Shattered: In the Eye of the Storm

by Faye D. Resnick, Jeanne V. Bell, Dominick Dunne (Introduction)

The best friend of Nicole Brown Simpson describes her devastating experiences with the O. J. Simpson trial, offering a inside view of the prosecution and disturbing portrait of the defense team that sought to discredit her testimony. Lit Guild. Tour.

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime, Biography

256 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Faye Resnick is a designer in Hollywood; she also has commercial design projects such as the Ceasars Palace Salon in Las Vegas, due to open in December of 2007.

Resnick was a witness in the civil suit of Fred Goldman versus O. J. Simpson. Resnick claimed that Simpson had stalked his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in the months preceding the murders of Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. She observed O.J. Simpson as a "violent, controlling, obsessed character whose happy public face could transform itself into a terrifying, sweat-drenched mask of naked hate."

Resnick authored Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, based on the life of the woman she called her "best friend". In her book she detailed a lesbian encounter with Nicole Brown which caused much controversy in the public and legal community.

She has been less than forthcoming about her own personal life. It is believed that she was actually born in Alameda, California as Faye Denise Hutcheson. However, the Smartfellowspress website states that "Nothing she says about her mother, her father or her step father and little of what she says about her e-husbands [sic] can be independently confirmed."

Reviews

[Caron · Rating 1 out of 5]

Faye Resnick, the morally corrupt, about sums up this book. Was swept up in People v. OJ and I regret even checking this out because it meant my library had, in the past, spent money on purchasing the book.

[Susan Liston · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a large collection of OJ books, but realized the other day at the library that I had never read Faye Resnick's follow up book, Shattered. So I'll dual review this and "Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted". It's easy to dismiss this as exploitation, I thought as much at the time. Everyone in it came off as some version of vain, shallow, just-plain-dumb, promiscuous, social climbing trash. But I do think there is a core of sincerity here, certainly Faye spends a great deal of the next book talking about how much scorn she received after this book was published, and justifying telling the stories she told (I'm sure she was coaxed for "dirt" by the publisher) She also believed without hesitation from the start that OJ was guilty, and she did have a front row seat for his relationship with Nicole. In "Shattered" she very simply debunks of lot of the defense's version of events, some points I would have liked to have seen made many more times. (Another big mistake the prosecution made was determining by their own standards who was "good enough" to testify. They should have put on everyone, warts and all.) And for gosh sake, so many people have no idea that there was a reason that Nicole was so angry at OJ at the that dance recital, which was the trigger for the whole thing, and that was that he was trying to get her in hot water with the IRS, which meant she quickly had to pull up stakes and move, in spite of the kids being uprooted as well.
So yeah, this is trashy for sure, but a valid contribution to the OJ "canon", if we can call it that.

[Jen Borders · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basically the same info as her first book...

[Carly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciate Faye wanting to have her voice be heard. I mean almost everyone involved in OJ Simpsons case had a book deal. Which, I’m not complaining because I think of Nicole Brown a lot. But Faye, she had two. The first, about Nicole Brown Simpsons private life that Faye says she published to spread awareness about domestic violence and paint Nicole as a person rather than the murdered ex wife of famous football star, OJ Simpson. However…the only thing I know about Faye’s first book is Nicole’s sexual endeavors with Faye and without Faye. Only knowing that about private diary (Faye’s first book about Nicole), it felt purely exploitative. I will read private diary one day, and hopefully my opinion will change that it is what Faye says it is, a book purely about spreading awareness of domestic violence.

Faye’s second book, is her letting the public know she isn’t just a rich, Beverly Hills, blonde, former coke addict, white woman that the media, public, prosecution, and defense treated her as. And she is all of those things. She knows it. But she like Nicole, is also a person outside of OJ Simpson, and the OJ Simpson trial.

I did really like this. I liked Faye.

[Susan Moresi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poor Faye. She wrote a book about Nicole Brown Simpson, because she knew her and the public wasn't really hearing about all the good about Nicole and what she put up with from O.J. Then Faye takes all the backlash, and personal attacks and just has to take them. She writes this book because she realizes there are lots of women in abusive relationships unable to leave and she wants to acknowledge that and help to the extent she can.

[Kellie Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good book by Faye. She reminds the reader of some points made in her first book, but there is a lot of new information. Worth the read.

[Sandy Ortega · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know she got a bad rap during the trial. There are not many books about Nicole Brian Simpson herself. This book does tell a lot about their friendship. I know people were upset about her writing this book. But I honestly didn’t find anything wrong in the book. They were young and Nicole met OJ at such a young age, age never had time to discover who she was. I feel like she was finally spreading her wings and discovering a lot about herself when OJ snuffed her life. She didn’t deserve this. I really wish there were more books about both Nicole and Ron. I also read the book Ron Goldman’s dad and sister wrote. People pit too much emphasis on OJ and we should be remembering the victims and humanizing them and not just saying OJ’s wife and her friend .

[Rhonda Pelech · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was follow up from diary of a life interrupted. more information about what it was like being Nicole Brown Simpson's best friend and the things she knew about the relationship. how she tried and continues to try to seek justice for her friend.