Nicole Brown Simpson's Sisters Reveal Why They're Finally Sharing Her Story in New Doc: It's Time 'to Hear Her Voice' (Exclusive)

Ahead of the release of 'The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson,' which premieres June 1 on Lifetime, her three sisters spoke exclusively with PEOPLE

In an upcoming Lifetime documentary series based on the life and violent death of Nicole Brown Simpson, her three sisters are sharing her story.

On June 12, sisters Tanya, 54, Dominique, 59, and oldest Brown sister Denise, 66, will mark the 30th anniversary of the brutal 1994 murder of Nicole, a woman better known for her tumultuous marriage to football superstar O.J. Simpson and the gruesome way her life ended than for how beautifully they say it was lived.

The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, which will air on June 1 and 2, features interviews with 50 people, including Nicole's sisters, other family members and friends, as well as never-before-seen footage of her.

“Other anniversaries just didn’t feel right,” Denise exclusively tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “But we decided 30 years was probably the best and the last time to hear her voice and tell her story.”

Tanya says, “She’s not a dead body covered with a white sheet at the bottom of the stairs. That’s not Nicole. We want people to see this beautiful human being.”

An adoring mother to her two children, Sydney, now 38, and Justin, 35, Nicole spent the majority of her seven-year marriage to O.J. smiling to mask the pain of verbal and physical abuse — torment that was vividly revealed to the world during O.J.’s 1995 trial for the 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 wrongful-death suit filed by the Brown and Goldman families in 1997 and lived the rest of his days in infamy until his death from cancer in April 2024.

As for how Nicole’s sisters like to remember the woman who brought light to the world in the 35 years she was here, they imagine she’s up to one thing right now.

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“Dancing in heaven. That’s what she’s doing,” Tanya tells PEOPLE.

Dominique has even gotten glimpses of her late sibling over the years. “I’ve had lots of dreams about Nic,” she says. “She’s always in her jeans and a leather jacket, always happy, dancing, social. And she’s always still alive.”

Denise says that while Nicole's murder prompted change, she is saddened that it was accompanied by tragedy.

“The Violence Against Women Act was passed due to Nicole’s murder,” she tells PEOPLE. “She is the root behind a lot of change. Unfortunately it took my sister’s life to make it happen.”

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

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