Faye Resnick

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Faye Denise Resnick (née Hutchison; born July 3, 1957) 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.

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 (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). 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 “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”. Resnick—then Faye Hutchison—left home to live with an aunt in the Bay…