Ex-Wife Denies Report of Domestic Violence

O.J. Simpson’s first wife said in a television interview that he never hit her, and said a prosecution report alleging that a police officer once responded to a domestic violence call at their home is “all made up.”

Marquerite Simpson Thomas also said her marriage broke up in part because of Nicole Brown Simpson, who began dating Simpson about two years before his 1979 divorce.

“I knew of her because she certainly came by and made herself known,” Thomas said in an interview to be aired Friday on “20/20.”

Asked whether Simpson ever abused her, Thomas said: “No, he did not. . . . And if he did, he would have got a frying pan upside his head. There was just no way that I would allow that to happen to me.”