Simpson started a relationship with Paula Barbieri, but in May 1993 they broke up because Nicole and he decided
they would have a trial reunion for a year. If it worked out they would get married again. It didn't work out, in May 1994 it ended
and Simpson got back together with Paula Barbieri.
In July 1993 Brett Cantor, a friend of Resnick’s, was brutally
murdered with a knife and Resnick went in hiding for a while. Simpson, Nicole's mother and her friends did everything they could
to make Nicole break up with those criminals but without succes. In June 1994 Nicole Brown was killed the same way as Brett Cantor,
with the same knife, together with Ronald Goldman, a friend who came by to return a pair of glasses… and Resnick disappeared
again. But it was decided straight away by the police, the prosecution and the media that there was to be no other suspect then Simpson.
This was the beginning of the worst witch-hunt of a single person ever.
It took prosecutor Marcia Clark seven months
to "collect" her evidence, while he was in custody; in the nine months' trial that followed this was all proven planted, fabricated,
made up or just nonsense. The police had picked up one of a pair of gloves from the crime scene and thrown that in his garden; those
gloves didn’t even fit him… They fabricated a pair of blood-stained socks and said they found those in his house… and so on and so
forth. Moreover, it was shown that Simpson had had no opportunity to commit those crimes. The prosecution couldn’t produce a
story that fitted the facts in which he did it; without such a story you don’t really have evidence. Since then thousands of people
have tried to make up such a story; no one succeeded.
After he was finally acquitted it took him another fifteen months to get his children back, who were living with the Browns. Right after that he was held liable for murder and abuse in a civil case (meaning that the jury thought that the chance that he was guilty was more than 50%) and sentenced to pay $32 million to the Brown’s and the Goldman’s. A number of his personal possessions were confiscated but for the largest part he managed to escape (by completely legal means) paying this. It made it difficult for him to make money though.
