Who are Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters?
It’s been 30 years since Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered. Her sisters are featured in a new documentary detailing her life and tragic end.
The brutal murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman captured the world’s attention in 1994 not least because her ex-husband and former NFL star OJ Simpson was the prime suspect and charged with the double homicide. He was acquitted of the crime in a televised trial dubbed the “Trial of the Century” with around 150 million people tuning in for the verdict.
He was later found liable for the deaths of Nicole and Goldman in a unanimous decision by a jury in a civil lawsuit brought by the families of the murdered victims. He was ordered to pay them $33.5 million of which he still owed a significant amount when he died recently. OJ passed away in April suddenly from cancer at age 76, just months shy of the 30th anniversary of that fateful night and the release of a new documentary about his ex-wife.
On Saturday 1 June, Lifetime will debut the first of a four-part series ‘The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson’ which will feature interviews with dozens of people who knew her. Principally among them are Nicole’s three sisters Denise, Dominique and Tanya.
Who are Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters?
The documentary is part of Lifetime’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign, a cause that Denise and Tanya have been active in since Nicole’s death.
Denise, now 66, is the eldest of the sisters. She was very close to Nicole, who was two years younger, calling her “my best friend” in a trailer for the docuseries. Both began their careers as fashion models but after Nicole’s murder Denise became a public speaker crusading against domestic violence.
She even took her cause to Congress testifying to lawmakers shortly after her sister’s death urging them to pass the Violence Against Women Act. It passed and President Bill Clinton signed it into law in September 1994.
Tanya, the youngest of the sisters, as well became a champion in the fight against domestic abuse through public speaking. The trauma of “living through a global criminal case” caused her to “develop unhealthy coping mechanisms” which led her to attempt suicide in 2004. “It’s not that I wanted to die, I just wanted the pain to stop,” she states on her bio on her website.
While she recovered in hospital, she learned the tools of self-care and how to manage her thoughts which she uses in her current profession. She is now a life coach helping people deal with their own trauma and has authored two books, ‘Finding Peace amid the Chaos’ and ‘The Seven Characters of Abuse’.
Dominique, who is now 59, has maintained a more private profile. For the sake of Nicole’s and OJ’s two children, with whom she says she keeps close contact, she has never said publicly whether she believes it was their father who killed their mother.