Faye Resnick was a close friend of Nicole Brown Simpson whose personal struggles became a focal point of the defense's alternative theory of the murders. Defense attorneys repeatedly invoked her cocaine use to construct a drug-murder motive, pressing motions to admit related testimony and using it as a centerpiece during the cross-examination of Detective Tom Lange. Though she never took the stand in the criminal trial, her name surfaced across multiple proceedings as the defense sought to shift the narrative away from O.J. Simpson and toward the possibility that the killings were drug-related. She was later deposed in the civil trial and