Nicole Brown Simpson

Nicole Brown Simpson was born in West Germany and worked as a waitress in a Beverly Hills nightclub, The Daisy, where she met OJ Simpson the football player, when she was just 18; he was 30. They dated for a year and began living together when she was 19. The couple married in February 2, 1985.

In 1992, they divorced and she won a $433,000 cash settlement and $10,000 monthly child support. According to her sister, Denise Brown, Nicole broke up with OJ Simpson a week and a half before she died. She also tried to lease her $625,000 townhouse just five months after buying it. They had two children together, Sydney Brooke Simpson who was born on October 17 1985 and Justin Ryan Simpson born August 6 1988.

Sadly, she is best known as a murder victim. She and a casual friend, Ronald Goldman, were found murdered at her Brentwood condominium, just outside her front door. Ronald Goldman, a waiter at a nearby restaurant, was returning eyeglasses that she had accidentally left there at dinner that night. He is considered an accidental victim of the murderer.

A tall, beautiful blonde, she became homecoming queen of her high school. In a highly televised and controversial "Trial of the Century," running from December 1994 to October 1995, OJ Simpson was acquitted of the murders after it was found that a police investigator, Detective Mark Fuhrman, had lied on the witness stand.

To represent OJ at his trial he brought together what was considered to be 'The Dream Team' of defense attorneys led by big-name lawyers Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, F Lee Bailey and Alan Dershowitz and was presided over by Judge Lance Allan Ito.

Later in a civil court case which concluded in February 1997, brought by Ronald Goldman's father, OJ Simpson was found guilty for wrongful death and ordered to pay $8.5 million dollars to the Goldman family.