Faye Resnick | |
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Born |
Faye Denise Hutchison July 3, 1957 Brentwood, California, U.S. |
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Television | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills |
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Children | 1 |
Website | fayeresnick |
Faye Denise Resnick (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.
Resnick was born July 3, 1957, one of four children born to a Spanish-Corsican mother and a father who abandoned the family when Resnick was very young. (an October 20, 1994 L.A. Times article states Faye's mother was Spanish-Italian and her stepfather German, whilst Resnick claims "Italian, Spanish and English, or - to be more precise - I am Corsican, Castilian, and Anglo-Saxon).
Resnick claims her father regularly beat her for wetting the bed when she was a child (the October 20, 1994 L.A. Times article indicates 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 Latina 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 Area, where "she was crowned 1975 Maid of Hayward, a moment captured in a newspaper photograph showing her on the verge of tears. No apocalypse, it was a beginning of sorts because it gave what Resnick described as 'both an ego boost and some career ideas.'"
Resnick claims she attended law courses at a community college and later became the director of a John Robert Powers finishing and modeling school. However, the organization has no record of her employment. She is a former manicurist.
Resnick was previously married and divorced three times and gave birth to one daughter. As People reports: