Chances are you know who Nicole Brown Simpson is — but you don’t know Nicole Brown Simpson, her sisters Denise, Tanya and Dominique Brown say. That’s why Denise Brown, her older sister, is “excited” for the documentary “The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson” to air on Lifetime June 1 and 2. Featuring archival footage and words from Brown Simpson herself, the four-part documentary is, according to her sisters, the first work that “humanizes” her.
Brown Simpson was fatally stabbed on June 12, 1994 , alongside her friend Ronald Goldman, outside her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. She was 35 years old and left behind two children . What followed was a media spectacle that had her ex-husband, NFL star O.
J. Simpson, at its center. Simpson was charged with Brown Simpson and Goldman’s murders and attempted to evade arrest on June 17, 1994, leading officers on a car chase throughout Southern California .
Jurors acquitted Simpson of the murder charges on Oct. 3, 1995, following a nine-month trial. He was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial two years later.
He later served prison time for an unrelated crime and died of cancer in April 2024. But “The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson” is just as interested in the prelude to Brown Simpson’s murder as the aftermath. What led up to that tragic evening 30 years ago? The documentary makes the case that, behind their exterior as a glamorous couple, Brown Simpson and Simpson’s marriage was marked b.
