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O.J. & Nicole Simpson Wedding Video

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O.J. & Nicole Simpson Wedding Video
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Almost unbelievable four-hour video capturing the day of 2 February 1985 at 360 N. Rockingham Avenue in Brentwood, California, where O.J. Simpson wed his longtime girlfriend Nicole Brown Simpson. In this very intimate wedding video, filmed by the firm that Nicole contracted to professionally record both the wedding and reception, we are witness to a young couple clearly in love and eager to start their lives together, surrounded by family and friends including Robert & Kris Kardashian, Ron Shipp (whom O.J. later told of his dream of killing Nicole), Al Cowlings, Ahmad Rashad and Marcus Allen. Lot includes not only the professional quality BETA SP video tapes produced from the original master tapes, but also, any copyright that the consignor may have, including any right to distribute the video's contents, and any rights of distribution for broadcast, home video, internet, soundtrack and image. Copyright ownership is supported by a court decision holding that the copyright belongs to the consignor, who purchased the copyright from the video company and who will transfer ownership to the successful bidder. All legal documents in support of copyright ownership will be provided. The four-hour video begins with Nicole in her wedding dress, brushing her teeth in the mirror, outfitted in her raccoon slippers and surrounded by her sisters. The camera zooms on her face as she curls her eyelashes and tells everyone that she doesn't feel nervous. She wants to know if anyone has seen O.J. and if he seems nervous. In the background are numerous personal photos of her and O.J., including one of her husband-to-be licking a cake made to look like a woman's breast. There is also footage here of Denise Brown helping Nicole put on her garter. Later, Nicole goes downstairs and meets with the Chaplain, who guides her and O.J. through the ceremony, telling them where to move and stand; visible in the background of O.J.'s garden is a grandiose full-size statue of the football star in action, running with his ball. During the ceremony, there are two cameras filming the event, capturing different angles of the couple simultaneously -- also filmed at this time was O.J.'s baptism, which he decided to do in order to show his commitment to both Jesus and his marriage. The Chaplain remarks that O.J. is serious about his baptism and asks, ''Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?'' ''I do,'' O.J. replies. The Chaplain then confers upon him, ''I baptize you O.J.'' as the football star kneels next to his bride. The couple then recite their vows with the Chaplain ironically extolling O.J. on ''the way you value life'' and being a model of ''what love really is.'' Afterward, the couple pose for photographs and sign the wedding certificate as O.J. says, ''I really don't believe it'' and ''My wife. Never thought I'd say that.'' He also exclaims with a mockingly shocked expression, ''I'm married!'' During this time, we are privy to a secret, hushed conversation between O.J. and his groomsmen Marcus Allen, Al Cowlings and Ahmad Rashad where, oddly, one of them asks O.J. about his and Nicole's first fight and then, later a comment to ''hide all the evidence.'' The action then moves to the reception where we see O.J. and Nicole cut their wedding cake (O.J.: ''All the white people I hired can also have a piece of my cake''), remove Nicole's garter, celebrate a romantic and intimate first dance as husband and wife, and participate in a conga line with their guests. O.J. grows more and more inebriated during the reception, as he dances with Robert Kardashian and says during his speech, ''I'm stupid as shit.'' Also during this speech, O.J. confides, ''Nicole came into my life at a difficult time in any professional athlete's life…at the end of my career…male menopause…all my life I wanted to be a father, I never thought about being a husband…you brought love into my house.'' All immediate family members of O.J. and Nicole also tell the videographer their thoughts of the marriage: both O.J. and Nicole's mother and father, their sisters and O.J.'s children. O.J.'s father says that he was ''very proud to see [O.J.] make up his own mind to be baptized…Nicole is very nice…She asks me how to fix soul food for O.J. and that makes me feel really proud…'' Nicole's mother says, ''[Nicole] would never leave O.J. anymore…This is the man she was convinced…nothing can surprise me anymore. They've been through a lot together already…I love him. I think he's a great man…Never be angry with each other…I know they're going to have their knocks but they're very positive people…'' Robert Kardashian gives a lengthy speech to the camera saying, ''We love Juice like my brother…I must say O.J. that you owe me a hundred bucks because I didn't think you'd do it and you did it…'' Other interesting comments by guests include one by the husband of a couple whom O.J. and Nicole were friends with, half-jokingly saying, ''I can really see where you got your aggressiveness from because your mother is very aggressive.'' Perhaps the most apt comment made during this momentous day was a chance comment by the Chaplain of the couple's future, ''We know God that we will be surprised…'' Indeed. An amazing piece of history of the greatest, most controversial and some say still unsolved ''Trial of the Century.''