In the familiar images that circulated after her June 1994 death, Nicole Brown Simpson appears frozen in place. She's a statuesque blonde with a tense smile, silently escorting famous husband O.J.
Simpson. She's the breezy California beauty behind the wheel of her white Ferrari. And she's the somber woman, with telling bruises and a black eye, in the stark Polaroids locked away in a bank vault.
Thirty years later, Nicole's three sisters want her remembered for more than those static images or the violent way she died. They fear the vibrant person they knew has been lost in the chaos of Simpson's murder trial, the questions it raised about race in America and the headlines spawned by his recent death. "It's seeing her move.
It's hearing her talk, seeing her," youngest sister Tanya Brown said of the joy she felt watching video clips of Nicole in a new Lifetime documentary. "(She's) someone who just was very warm, very warmhearted and quirky." "Daddy's taking movies again," coos Nicole, who met Simpson when she was 18, as she cuddles her infant child on the beach.
The home movie included in "The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson," which aired over the weekend, echoes one of her as a child with her own mother. The two part documentary is available to stream on the Lifetime app or can be purchased or rented online at Apple TV and Prime Video. "She wanted to be like her mother," said Melissa G.
Moore, the executive producer. "Nicole wanted to be home, being a mother and creatin.
