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Nicole lover remembers menacing O.J. moments two years before brutal slayings

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Joseph Perrulli dated Nicole for several months but says he broke things off because O.J. was still in his ex's life

FEARLESS Nicole Brown Simpson confronted her ex O.J. Simpson when she caught him lurking outside her home while she was inside with a lover.

The boyfriend, Joseph Perrulli, says he and Nicole fell in love shortly after she separated from the NFL great.

One night outside her house, he thought he smelled her perfume, “as if she had been standing there,” he writes in his new memoir, The Forgotten Briefcase.

Several weeks later, Nicole called him to tell him that a neighbor had seen O.J. skulking around in the bushes outside her home that night.