Nicole Brown Simpson Lifetime Doc Gets Premiere Date and Trailer: “Her Life Was Stolen From Her”

Jackie Strause
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“It’s been 30 years. Maybe it’s time to rekindle the flame of Nicole.”

Lifetime has officially announced its forthcoming docuseries on Nicole Brown Simpson, timed to the 30-year anniversary of her death. Titled The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and billed as an explosive two-night event, the four-part series will premiere June 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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Lifetime has released a trailer for the docuseries (below), which features her three sisters — Denise, Dominique and Tanya Brown — speaking about Nicole, the ex-wife of O.J. Simpson who was found murdered in 1994 outside her Brentwood condominium. Nicole and Simpson were married for seven years and shared two children, Sydney and Justin. Simpson was famously accused and acquitted of her murder, as well as the murder of Ron Goldman. The fallen football star was later found liable for both of their deaths in a 1997 civil lawsuit.

Simpson died April 10 from metastatic prostate cancer.

As The Hollywood Reporter previously reported, despite the timing of the docuseries announcement coming so soon after Simpson’s death, The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson has been in the works for more than a year.

The 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,” says Lifetime of the project, which features 50 participants of those who knew Nicole the best and unprecedented access to exclusive home videos and interviews.

The network says the docuseries will reveal “shocking new details in the tragic story” and will “shed new light” on her life and death, as Nicole’s sisters and closest friends “come forward for the first time to share her truth.”

“What happened to our sister Nicole should never have happened to her or to any other woman,” say the Brown sisters in a statement. “Her life was stolen from her and while her abuser is finally gone, it doesn’t take away the anguish we feel or the pain of her children who lost their mother. We hope that by sharing Nicole’s story, it will help others recognize the signs and get the help they need and her legacy will continue to live on.”

In the trailer, her sisters grow emotional as they recall how “she always thought he was going to hurt her” and that “the one thing I could not protect her from was the monster she was married to.” The first look mentions Nicole keeping a diary, described as “essentially a list of abuse by Simpson,” and zeroes in on concern over the children being left in Simpson’s care following their mother’s death.

The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions for Lifetime and hails from the teams behind Lifetime’s acclaimed documentaries, with Jesse Daniels (Surviving R. Kelly), Melissa Moore (The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard), Rit Saraswat (Surviving R. Kelly: Part II), Brie Miranda Bryant (Where is Wendy Williams?, Janet Jackson, Surviving R. Kelly), Kim Chessler (Dance Moms) and Julie Pizzi (Vanderpump Villa) as executive producers.

The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is part of Lifetime’s Stop Violence Against Women initiative and in collaboration with the National Domestic Abuse Hotline. Lifetime is also producing new PSAs, one featuring Denise and Tanya Brown, and another featuring Jana Kramer, a survivor of domestic abuse and the star of Lifetime’s Gaslit By My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story, which debuts the following week.

Lifetime Television is part of A+E Networks, a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corporation. A+E Networks has worldwide distribution rights.

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