The sisters of Nicole Brown Simpson hope a new documentary on her life will explore how she lived, and not just how she died.
This undated image released by Lifetime shows a photo of Nicole Brown Simpson, subject of the documentary The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson," airing Saturday on Lifetime. 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., Nicole’s three sisters want her remembered for more than those static images or the violent way she died.
“Nicole was a very, very good hider of her domestic violence. She pushed everything under the rug and then would change the subject. And I think that was just all to protect herself and to protect everyone that she loved and her family,” Dominique Brown told the AP in a recent interview with her sisters.
They had met in Germany, then built an affluent life for their girls in southern California. Nicole, a homecoming princess, was interested in photography. She enrolled in community college, butA childhood friend, David LeBon, remembers Nicole coming home from their first date in a Rolls Royce, with the zipper of her pants ripped. He wanted to confront Simpson.as an actor and TV pitchman.
“He had turned her into the perfect wife, and that’s what he expected of her,” Resnick says in the film.“The family saw some of this stuff, but they didn’t have a name for it,” said Patti Giggans, a nonprofit director in Los Angeles who has worked on domestic violence since the 1970s, and spoke frequently on it during Simpson's trial. “They were pretty helpless.”Nicole herself called a helpline five days before she was killed, as Simpson’s stalking intensified.
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