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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Emine Saner

My sister Nicole married OJ Simpson. This is what I wish I had known

Portrait of Denise Brown, with long silver hair
‘I told her so many times to leave him’ … Denise at her home in Florida, US. Photograph: Mikaela Martin/The Guardian

The last night Denise Brown spent with her sister Nicole Brown Simpson was at a restaurant for a family celebration. Nicole looked out of the window. “All of a sudden she goes, ‘Oh my God, there he is.’ He was driving by.” Brown looked out, trying to get a glimpse of her sister’s ex-husband, the former American football star OJ Simpson. “I saw these headlights. She said, ‘He’s constantly following me.’” They went back to talking about their plans for the summer.

The following morning, 13 June 1994, Brown was up early at her parents’ house in Orange County in southern California, when the phone rang shortly after 6am. “I heard my mom scream a scream that I had never heard from a human being,” says Brown. “It was so guttural. Just awful.”

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