O.J.
Simpson
met
Nicole
Brown
in
1977
and
divorced
his
first
wife,
Marguerite,
in
1979. He married
Nicole
on
Feb.
2,
1985;
their
daughter
Sydney
was
born
eight
months
later,
and
son Justin
was
born
in
1988.
“You
guys
never
do
anything,”
Nicole
told
police
when
they
arrived
at
the
Simpson
home
at
360
N.
Rockingham
Ave.
in
L.A.’s
posh
Brentwood
neighborhood,
responding
to
a
domestic
abuse
call
in
the
the
early
morning
hours
of
Jan.
1,
1989,
according
to reports
about
that
night. “You
never
do
anything.
You
come
out.
You’ve
been
here
eight
times.
And
you
never
do
anything
about
him.”
Simpson
insisted
he
didn’t
beat
Nicole,
only
pushed
her
out
of
bed.
Then,
told
he
needed
to
go
with
the
officers
to
the
police
station,
he
drove
off
instead.
A
few
days
later,
Nicole
went
to
the
station
and
said
she
didn’t
really
want
them
to
proceed
with
a
prosecution,
but
she
consented
to
out-of-court
mediation.
On
May
24,
1989,
Simpson
was
sentenced
to
24
months
of
probation,
ordered
to
perform
120
hours
of
community
service
and
pay
fines
totaling
$470,
and
was
told
to
attend
counseling
twice
a
week
(he
was
allowed
to
do
it
by
phone)
after
pleading
no
contest
to
misdemeanor
domestic
violence.
Nicole
eventually
moved
out
with
Justin
and
Sydney
and
filed
for
divorce
in
February
1992.
They
settled
that
October,
with
O.J.
agreeing
to
pay
her
a
lump
sum
of
$433,750,
plus
$10,000
a
month
in
child
support,
and
she
retained
the
title
of
a
rental
property.
She
eventually
bought
a
condo
at
875
S.
Bundy
Drive
in
Brentwood
and
moved
there
in
January
1994.
All
the
while,
Simpson
was
alternately
threatening
her
and
trying
to
get
back
together.
According
to
prosecutors
and
witnesses,
O.J.
had
stood
outside
and looked
through
her
window
on multiple
occasions,
including
one
time
when
she
was
having sex
with
a
boyfriend.
Per
Jeffrey
Toobin‘s
1996
book The
Run
of
His
Life,
in
a
diary
entry
from
June
3,
1994,
Nicole detailed
a
recent
threat
from
Simpson: “‘You
hang
up
on
me
last
nite,
you’re
gonna
pay
for
this
bitch…You
think
you
can
do
any
f–king
thing
you
want,
you’ve
got
it
comming
[sic]…”
and
so
on.
She
called
a
battered
women’s
shelter
in
Santa
Monica
on
June
7,
1994,
to
lament
that
her
ex
was
stalking
her.
Five
days
later
she
was
dead.
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