O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson’s children are living their lives away from the spotlight and prefer to keep it that way.
More than a month after the former NFL star—who was famously acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman—died at the age of 76 following a private battle with prostate cancer, her sisters provided a rare update on the couple’s children, Sydney Simpson, 38, and Justin Simpson, 35.
“They have their own families,” Dominique Brown told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published on May 29, noting that she stays in close contact with them. “They live normal lives. They want to be left alone and they have children of their own.”
In 2022, Justin Simpson welcomed a daughter with artist Alyssa Browne. Last October, she hinted at how they are honoring his late mother by sharing a photo of a customized baby chair with the name Lana Nicole on Instagram.
Nicole Brown Simpson and Dominique Brown’s sister Denise Brown also called for privacy for her late sister’s children. “They just want to live normal and happy lives,” she told ET. “I think their privacy is important to them.”
Sydney Simpson and Justin Simpson were 8 and 5 years old, respectively, when Nicole Brown, 35, and Goldman, 25, were stabbed to death on June 12, 1994, outside her Los Angeles home while the kids slept inside.
O.J. Simpson, who also had three ch
ildren from his previous marriage to Marguerite Whitley, was found not guilty of the double murder in what the media dubbed the “trial of the century.”As the 30th anniversary of the killings approaches, the Brown sisters are speaking out to share their sister’s story, which they feel was overshadowed by the trial’s spectacle.
This includes the Lifetime docuseries “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson,” which premieres on June 1. Nicole Brown Simpson’s other sister, Tanya Brown, admitted that for her niece and nephew, the upcoming special could be bittersweet.
“I have mixed feelings about it because it’s so good. So many great stories about Mom,” she told ET. “But then they’re going to hear what a horrible dad he was, what a horrible husband, a horrible human being. I don’t know if they have a good or poor perception of him. I’m not really in touch with them, but I think it would hurt me if they had such a great relationship with Dad and then saw this and saw a totally different person.”