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How and where to watch ‘The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson’: dates, episodes...
A new, four-part Lifetime docuseries tells the life story of O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, who was murdered in June 1994.
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, a new documentary chronicles the life of O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife - and looks back at her gruesome death and what came next.
A four-part series, The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson premieres on Lifetime today. It features interviews with dozens of people who knew Brown Simpson, chiefly her three sisters Denise, Dominique and Tanya.
O.J. acquitted of murder, but found liable in civil suit
On 12 June 1994, Brown Simpson and Goldman were stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home, in an attack so brutal that she was almost decapitated.
Simpson, whose marriage to Brown Simpson had ended two years earlier, was charged and tried for the murders, but was acquitted in October 1995, following a high-profile, 11-month court case dubbed ‘the trial of the century’. In 1997, however, he was found liable for Brown Simpson and Goldman’s deaths in a civil suit brought by the victims’ families.
Simpson, who later spent nearly nine years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery in 2008, died of cancer in April, at the age of 76.
Lifetime doc to allow Nicole’s “voice to be heard”
“This documentary provides an opportunity for Nicole’s own narrative and voice to be heard in one of the most notorious crimes and trials in history,” reads Lifetime’s synopsis of the series. “The project features 50 participants, including those who knew Nicole the best - her friends and family - to shed new light on her life and tragic death. With unprecedented access to exclusive home videos and interviews, the documentary reveals shocking new details in the tragic story.”
Part of Lifetime’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign, The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson discusses the domestic abuse she suffered at Simpson’s hands during their relationship, having first met the NFL player-turned-actor in Beverly Hills in 1977. In 1989, four years after they got married, he pleaded no contest to a charge of spousal battery.
Denise Brown, who is now a prominent public speaker on domestic abuse, told the Hollywood Reporter: “There’s a whole new generation to educate when it comes to the issues of domestic violence and things that happened to Nicole.”
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How to watch The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson
Billed as a “two-night documentary event”, The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is to be broadcast in its entirety this weekend and early on Monday morning.
According to Lifetime’s official schedule, episode one airs for the first time at 8pm ET today, Saturday 1 June. It will then be broadcast again at 10pm and midnight, and at 2am, 12 noon and 6pm tomorrow, Sunday 2 June.
Episode two goes out at 1am on Sunday, before being re-broadcast at 3am and 1pm. Episode three premieres at 8pm on Sunday, before being shown again that night at 10pm and midnight, and at 2am on the morning of Monday 3 June. Finally, episode four airs at 1am and 3am on Monday. If you don’t have cable, you can stream Lifetime on online platforms such as DirecTV and Sling.