O.J. 'Ripped' Nicole Brown Simpson's Pants, 'Got a Little Forcible' on Their 1st Date, Friends Claim in New Doc

Lifetime's new four-part documentary The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is revealing more claims of physical abuse against O.J. Simpson, including one instance during his first date with ex-wife Nicole in the late 1970s.

Nicole met O.J. in 1977 when she was 18 and working as a hostess at a Los Angeles restaurant. At the time, O.J. was still married to ex-wife Marguerite Whitley, but reportedly began courting Nicole immediately. 

In the first episode of the docuseries, a friend of Nicole’s recalls noticing something off about Nicole’s pants after her first date with O.J., then 30.

“When she came home, her pants were ripped… zipper was ripped,” says D’Anne Purcilly, whose then-husband David LeBon allowed Nicole to stay with him while she was living in Los Angeles. “And they were jeans. And David’s like ‘You can’t just rip jeans like a linen something.’”

Lebon says in the docuseries that he then questioned Nicole about what had happened.

“I said ‘Nicole what happened to you?’ She said ‘He got a little forcible.’ And I said ‘Why would you let him do that to you?'"

According to Purcilly, LeBon was “really upset” and wanted to “kind of have a few words” with O.J.

“And [Nicole] said ‘No, don’t. I really like him. I really, really like him.’” Purcilly recalls. “She fell in love with him I think the first time she met him.”

But according to Nicole’s three sisters, who share her story in the docuseries, she spent the majority of her seven-year marriage to O.J. smiling to mask the pain of verbal and physical abuse. The torment was vividly revealed to the world during O.J.’s trial for the 1994 murders of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman.

Though acquitted of the murders in the so-called "Trial of the Century," O.J. was later found liable in a lawsuit filed by the Brown and Goldman families in 1997. He lived the rest of his days in infamy until his death from cancer on April 10.

The docuseries features interviews with 50 people, including Nicole's sisters, other family members and friends, as well as never-before-seen footage of her.

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The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson aired over two nights on June 1 and June 2 on Lifetime.