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February 23, 2016 11:00 p.m.
The Most Stomach-Churning, Bizarre Details From Faye Resnick s 1994 Book, Nicole B
rown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted
By E. Alex Jung
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Faye Resnick during Celebrity Halloween Event at Home of Susie Field for the Chi
ldren of LA Childrens Hospital at Private House in Beverly Hills, California, Un
ited States. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage) Photo: SGranitz/WireImages
Less than four months after the grisly murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron G
oldman, one of Nicole's friends, Faye Resnick, wrote a book brazenly titled Nico
le Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted. She co-wrote the book
with National Enquirer gossip writer Mike Walker, and it's both tawdry and trag
ic in its timing and content. Just a month after its publication, Resnick said,
"Every time I read the book I almost cry, because I sound like a major airhead."
In a way though, Resnick was simply ahead of the game: She received a $60,000 a
dvance for the book, which was the first of many published about the murders and
trial of the century.
As detailed in Tuesday night's episode of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American C
rime Story, the book ultimately made Resnick (played by Connie Britton) persona
non grata for the trial, forcing Judge Lance Ito to halt jury selection to read
the book and weigh its possible impact, and ultimately forcing the prosecution n
ot to call Resnick to the witness stand even though she could have testified to
how O.J. Simpson had threatened Nicole's life.
So just how salacious was Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Inte

rrupted? The book narrowly focuses on the four years when Resnick knew Brown and
zeroes in on Nicole's sex life and Simpson's temper and abusive behavior. There
are contradictions throughout, such as when Resnick chastises the media's slutshaming of Nicole while breathlessly relaying her friend's sexual proclivities.
It's a difficult book to read, even after over 20 years have passed, because as
gossipy and unseemly as it appears, there is the sense that there's some truth t
o it.
Resnick explains how Nicole inspired the "Brentwood Hello."
One of the scenes from The People v. O.J. Simpson shows Britton meeting with the
publisher and gushing over the "Brentwood Hello." It refers to a specific incid
ent when, after her divorce, Nicole had drinks at her neighbor's house where she
gave a man, who was engaged to another woman, "the blow-job of his life."
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Resnick really likes material things.
As much as this is a book about Nicole Brown Simpson and O.J. Simpson, it is als
o really a book about how much Faye Resnick likes stuff. In addition to cocaine
and Valium, Resnick is pretty fond of lunches at Toscana, shopping on Rodeo Driv
e, hair and manicure appointments, and nights at the Roxbury. Her pice de rsistanc
e, though, is her home, the former residence of Disney chair Michael Eisner, whi
ch she spent $1.3 million renovating, requiring her designer Warren Sheets to "l
iterally [live] and [travel]" with her for over a year to "design a home unique
to [her]." She describes the interior as done in black and gold with Roman, Egyp
tian, and "oriental" flourishes. Given that Resnick was reportedly broke upon Ni
cole's death, it isn't hard to see why she wrote the book.
There are celebrity cameos from Donald Trump to Prince.
What's a vulgar tell-all without an appearance from Donald Trump? She describes
seeing the Donald at a party in Aspen with an "incredibly big-busted bimbo." The
re's the time she had dinner with Vanna White. The other time Arsenio Hall told
O.J. Simpson, "Don't mess it up now by getting drunk," referring to his reconcil
iation with Nicole. Prince was also at the bar, but Resnick couldn't see him: "T
he booth was entirely blocked by four burly body guards standing in front of it.
" That seems as it should be.
Resnick and Nicole hooked up.
Resnick says that after a night of dancing, Nicole came over to her place where
she lit candles and they did tequila shots. Then they started kissing, and Resni
ck writes that what happened was "more a spiritual bonding than anything else."
She says that it didn't happen again, and that their friendship continued on smo
othly afterwards. Just to be clear though, Resnick writes, "Neither Nicole nor I
were or ever could be gay. I respect those that chose to be gay. That's their w
ay of life, and I don't question it. But it's not for me."
She writes about Nicole's love of black men.
Another one of Nicole's affairs was with Marcus Allen, an NFL player who was mov
ing from the L.A. Raiders to the Kansas City Chiefs at the time. He also happene
d to be O.J.'s second best friend (A.C. Cowlings was number one). Allen was enga
ged at the time they started their affair, and Resnick says that according to Ni
cole, he was one of the few men who could satisfy her sexually other than Simpso
n. Resnick writes:
When I confronted her about [her desire for
weren't the first men in my life, but what the
e or a gherkin compared to what I'm used to ...
ng. A.C. was always saying that O.J. had molded

black men], [Nicole] said, "They

others had was like a mini-pickl
We'll have to see what comes alo
me sexually so that nobody else

could ever take his place. Let's hope he was wrong."

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She clearly enjoys her own role as intermediary between O.J. and Nicole
One of the difficult things to read throughout the book is that as the fighting
between O.J. and Nicole escalates, Resnick increasingly takes a central role in
their mediation. Perhaps it's a result of the writer's delusion to her own centr
ality in the narrative, but it's not difficult to sense that she relishes her ro
le as intermediary for the feuding couple. Resnick writes, "O.J. knew I was the
best pipeline into her heart, her mind, and her soul," referring to Nicole. Ther
e are multiple phone calls where Resnick is talking to Nicole, only to have O.J.
call her on the other line. In one instance, she writes:
"I can't take this, Faye, I can't take this. I mean it. I'll kill that bitch
."
"O.J., hold on ... "
I punched the other line. "Nicole, O.J.'s on the other line; I'll call you b
ack."
The stories of abuse are horrifying.
According to Resnick, Nicole said that the worst beating she endured from O.J. S
impson was the time when she learned, and confronted, her ex-husband about his a
ffair with Tawny Kitaen. She said he savagely beat her and locked her in the clo
set. He would then watch television, only to occasionally come back and beat her
.
She gives Nicole bad advice.
One of the troubling instances in the interactions between Resnick and Nicole is
that even as the friend points out how O.J. is manipulating her, she also parti
cipates in the manipulation. That is, she tells Nicole that "O.J. always control
s everyone and everything around him," but even then, Resnick participates in th
e same kind of game-playing. She postpones her boyfriend Christian Reichardt's b
irthday party at the behest of O.J. so that he can attend. Then she tells Nicole
, "Every time he calls me, he sounds obsessed and crazy. Please, don't break up
with him until after the party."
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