IN 1996, JURORS RETURNED a not guilty verdict for O.J. As soon as O.J. was released, he immediately wanted to go back to his home on Rockingham. When his vehicle arrived, the gates opened and the SUV entered. A guard stood just inside. Numerous bystanders, as well as many members of the press, had observed O.J. riding as a passenger through the gates.
What O.J. did not know, and very few others noticed, was that there was a striking blond woman with long hair, in her twenties, observing all this as it happened. Most interesting was the fact that this particular woman resembled Nicole Simpson.
This same woman appeared outside the gates, by the same driveway where O.J. entered, every day for the next two weeks. Evidently this woman had nothing more important to do than watching and hoping to meet O. J.
Finally, the guard realized she was not going to go away. They struck up a conversation. According to the guard, this young lady was not going to leave until she could meet O.J. and talk with him. The guard told O.J. that there was a woman who had been walking back and forth in front of the gate for several weeks who resembled Nicole.
“What does she want?” O.J. asked. The guard told O.J. she wanted to meet him.
O.J. watched her from upstairs for several days. He finally made up his mind that he wanted to meet this woman who looked so much like Nicole. He walked out of the house toward the guard at the front driveway gate and told him to open the gate just enough for him to slide out. The gate opened slightly and O.J. squeezed through. There, standing in the driveway, he first met Christie Michelle Prody.
That began a twelve-year relationship.
O.J. and Christie Prody, forty years his junior, began to appear together in articles and on television. The stories for the next twelve years were not flattering but Christie didn’t seem to mind, just as long as she could appear with O. J.
When O.J. was arrested for the Las Vegas fiasco, Prody was in the Las Vegas courtroom. While O.J. was being arraigned and tried, Prody was filmed sitting in court. After October of 2008, when O.J. was found guilty and sentenced to nine to thirty-three years, Christie was no longer seen.
For whatever reason, Christie packed her bags and moved out of O. J.’s South Florida home and headed back to Minnesota. Christie wasted no time in starting a new life in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. On July 29, 2009, Christie Prody gave birth to a five-pound, eight-ounce little girl she named Madeline. The baby was not O. J.’s but was fathered by a man she took up with when she moved to Minnesota.
Before the baby was born, Christie claims she checked into a rehab facility for her addiction to alcohol. In looking at Christie’s life, I found not only alcohol dependence but drug addiction as well.
She had been using drugs for quite some time. Not much was known about Christie Prody or her past; she just appeared on O.J. Simpson’s doorstep out of nowhere.
I knew from the many articles written over the past twelve years that Christie and O.J. had a very explosive and volatile relationship. According to these articles, this was O. J.’s fault. Friends that I spoke to said that was not true, they said it was Christie’s addiction to drugs and alcohol, a problem she had before she ever met O. J.
I wondered just why O.J. would continue this relationship for twelve years. I reached over and picked up a picture of Nicole and compared it with Christie Prody. Yes, there was some likeness between the two. Maybe having Christie around reminded him of Nicole. If I was right, and O.J. had not committed the murders, then his comfort with this resemblance would explain their relationship.
On September 15 and 16 of 2009, Christie appeared on the national TV show Inside Edition, in a two-part interview.
She was asked: “What went through your mind when you knew he [O. J.] was going to jail for a long time?”
Prody responded: “That it was now time for me to be free and start my life over.”
She was asked: “Was he ever violent with you?”
Prody responded: “Yes.”
“Did he hit you?”
Her response: “Yes.”
She was then asked: “Did you honestly believe if you left, he would kill you?”
“Yeah, I did . . . . He called and said he would come over there and shoot me and shoot himself.”
“Did he [O. J.] own a gun?”
Prody responded: “Yes, he did.” “Do you believe that O.J. Simpson killed Nicole and Ron?” Prody said: “Yes.”
Then she was asked: “Did he [O. J.] ever admit to you that he did it?”
Prody: “In so many words, he did.”
She continued her appearance on other shows with similar questions and continued to blame O.J. for all her problems.
Then Christie Prody came out and said she had made a book deal for a tell-all that would be released in 2010.
Now, the whole story was coming out. Christie was coming out early to promote her upcoming book release. She admitted the book would contain details involving O. J., a twisted life on drugs and alcohol, as well as sex and violence. The kind of book a lot of people would run to order.
Christie was portraying herself as a victim. Was she really a victim or was this her way of being famous and living in the limelight as she had been when she lived with O. J.?
Who is Christie Prody?
She was born Christie Michelle Prody on April 21, 1975, in Fargo, North Dakota. Her social security card was issued between 1980 and 1981; she had a Minnesota driver’s license that expired in 2000.
I decided to look into Christie Prody’s life to see if she was another O.J. victim or if she herself might be hiding a criminal past. None of the numerous interviewers asked if she had a criminal record. Did she have a record and, if so, did it relate to drugs? I was interested in determining her truth and veracity. After all, this was the woman who stood outside the gate at Rockingham for weeks after O. J.’s trial, just to meet him. O.J. was not the stalker in this case. Prody was.
This was a woman who wanted to have her fifteen minutes of fame. Who is the victim in this strange situation? I don’t think it’s Christie Prody.
After viewing her criminal records, the one that stood out most was an arrest made on December 16, 2000, for Fraud–False Statement. Could she be making false statements about O. J.?
You will have to judge that for yourself.
Criminal Record: Christie Michelle Prody
DOB: 04/21/1975
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade Court Case #: B06050559
Offense: Drug Paraphernalia/Possession
State: Florida
County: Dade
Offense Date: 01/19/2002
Arrest Date: 06/11/2002
Court Case #: 132002MM0320110001XX
Court Level/Degree: First Degree Misdemeanor
Court Plea: Nolo Contendere
State: Florida
County: Dade
Offense Date: 12/16/2000
Arrest Date: 12/16/2000
Court Case #: M00070999
Arrest Statute: Fraud–False Statement
Arrest Level/Degree: Second Degree Misdemeanor
Court Disposition: Transfer to Traffic Court
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade
Arrest Date: 03/28/2007
Offense: Bench Warrant