O.J.'s Statement (Miscellaneous)
THE INTERVIEW:
THE BLOOD EVIDENCE: O. J. said he did not believe that was his blood, and if it was it was not deposited there that night. He had spent a lot of time at Nicole's house, visiting and sleeping there, and he kept his dog there. He had gone there the previous week to get the dog. O. J. questioned why the least experienced person was assigned to collect the blood evidence, and Ms. Mazzola's change in testimony from having put her initials on the bindles (as a normal practice), to saying "maybe" she did not initial the bindles in this case. He maintains that the prosecution got Mazzola to change that wording from she "had" to "maybe." He also noted this did not even make the news reports. O. J. said if the blood was the key the case, why did the LAPD use the most inexperienced people they had to collect it [Andrea Mazzola]. He also said that the most contradictory testimony in this case where witnesses did a complete 180 degrees in their testimony was all the LAPD blood collection people.
BLOOD AT ROCKINGHAM AND IN THE BRONCO. He stated if in fact it was his blood, he lives at 360 Rockingham, indicating there is nothing unusual about that. And it was not deposited there after being at Nicole's that night because he was not at Nicole's house that night. He pointed out that experienced criminalists supposedly missed blood in the Bronco and months later they then find the victims' blood. He also pointed out the blood drop on the steering wheel that was a Number 4 allele, which didn't match Ron, Nicole, or himself, which could be exculpatory. He also questioned how he could go out to his car before leaving that night, open the door, go in the Bronco, while Kato and Alan Park were there, and the next day there were no fingerprints on the door handle. He suggested the fingerprints were wiped off after "somebody" opened the Bronco and didn't want their fingerprints on it and erased it. He said there is no way Mark Fuhrman could have seen the drops he reported on the running board of the Bronco unless the door was open (Fuhrman claims he never opened the door).
THE HAIR: O. J. said it is not correct to say it's his hair. It is "similar to" his hair. And there were hairs not consistent with his. He said if you take ten black guys, you'll find it was also consistent with their hair.
THE SIZE 12 BRUNO MAGLI SHOES: He has about 40 pair of shoes in his closet, sizes from 10 1/2 to 13. The FBI focused on size 12s, and did an exhaustive search on Bruno Magli shoes. They went to every outlet that sold them and not one person ever said they ever sold O. J. those shoes. The FBI did not tell us who did buy Bruno Magli shoes in L.A.
THE GLOVES: O. J. doesn't know if Nicole ever bought him a pair of gloves. She was in charge of buying Christmas presents for various people (O. J. bought them for his son and his closest friends: A. C. Cowlings, Marcus Allen, and several others). One of their friends Tom McCollum, contacted the prosecution and sent them two pairs of gloves that Nicole had given him at Christmas in 1993. The interviewer said, "You had them on in the photos." O. J. answered that he had on gloves that "look similar" to those gloves, but if you look at pictures of him on the sidelines you will see him wearing numerous different gloves of different colors. He doesn't know where any of the clothes he wore at that time are now. Every six months, when he would leave Los Angeles to go to New York for the football season, he would give away 90 percent of his clothes, and then when he returned to Los Angeles after the season, he again gave away 90 percent of clothes. His doorman in New York and his household staff can and have verified this. The police found one single glove in his closet, he doesn't know where the mate to that one is either.
THE PERSON ALAN PARK SAW ENTER THE HOUSE: O. J. said Marcia Clark tried to mislead people about the facts in this case and the "pundits" helped out. Alan Park never said he saw anybody "walking across the driveway." He said he saw someone right outside the front door of O. J.'s house, and he put an "X" there on an exhibit so there could be no mistaking it. What Marcia said and what was reported in the media many times was untrue. O. J. did walk out the door right to the point where Park put an "X" on the exhibit, and dropped some luggage. He took his golf bags off the bench and dropped them there as well. He signaled the limousine driver that he thought was his usual driver, Dale St. John. When Kato let Park in, he drove up and stopped right where those bags were sitting, which is right where the "X" is. After dropping the luggage there, O. J. turned around and went back upstairs, finished up putting clothes in his bag, put on a shirt, and came right back downstairs. This took him not much more than two minutes.
ABOUT TELLING PARK HE OVERSLEPT: O. J. said he never ever, ever told Alan Park that he had overslept. O. J. said that Alan Park was trying to be honest, but he got this mixed up. Instead, when O. J. came out the door, Kato said to O. J., "Did you oversleep?" and Alan Park heard this and later on somehow attributed it to O. J.. In fact, O. J. has seen in one report where Kato said to Alan Park when he first saw him, "He must have overslept." So Alan Park has this confused, or he just assumed O. J. overslept. O. J. said the main reason he went to McDonald's instead of just having a bowl of cereal was that he was trying to stay awake. On the way back, Kato said, "Maybe you can take a nap." He told Kato that he didn't have time to take a nap and didn't want to take a nap because he was getting on a "red-eye" flight. The last thing he wanted to do was sleep because he hoped to be able to sleep on the flight.
THE "DARK" BAG: O. J. said Kato said, "There's a bag over there" and he said he would get it, because he was going out to the Bronco anyway and he was going to walk right by it. He went out to the Bronco, got the "guts" to his mobile phone out, walked back in the gate, and picked up the bag and went back to the limousine. There were actually two bags, there was also a white one with golf balls in it that Kato never mentioned. O. J. asked Alan Park to get his golf bag out, but Kato was talking about needing a flashlight, so O. J. told him to look in the kitchen. O. J. went in the front door and dropped the white bag with the golf balls by the front door. He said if you look in some of the pictures that were taken, you'll see that white bag, which had "usable" golf balls in it.
BREAKING UP WITH PAULA: O. J. says he heard about Paula breaking up with him that day after he was in jail. It came up one time when Paula was visiting him. He says he just never retrieved the message. Apparently this was not an uncommon occurrence with Paula. She had also gotten mad at O. J. in Palm Springs not long before because he plays golf everyday instead of spending time with her. She "split up" with him then too, but then he went home and saw her again, and they went on with their lives.
ABUSE: O. J. said he is totally proud of his relationship with Nicole. There were certain incidents in that relationship he wishes had not happened. But their house was always full of friends, and they had a loving home and relationship. Their friends must have thought so because they always wanted to be around O. J. and Nicole, even when they went on trips. O. J. said Nicole was a very strong person who did not take any crap from anybody. Not from O. J., or the household staff. She would tell O. J. off publicly in front of nannies, people who were staying there, whoever. The prosecution didn't use those people as witnesses because that was not the image of O. J. they wanted. Denise Brown testified to abuse, but she was rarely around, maybe every six months or so at some family function, but not otherwise. Nicole did not bring Denise around her friends, even when she and O. J. were "split." O. J. said he was the most investigated person, and "they" offered $2,000 to anybody who had ever seen him be violent with Nicole or abusive to women, people he had dated, and not one person came forward. Denise was the only person that had seen him and Nicole fight.
THE 1989 INCIDENT: In 1989, O. J. locked Nicole out of the bedroom. She was mad at him about something and when she left the room, O. J. locked the door. Nicole got a key and came back in. He then physically removed her from the room, and they struggled. She had superficial bruises. O. J. says if he were to punch somebody, they would look like he had punched them. O. J. said this was a front page story at the time and he made no excuses; it was not swept under the carpet. He went to court, took responsibility and pled no contest. He was given community service time; the judge then gave him more time. He also saw a therapist both alone and with Nicole. He still sees that therapist from time to time. O. J. said that battery is not a one-way street. Just because it doesn't hurt when somebody hits you or abuses you verbally, as when Nicole did these things to him, doesn't mean it's not battery. He indicated that Nicole was a very "confrontational" type person, and had run-ins with neighbors and household staff as well as with him.
THE 911 CALL IN 1993: O. J. said if you listen carefully to that tape you know that nothing physical took place. He does not apologize for that incident. Nicole was yelling at him and he left her house and went home to avoid a fight. She called him at home and said they had agreed to talk things back, so he went back over there. She was yelling at him outside, and then turned and went in the house. O. J. followed her and kicked the door (it was already broken). Kato arrived. Nicole went upstairs, O. J. went upstairs and knocked, then back downstairs, venting (yelling) to Kato. He did not know Nicole had called 911. The operator told her to stay in the bedroom, but Nicole said she didn't want to stay there. She went downstairs, she was not afraid. When the police came, they surreptitiously taped the conversation with Nicole and O. J. [this was played later at the civil trial]. O. J. said if you listen to that tape, you hear Nicole say the door was broken already, and when the cop asked if she thought O. J. was going to hit her, she said "No." She also said O. J. hadn't hit her since 1989. When it was all over, O. J. left, and Nicole called him the next day and apologized.
STALKING: When they were separated, O. J. said he and Nicole lived in the same neighborhood, they liked the same places and the same restaurants. In one and a half years, they showed up at the same restaurant twice. One time, he was having dinner with a friend at Mezzaluna; they went in and Nicole was there. She came over and kissed him and invited him over (Keith was there and O. J. didn't know him). O. J. bought them drinks, they bought O. J. drinks. Nicole and Cora Fischman were going dancing and invited O. J. to go. He went and then went to Nicole's home that night. The other time was at a restaurant named Tryst. He went there to join a party that was already there before Nicole's party showed up. These incidents were not "stalking." At that time, O. J. and Nicole were having dinner together about three times a week. She slept at his house, and he slept at her house. She didn't have a boyfriend, and O. J. didn't have a girlfriend. O. J. went by her house after going to a dance. As he approached her front door he could see the front window was open and he could see her head. He saw "what was happening" [Nicole with Keith]. He didn't try to stop them; he rang the bell as he left so they would be aware they were in the open. The next day, he spoke to Nicole's mother and went by and talked to Nicole. Keith was there, and he told O. J. "You're right, it was wrong [doing that with the kids there]." O. J. shook his hand. O. J. said there was nothing romantic between Nicole and Keith; they were friends, but they had been drinking. That is the so-called "stalking" incident misrepresented by the prosecution and the media.
CONSPIRACY BY LAPD?: O. J. said he does not "claim" there was a conspiracy, and does not "claim" he is innocent--he IS innocent. He believes the LAPD went out of their way to make him look guilty, starting with Gil Garcetti releasing the 911 tape to the media. He believes Marcia Clark misrepresented evidence and tried to intimidate witnesses into saying incorrect things [like Cora Fischman]. O. J. liked Tom Lange, "the best of a bad lot."
LACK OF ALIBI: O. J. said he was a 46-year-old single man living alone; he rarely saw Kato around. He goes to bed at 8:00 or 8:30 p.m. because he gets up early every day to play golf (4:30 - 5:00 a.m.). When he is at 360 Rockingham, in his bedroom he is "at home"; since when does a man have to be accountable for when he is at home in his bedroom? He answered all the police questions about where he was. He also said that in the six months Kato lived there, Kato never knew where O. J. was or what he was doing, and only saw O. J. maybe twice after 8:00 p.m.
[Also see below: "O. J.'s "Alibi."]
WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO: O. J. knows exactly what the detective said who called him from Los Angeles and told him Nicole was dead. He said she was murdered, or killed, that the kids were okay and that they couldn't tell him anything because they were trying to find out what happened. That's all they ever told him. They called him, then he went in the bathroom and broke a glass. He was trying to use a face towel to push the broken glass into the sink and he cut himself. He signed autographs on the plane, at the airport and in the hotel lobby in Chicago, and nobody ever reported seeing any bandages on his hand.
THE SUICIDE NOTE: O. J. said he wasn't "running" in the Bronco chase. If he wanted to run, he had enough time to get $50K and do that. He knew that morning he was going to be arrested, so he gave the money to A. C. for Arnelle and Jason in case they needed it, and some for Paula. He wanted to see Nicole's grave, wanted to be with Nicole. He was even more depressed because of the medication they had him on. He had the gun, and he just wanted it all to stop. When A.C. got to the cemetery there were police cars blocking the entrance so they tried to find another way in. After awhile they heard on the radio that the police were looking for him. A. C. decided to take him home; he told O. J. he was taking him to see his mother [at Rockingham]. O. J. said he "didn't give a shit" that the police said he was a fugitive, at that point it didn't matter what the police thought.
THE DNA EVIDENCE: O. J. pointed out that the police came up with "matches" and results before they even sent it out to the labs for testing. He mentioned the situation with Tracie Savage breaking a news story that the blood was O. J.'s before it was even tested. He doesn't understand how the public can be blind to that situation and what it indicates. O. J. believes in DNA and understood it before the trial (he reads Patricia Cromwell novels).
MARK FUHRMAN: The interviewer said Fuhrman didn't even know whether O. J. was home that night [so why plant evidence?]. O. J. said yes Fuhrman did and didn't plant the glove until he found that out. They claimed that they were looking for a killer on O. J.'s property, but they didn't draw their guns, and they let Arnelle go inside the house first, and they did not ask "Where's O. J." as soon as they found Kato and Arnelle. If they were so concerned for his safety, why not? Mark Fuhrman had 20 minutes to himself, and it only takes two to five minutes to go around behind the garage. And he didn't ask any other detective to go with him to investigate the noise. O. J. also believes Mark Fuhrman told the other detectives about the 1985 domestic incident at O. J.'s house which he investigated. Why would Fuhrman plant evidence? O. J. said ask Fuhrman. He also mentioned the defense presented live witnesses to Fuhrman's racist remarks other than the screenwriter who made the tapes. The prosecution was going to vilify them even though Marcia Clark knew they told the truth.
THE RACE CARD: O. J. was born black and grew up in a black community. He has always given money to many different charities, but most money usually goes to minority charities. The media made the case one about race, beginning with selecting a jury and where, then with how many blacks were on the jury. He just wanted a fair jury. Mark Fuhrman is a known racist and yet the DA put him on the stand anyway. In August 1994, even before the trial, the polls showed that 70-80 percent of the white American public had already decided he was guilty. Yet that same group criticized the jury, which had sat through nine months of the evidence in the case, for coming to a decision in four hours. O. J. said that the majority of jurors are minorities and the majority in jails are black or hispanic, and therefore black juries do convict blacks every day.
MAKING MONEY OFF THE TRAGEDY: O. J. said he lost someone he loved too and he lost more as well, because he lost his life in a sense and his ability to earn a living and support his family. He and the taxpayers of the state lost financially as well. He would like to talk with Marcia Clark and Chris Darden, but they are too busy making money (books, lectures). That doesn't bother him, but he would be willing to sit down with Marcia Clark and answer all her questions about everything. She can film it, as long as he can market it. He is the sole financial support of four children and he has a right to make a living. He is not out asking for people to send him money. He is criticized by people [for his book and the video] but what do those same people think about Marcia Clark, Denise Brown, Faye Resnick, etc. who are making money off the case? He believes this is hypocrisy. He is just trying to replenish what he lost defending himself. People are saying he, as an American, cannot even go out and earn money. He was going to do an interview for free, but people picketed the network to prevent it. This is prejudice against his rights to earn a living and support his family.
O. J. IS INNOCENT: O. J. said he absolutely did not kill them, he could not kill anybody. Look at his history, and you will find he didn't get into confrontations with people. Other than his 1989 incident with Nicole and once on a football field, he never fought with anybody. His mother taught him to do unto others as you would have them do to you. O. J. believes in God. And the only thing that saved him from suicide that day was what his mother told him, that you can't go to heaven if you commit suicide. He believes that is where Nicole is and he wants to see her again.
WHO KILLED THEM: O. J. believes there is no doubt the answer is in the world of Faye Resnick. Shortly before the murders Nicole helped put Faye in a rehabilitation center. Three days later, Sydney heard her mother crying--not giggling as Faye said. Sydney knows the difference. After the murders Faye claimed she was afraid of A. C. Cowlings and Bob Shapiro, and ran away into hiding and began spinning her story about Nicole and O. J.. She is a flat-out liar and her book is a lie. Cora Fischman spent more time with Nicole than anybody except O. J. and the kids. Cora will tell you Faye lied. Did Faye ever leave the country before because something happened? Why doesn't some investigative reporter investigate Faye Resnick? The prosecution never asked who delivered drugs to Faye. If somebody came to Nicole's house looking for Faye, Nicole would have been confrontational with them. There is somebody else who knows the truth: the killer.
THE ROCKINGHAM TOUR AND SELECTED VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE CRIMINAL TRIAL:
ALAN PARK: O. J. believes Alan Park was an honest witness who tried to testify to the best of his memory; however, he was mistaken in some of the things he said. For example, he said he did not notice the Bronco parked out front when he drove up and when he left. He also said there were two cars parked inside the Rockingham gate, but he was wrong. Also Kato said he only saw one car. O. J. explained and demonstrated with two cars parked there that there is no way a stretch limousine (or any other car probably) could have come in from Ashford and made the turn through the driveway to exit on Rockingham because there was not enough room to get around the car in back. Instead, Alan Park saw pictures shown to him by the police and prosecution of the two cars parked there the day after the murders (June 13th) and he somehow thought he had seen them that night. Also, one of the cars belongs to Arnelle and she was in that car and did not return until around 1:00 a.m. that night. So Alan Park was mistaken, and he was mistaken about not seeing the Bronco.
Alan Park also insisted that the golf bag shown in court was not the golf bag O. J. had that night, although he did describe it as a Swiss Army golf bag. O. J. said that bag was the ONLY bag the Swiss Army company makes; it was new and they had just recently sent O. J. one as a gift. There is no other kind of Swiss Army bag, so Alan Park was simply mistaken.
THE SHOVEL AND PLASTIC BAG IN THE BRONCO: The prosecution tried to make these appear sinister to the jury, when in fact they are standard equipment in Broncos. O. J. used the shovel as a pooper scooper. In fact Nicole had a disgruntled neighbor who had complained about the dogs' "do" and the ex-husband had picked some up. O. J. was going to go over and clean up the area using the shovel.
THE WAY THE BRONCO WAS PARKED: O. J. showed police pictures of the way the Bronco was parked taken by the police. It did not look "askew" or that unusual.
THE ROCKINGHAM BLOOD : The mixed blood found on the Bronco console was a total of 7/10 of one drop. The blood on the driveway and in the foyer of the house was a total of less than 15 drops of blood. The blood missing from the vial that Detective Phil Vannatter carried from Parker Center to O. J.'s house was about 30 drops of blood. Two drops at the beginning of the driveway were located such that it appeared the person was bleeding from both sides of the body. Significantly, the blood drops went toward the front door of the house, not toward the side of the garage where Marcia Clark said O. J. had gone.
THE PATH ON THE SIDE OF THE GARAGE: O. J. pointed out a door on the side of the garage that opens onto that path. The prosecution made a big deal that O. J. couldn't have gotten in that door because of the "stuff" that was up against it inside. However, it opens outward and he could have gotten inside there. He pointed out another door further down, to the washroom, laundry area. The prosecution made a big deal out of clothes that were found in the washing machine, which turned out to be Arnelle's clothes. He described this one as one of those "Kodak moments" in the criminal trial that didn't go well for the prosecution. There were no blood drops found anywhere on that walkway. There is dense foliage on the outside of the wire fence and somebody going over the fence could get hurt on the sharp edges. There were no blood or fibers found on the fence. The pathway is concrete and is about 2 1/2 to 3 feet wide--very narrow. The air conditioning unit outside Kato's room is as wide as the pathway; you cannot go around it, you would have to go under it. It is head-high to O. J.'s head. If he had run into it, it would have been with his face and he would have had severe bruises at least and there would be blood on the air conditioner. Kato said he heard three loud bumps; he never said he heard somebody hit the air conditioning unit--that was Marcia Clark's theory. The walkway is covered with berries and leaves which would have been found inside the house on the light carpeting; none were found inside.
O. J.'S "ALIBI": After O. J. got home from McDonald's, around 10:00 p.m., he went looking for a sand wedge golf club and a three-wood. He went in the garage and got a club, then opened up the Bentley and took a club and some golf balls out. He went through a bag with balls in it, and picked out unscuffed balls, and put them in a white bag in the car with a Hertz windbreaker. He took several other scuffed balls out. They had that white bag in the courtroom, but because Kato said he never saw it, Judge Ito would not allow it as evidence. O. J. chipped the scuffed balls. He noted that the police found some golf balls the next day. He then put that club back in the Bentley, left the white bag and the other bag there by the car. He walked out the gate and looked in the back of the Bronco; the dog came out, they walked around and came in the Ashford gate and went in the house. The whole time from going into the garage, to hitting the golf balls, to going back in was no more than ten minutes.
THE FIGURE ALAN PARK SAW GO IN THE HOUSE: O. J. said Marcia Clark misrepresented the facts here [in her final arguments]. He showed clips from the video from the trial, first with Marcia Clark showing with a pointer the "figure" coming up the driveway toward the front door, and then with Alan Park showing exactly where he had seen the person, and placing an "X" exactly on the edge of the driveway where the front "porch" area is in front of the door. This is where O. J. has said he went out and dropped his suit bag and golf bag, right where the limousine stopped in front of the front door. It is obvious Marcia Clark did misrepresent this to the jury. But the jury didn't "buy" it; the pundits did and kept repeating it as fact.
OJ'S BLOOD VIAL: O. J. showed the video of Thano Peratis testifying at the preliminary hearing, saying he took about 8 cc of O. J.'s blood, then the video the prosecution made of Peratis changing that testimony, saying he made a mistake. He then showed video clips of Dennis Fung testifying about putting the vial into the black plastic trashbag, and Andrea Mazzola stepping out of the room at the time to sit down and "close her eyes", then he showed a clip of Dr. Henry Lee testifying about the wet blood transfer on the bindles, and saying "Something wrong." He pointed out that the blood drops in the foyer were small and considered by Dr. Michael Baden to be indicative of a small paper cut, not a large cut. There was no blood on the door knob, the light switch, the stair bannister. He then showed a video of Fung testifying about collecting the socks between 4:30 - 4:40 p.m., and his knowledge of Willie Ford videotaping the bedroom at 4:14 p.m. Fung "couldn't recall" Ford being there. Then he showed a clip of Johnny Cochran telling the jury Willie Ford said he didn't see any socks at 4:14 p.m. when he taped the bedroom.
O. J. explained the defense had requested the DA provide any and all film taken by the LAPD, and the prosecution denied there was any until months later when the defense just happened to be looking at some still photos and saw a picture of Ford taking the video. Many of the police knew Ford had been there.
LIGHTING IN THE HOUSE: The front entrance of the house faces west and O. J.'s bedroom faces east. It is not possible to see lights on in the house except Sydney's room and the kitchen. Marcia Clark emphasized there were no lights on until the "figure" entered the house and turned all the lights on. This is incorrect and O. J. demonstrated why. Alan Park could not possibly have seen from the Ashford gate whether there were any lights on in the house.
OJ'S STATEMENT (MISCELLANEOUS):
OPPORTUNITY: The prosecution used only witnesses that supported their theory that the murders took place at 10:15, but avoided key witnesses that didn't fit that theory and tried to discredit them. None of these people tried to make money from their part in the case but Clark and Darden consistently accused them of trying to do that. Hypocritically so, since both were working on book deals themselves.
THE DISGUISE: The whole neighborhood at Bundy knew O. J. and his Bronco. People would have recognized him with or without a knit cap--so the cap is ridiculous.
THE MEDIA: The media "barbequed" O. J. from day one. They are supposed to report the facts without interpretations, but they all put their own spin on the facts in the case, particularly the tabloids, including the TV tabloids. O. J. indicated that would be his next litigation, to try to get justice from them because they lied and made up stories. He gave several examples. One in particular was a picture of a stripper with O. J.. He said that was at a birthday party celebrating several birthdays, with about 400 people present, and Nicole sent the stripper, but the story did not explain any of that. He said that when he got out of jail he picked up his kids, spent the night with them at a friends house, they all slept together, got up the next day and visited and had fun. He turned on the TV and saw Katie Couric with Sheila Weiler, an author, who was saying he had returned his kids to the Browns around 2:00 a.m. that night and Sydney was "traumatized." They were lying about his kids to make money. He had a friend call NBC and say that was not true, and they asked "How do you know it's not true?" That's the new standard [guilty until proven innocent].
MOTIVE: O. J. said the first fifteen years of their relationship before January, 1992, he had no reason to be jealous of Nicole because she gave him none. If they had problems it was his fault. Then in January, 1992, Nicole wanted to separate and be on her own. After 30 days he told her to file for a divorce. She moved to Gretna Green. They had an agreement that if either got into a serious relationship with someone they would tell the other. Nicole dated numerous people; O. J. finally started a relationship with Paula Barbieri. From January, 1992, to May 1993, they never had a single argument about who was dating whom. In February, 1993, Nicole started trying to get back together with O. J.. He had a relationship with Paula and was happy and didn't want to get back with Nicole. Nicole came over and asked him to get together, and she insisted for the next three months, coming to his house, following him to the golf course, and Nicole showed up in Mexico on one of O. J.'s trips. Finally, he told Paula he felt he had to give it a try and find out how he felt about Nicole. They agreed to try it for one year.
O. J. wouldn't let Nicole move back in for that year, and he refused to associate with one of her female friends. In May, 1994, on Mother's Day, he told Nicole he couldn't do it any more, but he would try through the summer only if she would go to a therapist. She refused to do that. He then started avoiding her unless it concerned the children. He got back with Paula. The following week Nicole got sick and O. J. was over there doing things for her. Her birthday was that week. He had a gold Cartier lighter to give her, but the kids asked what they could give her. He had a bracelet that he had bought for Paula, and he let the kids give it to her. He was gone the next week, and then he had a party at his home for his son's preschool, with about 300-400 kids and their parents. Nicole came over, everything was fine, she laid across him on the sofa, and went upstairs to lie down in his bedroom. She then went home. Later she called him, upset because Faye had told her O. J. had invited Faye to attend some affair O. J. was sponsoring. O. J. said he didn't invite Faye, she had called him and invited herself and Christian Reichart, but she didn't tell Nicole that.
He avoided Nicole and sent her a letter asking her not to come to his house except to pick up or drop off the children. His maid, Gigi, had complained that Nicole was upset with her over something, and his last maid, Michelle, had left because Nicole had a "physical confrontation" with her. So he tried to cut off communication with Nicole. The week of her death, they spoke about the recital tickets. He had to go "back East" and couldn't attend Justin's preschool graduation. She saved him a seat at the recital, two seats from her. They didn't speak, but mouthed to each other "Sydney is beautiful." He noted that one police report had stated that Nicole's sister Dominique said Nicole told her "See, O. J. won't even talk to me." He went outside and was joking with her parents. The prosecution tried to describe him as gloomy and in a bad mood, but the video that was taken showed him differently.
In their year and a half apart, they never argued about anyone she dated. None of her friends will say O. J. called them about that. Marcia Clark interviewed Nicole's closest friend, Cora Fischman, and kept interrupting her saying "You're not her friend, how can you say that?" She tried to intimidate Cora. O. J. said before Nicole's death, Cora had told him to take Nicole and the kids and get out of Los Angeles. He feels guilty that Nicole wanted to move back in with him and he didn't let her, and that he didn't listen to Cora. He said even Faye had told him then that Nicole loved him and he didn't listen to her.
O. J. said he swears before God that he did not commit these crimes. He asked that the media just print the facts. All he asks is that people treat him the way he has always treated people, fairly. He wants people to listen to him and the facts of the case and then judge for themselves.
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