Alex Constantine - March 17, 2025
Roger Friedman covered the Simpson criminal trial for New York magazine:
" ... After the trial, I wrote extensively about Nicole’s sister, Denise Brown, and the 501c3 she established called the Nicole Brown Simpson Foundation. It was a fraud. The Browns lived on the money they collected. (They’d been very greedy during the trial, selling videos of Nicole and OJ’s wedding, among other things.) Eventually, all the money gone, the Foundation was shuttered. ..." -- Roger Friedman's Showbiz-411 blog, June 12, 2024
Nicole Simpson charity scam,Nov 9, 1999 to National Enquirer ...
THE NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON Charitable Foundation is a rip-off. That's the sad assessment of experts who charge the charity is fleecing the public by raising scads of money to shelter and protect battered women and children -- but hardly giving any of it away.
For instance, the Foundation, run by the family of O.J. Simpson's murdered ex-wife, took in about $113,000 in 1998 -- but gave away a paltry $6,500, according to federal tax filings The ENQUIRER has obtained.
"This is hardly a surprise to me," Susan Forward told The ENQUIRER. She's a nationally recognized expert on preventing domestic violence and was Nicole's personal therapist.
"Everyone in the domestic violence community was asking where the money went."
Denise Brown, Nicole's 42-year-old sister and the head of the charity, drives a $100,000 Mercedes, lives in a plush town house and owns two jet skis plus a Chevy truck, according to California state records.
Her lifestyle has tongues wagging, but Denise insists that her personal income comes from speaking engagements at $2,000 to $10,000 a pop and are not Foundation related.
In an interview with The ENQUIRER, Denise claimed the 1998 tax papers are misleading and don't reflect monies given out by the organizations in January 1999.
"We're being attacked out of jealousy," she told The ENQUIRER. "But the only reason I'm here is because my sister was murdered. Who can be jealous of that?"
Denise did acknowledge the Foundation had been paying her $2,000 a month, but added those payments have come to a halt.
"We're a business," added Denise. "We struggle for every cent we make. This organization was set up in my sister's name. Why on earth would I want to screw over her memory?"
-- JEFFREY RODACK
