Faye Resnick

Faye Resnick was born July 3, 1957, one of four children. Resnick claimed her father regularly beat her for wetting the bed when she was a child According to Resnick, her mother ignored her husband's rampages. Her mother worked a day job as a nurse and was a budding journalist at night. She ultimately became a successful columnist who wrote about holistic medicine, and later became a Jehovah's Witness, making Faye's childhood "even more chaotic". Resnick—then Faye Hutchison—left home to live with an aunt in the Bay Area, where "she was crowned 1975 Maid of Hayward, a moment captured in a newspaper photograph showing her on the verge of tears. It was a beginning of sorts because it gave what Resnick described as 'both an ego boost and some career ideas.'" Resnick claims she attended law courses at a community college, although there is no record of this, ==Personal life==

Resnick has been married four times, and gave birth to one daughter, Francesca, as People reported in November 1994: Since then, Jackie has publicly stated that she wrongfully blamed Faye for the strained relationship she had with her father at the time, and that she has great love and respect for Faye. Resnick, an admitted cocaine addict, attended multiple drug rehabilitation programs in the eight years preceding November 1994. and the defense team in O. J. Simpson's murder trial to allege that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were executed by drug dealers to whom Resnick owed money in an attempt to scare her. Resnick's third husband, Paul, reported that a concerned Brown called him in early June 1994 to report that "Faye was getting out of control" and abusing cocaine again. Resnick stayed for several days at Brown's condominium until on June 9, 1994, Brown and several other friends conducted an intervention and persuaded Resnick to check into the Exodus Recovery Center in Marina Del Rey, California. Three days later, Brown and her friend, waiter Ronald Goldman, were murdered. ==Books==

Resnick collaborated on two books connected to the O. J. Simpson murder trial: • Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted (1994, with gossip columnist for The National Enquirer, Mike Walker) and has been panned by some detractors as a roman à clef. The Los Angeles Times termed it "the first of the major O.J. Simpson books to hit the shelves" and noted it was a best-seller. New York magazine dubbed it "the best-selling apotheosis of trashiness". The L.A. Times termed it "a New Age nonfiction work about women who suffer domestic violence and their journey toward recovery", and cited as her literary influence New Age author Marianne Williamson. ==Media appearances==

Resnick posed nude for Playboy magazine in March 1997, appearing on the cover of the American issue and in interior photos, and she has participated in multiple interviews about the photo spread. She has also appeared in multiple episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a friend of cast member Kyle Richards. Her most infamous appearance is in season one, when she engages in an argument with Camille Grammer and Alison Dubois at Grammer's dinner party. It was later dubbed, by many cast members, as the dinner party from hell. During this dinner, she was referred to by Grammer as "the morally corrupt Faye Resnick". Cast member Lisa Vanderpump referred to her as "Faye Rancid" during one episode. Faye also appeared in Season 10, Episode 6 of Keeping Up with the Kardashians entitled, "Don't Panic", as a guest at her friend Kris Jenner's birthday party in Las Vegas. Faye appeared again in Keeping Up with the Kardashians for Season 12, Episode 3 entitled, "Significant Others and Significant Brothers". In this episode, she uses her skills as an interior designer to help her friend Kris Jenner decorate her son's new house. The decor is in a style that Jenner's daughter Kourtney Kardashian questions as being too feminine. She was portrayed by actress Connie Britton in the 2016 television series American Crime Story: The People vs. O. J. Simpson which is based on the O. J. Simpson trial. ==References==