It doesn't work. (laughs) -...faded-out or white...

DOMINIQUE: I think at that point,

she had already seen that

I had a love for her, a special love,

-Mm... -(laughs)

(laughs) Ah...

Like a little cupcake.

Flying Sydney.

Sydney likes the water.

-Big smile. -DOMINIQUE: I love you.

DOMINIQUE: Love you.

Hey, PS, Sydney.

When you watch this tape when you get older,

see that little quilt you're laying on?

Mommy made that for you.

Sydney Brooke is here down at the beach house,

hanging out in the sand with Denise, huh?

They bought the house at Victoria Beach,

and they had the gorgeous house down there.

So we were down there,

of course, as often as we could,

because it was right on the ocean.

DENISE: When she came down to Laguna,

it was like she had a smile on her face.

She turned into the beach girl that she was before.

She seemed to be happy.

I'm, uh, Albert, middle initial A,

Aguilera.

I was a pharmacist for 50 years.

I moved to Blue Lagoon.

Next door was Victoria Beach.

I knew they lived there, but I hadn't seen them.

We walked down to the beach--

it was on a Saturday--

and we saw O.J. Simpson and his-his wife Nicole.

She was facing him, he was facing into the water,

and she was kind of, like, animated in front of O.J.

We're going by, and then, all of a sudden,

he reached out and slapped her.

With one arm, he just knocked her down.

Hit her face and she went down.

We kind of stood for a while and walked a little way--

but we kept looking.

He bent down, trying to console her.

Really, he was trying to stop her from crying,

and she was having none of it.

And he just kept staring out towards the ocean,

didn't look at the people that were in back of him.

They were kind of, like, all surprised.

She seemed to me like sh-- when she was down

and she was crying and saying a few things to him--

i-it was inaudible to us--

that she was more or less hurt that he even did that.

Maybe...

she was as surprised as we were.

I would go to their beach house,

and she'd be fixing dinner and she'd have dogs there

and kids running around and so on.

And he just would come

and it would be like a black cloud all of a sudden.

Uh, so...

I'd hear about them out, you know, during the day.

You know, "Oh, did you hear that they were at lunch at Toscana?

And "she had," you know, "two glasses of wine,

and they were," you know, "making out" or something--

you know, just basically trying to keep,

keep the flame alive kind of thing.

She kept herself in very good shape,

and it was almost like she was competing with herself

as well as others.

I heard about, you know, the... the affair thing.

The Tawny Kitaen.

REPORTER: Her name is Tawny Kitaen,

a beautiful, sexy actress who made her name

as the sizzling star of music videos.

These days, Tawny Kitaen

is most famous for her frequently reported

off-screen relationship with O.J. Simpson.

INTERVIEWER: When did you meet O.J. originally?

TAWNY: I met O.J. in '82. '82, '83.

INTERVIEWER: And he was then with Nicole Brown Simpson?

-TAWNY: Yes, he was. -They were still married?

I think that went on for a while.

That affair.

During that time, Nicole was pregnant with Justin

three months before me, and I was pregnant with my son Aaron.

Judi was aware of his cheating.

Judi told me who these people were.

As Nicole became aware of...

...his cheating,

it disturbed her more and more,

and she found it more and more difficult,

as it would with any woman, of course.

I remember driving around with Nicole,

you know, trying to find, you know, houses that he had

girlfriends put up in and, you know, things like that.

O.J.: We're at the hospital.

I'm so ready to go home.

I was just looking out the window, waiting for you guys.

JUDIE: When she was in the hospital giving birth,

her husband, O.J. Simpson,

had someone in her house.

And there were pictures of Nicole all over,

and he simply put them face down

so that the woman wouldn't see them.

Sick.

-NICOLE: Look. -O.J.: Oh, look. And there's Corby.

♪

(sighs)

Okay.

Going my way?

You're gonna go that way, towards the ocean.

What did Daddy say about one finger?

Daddy said, "One finger in the mouth."

One finger only.

DENISE: Christmas, 1988, my whole family decided

that we wanted to go to Hawaii for Christmas.

Actually, I think it was Nicole

who decided that we, you know,

"Well, come on, let's go to Hawaii."

And I thought, "Why Hawaii?

There's no snow in-in Hawaii." (laughs)

So we went over to Hawaii,

and it was really a great trip until it wasn't.

KELLY: Do you recall any argument

between Nicole and O.J.

during this vacation?

A.C.: It was more of a comment that she made.

We were all sitting in-in a large dining room.

KELLY: Do you know where you were,

-first of all? -At a restaurant.

KELLY: Who was there at the restaurant with you?

A.C.: All of us.

KELLY: Okay, was this for lunch or dinner?

A.C.: I would say lunch.

There was a gay couple

that was sitting at the table,

and they just thought Justin was just beautiful.

One of the guys, he kissed Justin on the forehead...

...and it was, like, so sweet and so nice.

And as soon as we walked outside,

all hell broke loose.

After Nicole had

let the man hold the baby,

she took the baby back.

O.J. supposedly had said,

you know, "Why did you have that gay guy hold my baby?"

Or something like that. And she says,

"Why are you concerned about him being gay?

Your father is gay."

And O.J. got very upset with her.

JAMES: People meet you in the streets

and they always ask you what it is to have a son,

you know, as famous as O.J. and how you feel about it.

And I tell them,

"I just relax and stretch

and break all the buttons off my shirt

and have them sewed on next week."

We're very proud of that.

And he was gonna fly off the island that night.

He was going-- He said, "I'm out of here."

DENISE: "How could you let a gay man kiss my son?"

She ran out of the car. He was going crazy.

She ended up taking off and going with my parents.

I couldn't get out of the car anymore because he was driving

like a lunatic in the parking lot.

And then we ended up going back to the hotel.

As we were going back, I said,

"Slow down."

I said, "Slow down, calm down."

I said, "The guy didn't hurt him."

I said, "It was nothing, it was no big deal."

KELLY: And when was the next time

you spoke to Simpson?

I think we all ended up going out that night.

KELLY: Did you speak to Simpson again

about what had happened that day?

No, I didn't.

Seemed like they were,

you know, they were sitting together.

Seemed like, I guess whatever difference that they had,

they patched it up.

DENISE: The next day,

I saw her with a shirt,

long-sleeve shirt on, and I was like,

"Nicole, it's hot. Why are you...?"

She goes, "Oh, no, I'm just gonna stay in the shade here,

and I'm just gonna stay with Justin."

I knew he was pissed off, but I,

I didn't know anything else that happened

behind closed doors.

I read in her diary afterwards

that he had her up against the wall

over the balcony,

doing the usual...

hurting her because of this incident.

When we left Hawaii,

Nicole was going to a New Year's Eve party.

That's why we left.

D'ANNE: We were supposed to be having our New year's Eve party

and we got a telephone call pretty late at night,

and it was Nicole.

And she said, "We got to drinking down the street

"and so nobody can drive.

So we're just gonna stay here and party here."

"Oh, yeah, no problem. Have a great time.

Happy New Year, la, la." And we hung up.

And then we, of course,

all woke up to New Year's Day with news

that Nicole was at the police station

and he had...

...hit her.

DISPATCHER: 911 emergency.

-(woman screams) -DISPATCHER: Hello.

KELLY: Had you seen Nicole

-New Year's Eve? -Yes, I did.

She collapsed on it and-and started yelling,

"He's gonna kill me, he's gonna kill me."

She said she was frightened you were going to kill her.

No, she did not say that.

The cost of staying with O.J. Simpson

was too great for Nicole.

ROBIN: That's when she told me

she is going to leave O.J.

DOMINIQUE: The thought of her being with anybody else

did not do well with him.

My mom went straight to the phone

and called Nicole.

It was as if she knew

something was gonna happen.

And something did happen.

NEWS REPORTER: Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

were found just after midnight.

NEWS REPORTER 2: ...dead from a knife wound to her throat.

DENISE: He said, "Your sister's been killed."

And I said, "He did it."

And he said, "Who?" (crying)

I said... (sobbing)

I said, "O.J. Simpson."

JUDIE: The police had spoken to us and said, "We're watching him."

ROBIN: We said, "What is going on here?"

D'ANNE: She said, "It's O.J.

He's on the 405 freeway coming down here to us."

Please don't forget the victim.

There was such an insatiable appetite

from the public for details.

Photographs and stories, and on TV.

We did everything we could do

to protect those two kids.

The defense put on this big smear campaign.

RON: She went from being a victim

of domestic violence and murder to being a whore.

FOREWOMAN (over TV): We, the jury,

in the above entitled action find the defendant

not guilty of the crime of murder.

DENISE: How could one person (bleep) up

so many people's lives?

The fact that he is a convicted wife batterer

means that he may present a rik of harm to these children.

PRODUCER: Were you aware

of events in Florida?

There was close to 17 police reports we found.

O.J. Simpson did receive MDMA.

He was a user.

Oh, my God.

DOMINIQUE: Those poor kids have been through a lot.

Who was there to protect them?

How do these children

grow up to be normal

if the person that murdered their mother

is caring for them?

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