What happened to Nicole Brown Simpson’s and OJ’s kids?
Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters recently shared what life was like for their sister’s and OJ’s kids after their mother’s murder and their lives now.
It’s been 30 years since Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally murdered. Her ex-husband, OJ Simpson, was the prime suspect and criminally charged. However, he was found innocent but a civil jury unanimously found him liable for the deaths of Nicole and Goldman.
Ahead of the debut of a Lifetime documentary, ‘The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson’, ET’s Rachel Smith sat down with Nicole’s sisters for an exclusive interview. Denise, Dominique and Tanya shared what life was like for the children of Nicole and OJ after their mother’s murder through the media circus and “Trial of the Century” as well as what they are up to these days.
What happened to Nicole Brown Simpson’s and OJ’s kids?
Sydney and Justin were just 8 and 5 years old when their mother and her friend Ron were stabbed to death downstairs from where they were sleeping. Nicole’s family sprung into action to shield the children from the media freenzy that ensued and maintain as much of a semblance of normality as possible. The community around them came to their aid as well.
“Fortunately we lived in a community and kind of created a bubble around the kids,” Dominique said. Their neighborhood Safeway supermarket took the step of eliminating the gossip magazines completely from the shelves.
At home, all of the TVs were hooked up to VCRs so the kids wouldn’t see news coverage of the murders or impromtu events like the infamous white Ford Bronco chase with OJ inside down the Los Angeles freeways. They still had to contend with the film crews staking out the house and news helicopters hovering above. But that they dealt with by eating together and doing family actvities like playing games.
Thirty years later and Sydney and Justin are grown up now with families of their own. They have tried to keep a low profile and hope it stays that way into the future. “They live normal lives. They want to be left alone and they have children of their own,” said Dominique. “Please leave them alone,” pleaded Denise in the interview.
“They just want to live normal lives and happy lives,” Denise explained. “They don’t have both parents. It’s hard for them. And I think their privacy is important to them.”
Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters unsure if her kids will watch the documentary
OJ passed away suddenly in April at 76 after struggling with cancer. The sisters are unsure if their neice and nephew will watch the Lifetime documentary but Tanya expressed “mixed feelings” about them doing so.
On the one hand there are “so many great stories about Mom,” Tanya said. On the other, “they’re going to hear what a terrible dad he was, what a horrible husband, a horrible human being.”
She worried that they might see their father in a different light and “see a totally different person” than the one they knew. In the event they don’t want to see the dark side of their father, Lifetime prepared a collection of Nicole’s best moments especially for Sydney and Justin to enjoy.