"They're going to have to change their style if they're dealing with Denise Brown," he continued.

"I don't know if people understand how loud they are," said Denise Brown, 34, a manager at an investment firm.

"They are very strange people who don't talk to anyone and don't like to interact," said Denise Brown, 28, a neighbor.

"She was just so vivacious, so full of life," her older sister, Denise Brown, said in a telephone interview today.

"She was totally, totally devoted to this man," Denise Brown said.

But Denise Brown, 37, says she doesn't want her sister, whom she was closer to than almost anyone, to be remembered only as a victim.

"I was living in New York and modeling when she told me about him," Denise Brown said.

"She tried her hardest, and it didn't work," Denise Brown said.

Denise Brown said her sister told her she would never marry again, adding, "She loved him to death."

The sister, Denise Brown, went public with her complaint in a written statement distributed to reporters.