{{Short description|American TV personality (born 1957)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Faye Resnick | image = Faye Resnick 1994 (cropped).jpg | caption = Resnick in 1994 | birth_name = Faye Denise Hutchison | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|7|3}} | birth_place = Brentwood, California, U.S. | education = | occupation = {{hlist|Television personality|author|interior designer}} | years_active = 1994–present | known_for = Involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder trial | television = ''The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' | spouse = {{plain list| * {{marriage|Rick Barnett|1978|1979|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Fadi Halabi|1984|1986|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Paul Resnick|1987|1991|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Everett Jack Jr.|2015}} }} | children = 1 | website = {{URL|fayeresnick.com}} }}
'''Faye Denise Resnick''' (née '''Hutchison'''; born July 3, 1957)<ref name=People42>{{cite news|journal=People|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104306,00.html|series=Candor or Pander?|date=November 7, 1994|volume=42|number=19|author=David Ellis|title=A Sensational Memoir Raises Questions By—and About—One of Nicole's Pals|access-date=March 1, 2013|archive-date=March 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310004114/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104306,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an American television personality, author, and interior designer. She is best known for her involvement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial and for her appearance on the reality television series ''The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills''.<ref>{{cite news|journal=The New York Times|title=Conflicting Views on Author of Simpson Book|author= David Margolick|date= October 21, 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/21/us/conflicting-views-on-author-of-simpson-book.html}}</ref>
==Early life== Faye Resnick was born July 3, 1957,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Aurthur|first1=Kate|title=14 Things To Know About "Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills" Villain Faye Resnick|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-villain-faye-re|website=Buzzfeed|date=8 January 2013 |access-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> one of four children.
Resnick claimed her father regularly beat her for wetting the bed when she was a child<ref name=People42 /> (a ''Los Angeles Times'' article published on October 20, 1994 indicated it was her stepfather who beat her, escalating from spankings when she was a youngster to "hideous beatings" as she matured).<ref name="LA94 p2">{{cite news|journal=L.A. Times|title='Diary' Opens a New, Lurid Chapter: Author Faye Resnick's bumps in the fast lane would be unremarkable except that she shared some of them with Nicole Simpson|date=October 20, 1994|author=Ralph Frammolino|author2=Shawn Hubler|page=2 of 3|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-20-me-52588-story.html}}</ref> 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|date=March 2013}} who wrote about holistic medicine, and later became a Jehovah's Witness, making Faye's childhood "even more chaotic".<ref name="LA94 p2" /> Resnick "describes her mother as a religious fanatic whose predictions that Armageddon would come in 1975 prompted Ms. Resnick to rush into her first sexual encounter beforehand".<ref name="Baltimore94 P2">{{cite news|title=Suddenly, everybody knows Faye Resnick|date=October 22, 1994|author=David Margolick, ''The New York Times'' News Service|journal=The Baltimore Sun|page=2 of 2|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/10/22/suddenly-everybody-knows-faye-resnick/|access-date=2013-03-19|archive-date=2013-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327091111/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-10-22/features/1994295053_1_faye-resnick-brown-simpson-nicole-brown/2|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.'"<ref name="LA94 p2" /><ref>{{cite news|journal=The Daily Review|title=Cover|date=May 23, 1975|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/daily-review/1975-05-23|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411112806/http://newspaperarchive.com/daily-review/1975-05-23|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 11, 2013}}</ref>
Resnick claims she attended law courses at a community college, although there is no record of this,<ref name="Baltimore94 P2" /> and later became the director of a John Robert Powers finishing and modeling school. However, the organization has no record of her employment.<ref name=People42 /> She is a former manicurist.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/faye-resnick-book-nicole-simpson-people-v-oj-simpson-episode-4|title=People V OJ Simpson: The Most Outrageous Quotes from Faye Resnick's Book |magazine=Vanity Fair|author=Joanna Robinson|date=February 23, 2016 |access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref>
==Personal life== Resnick has been married four times, and gave birth to one daughter, Francesca, as ''People'' reported in November 1994:<ref name=People42 /> {{blockquote|In the early '80s, after a failed first marriage, Resnick moved to London to pursue a modeling career and married Fadi Halabi, whom she calls an eccentric heir, and they had a daughter, Francesca, now 10. She eventually divorced Halabi, and in 1986 she moved to Los Angeles and married Resnick, an entrepreneur, the following year. (They divorced in 1991.)}}
The Resnicks paid $1.3 million for a home formerly owned by Walt Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner, and Faye became active in activities associated with the Beverly Hills School District, where Francesca attended elementary school,<ref name="LA94 p2" /> such as the Beverly Hills P.T.A. During the 1990–91 academic year, she served on the board of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation; obtaining that position required a minimum donation of $1,000 and recognition as a school activist.<ref name="LA94 p2" /> At that time, David Margolick of ''The New York Times'' News Service reported that "She also became addicted to drugs".<ref name="Baltimore94 P2" />
Faye and Paul Resnick, a wealthy hotel refurbisher, divorced amicably in 1991.<ref name=People42 /><ref name="LA94 p2" /> Faye's settlement netted her a payout of $194,000. His daughter Jackie stated in 1995: Faye "was the absolute worst of his [five] nightmare ex-wives. She put a great strain on our relationship."<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite news|journal=New York|title=The Secrets of Faye Resnick's Success|date=March 20, 1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gEIXx4VywEC&q=new+york+faye+resnick&pg=PA16}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://realitywives.net/blogs/kyle-richards-family-attends-wedding-of-faye-resnick/|title=[PHOTOS] Kyle Richards Is Bridesmaid For Faye Resnick's Wedding To Everett Jack; Kris Jenner Officiates|date=2015-10-11|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-24}}</ref>
Resnick, an admitted cocaine addict, attended multiple drug rehabilitation programs in the eight years preceding November 1994.<ref name=People42 /> Consequently, although she maintained that she was sober at the time her book was published, her past drug use led some to question her credibility and motives<ref name=People42 /><ref name=Chicago95>{{cite news|journal=Chicago Tribune|title=Testimony On Resnick Drugs Barred|date=July 13, 1995}}</ref><ref name=Philadelphia95>{{cite news|title=Simpson Defense Presses Drug Link A Detective Faced A Barrage Of Questions. The Judge Ruled The Defense Can See Some Fuhrman Files|journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=March 9, 1995|author= Robin Clark|url=http://articles.philly.com/1995-03-09/news/25698172_1_drug-dealers-johnnie-cochran-drug-link|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218090105/http://articles.philly.com/1995-03-09/news/25698172_1_drug-dealers-johnnie-cochran-drug-link|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 18, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Chicago95 /><ref name=Philadelphia95 />
===Friendship with Nicole Brown Simpson=== Resnick and Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson, first met in 1990. According to Robert Kardashian, Resnick only knew Brown for a year and a half. The two socialized in and around Brentwood, Los Angeles and vacationed in Mexico together.<ref name=People42 /><ref name="Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker">{{cite book|title=Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted|url=https://archive.org/details/nicolebrownsimps00resn|url-access=registration|author=Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker|date=October 1, 1994|publisher=Dove Books|edition=2nd|isbn=978-1-55144-061-3}}</ref> 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.<ref name=People42 /> Three days later, Brown and her friend, waiter Ronald Goldman, were murdered.<ref name=Chicago95 /><ref name=Philadelphia95 />
==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)<ref name="Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker"/> reveals information unflattering to Nicole Brown Simpson (and Resnick)<ref>{{cite news |title=Nicole's Story, By Her 'Best Friend' A 'private Diary' About Nicole Simpson Sure Makes A Lot Of Things Public|author=Heller, Karen|date=November 3, 1994|work=Philly.com|url=http://articles.philly.com/1994-11-03/living/25868131_1_faye-d-resnick-private-diary-friend|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729072426/http://articles.philly.com/1994-11-03/living/25868131_1_faye-d-resnick-private-diary-friend|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref> and has been panned by some detractors as a roman à clef.<ref>{{cite news|title=Los Angeles Times Book Review: All About Faye|author=David Ehrenstein|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 22, 1995|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-22-bk-22743-story.html}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Zamichow>{{cite news|journal=L.A. Times|title=THE SIMPSON LEGACY: LOS ANGELES TIMES SPECIAL REPORT : Twist of Fate / HOW THE CASE CHANGED THE LIVES OF THOSE IT TOUCHED : FAYE RESNICK : Nicole's Close Friend Sheds Party Life for a Quest|date=October 11, 1995|author=Nora Zamichow|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-11-ss-55649-story.html}}</ref> ''New York'' magazine dubbed it "the best-selling apotheosis of trashiness".<ref name="books.google.com"/> The president of Dove Books, Michael A. Viner, said Resnick received a six-figure advance for her literary effort, which was rushed to stores in an unusually voluminous first press run of about 750,000 hardcover copies.<ref name="LA94 p2" /> * ''Shattered: In the Eye of the Storm'' (1996, with Jeanne V. Bell) describes Resnick's experiences with the O. J. Simpson trial and her views of both opposing legal teams.<ref>{{cite book|title=Shattered: In the Eye of the Storm|author=Faye D. Resnick with Jeanne V. Bell|date=February 1996|publisher=Dove Books|isbn=978-0-7871-0730-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredineyeof0000resn}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Zamichow />
==Media appearances== Resnick posed nude for ''Playboy'' magazine in March 1997, appearing on the cover of the American issue and in interior photos,<ref>{{cite news|journal=Playboy|url=http://www.playboy.com/girls/view/faye-resnick|title=Celebrity Faye Resnick|access-date=1 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303074437/http://www.playboy.com/girls/view/faye-resnick|archive-date=2013-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> and she has participated in multiple interviews about the photo spread.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=4 February 1997 |title=Faye Resnick bares all for ''Playboy'' |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns197.htm |journal=USA Today |location=Los Angeles |agency=The Associated Press}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|title=Connie Britton Joins FX’s ‘American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/connie-britton-joins-fxs-american-783644/|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=March 23, 2015|access-date=October 23, 2024}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.fayeresnick.com Faye Resnick Design]
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