>> reporter: dan petrocelli spent days hammering at o.j.' face. >> and you caused scars on her face, didn't you? >> uh, that's incorrect. >> and you cut her lip, didn't you? >> that's incorrect. >> you hit her with your fist and you caused her lip to split open, is that right? >> that's incorrect. >> do you see those bruises on her face if. >> no. >> you don't see anything? >> no. i mean, i see this eye thing -- >> you -- you don't think this picture reflects any bruising or injuries or marks on nicole's face? >> no, i don't. >> what do you think this reflects? >> it reflects doing a movie that we're doing and we're doing makeup. >> really? that's makeup? she did that to pretend like she's beat up? really? >> he said that she was wearing makeup for a horror movie that they were -- >> i -- he had so many explaces. >> what'd you do to her? >> i wrestled her. >> what does that mean? >> it means i had my hands on her and i was trying to force her out of my bedroom. we wrestled. >> reporter: eventually simpson admits to hurting nicole, but won't

. >> reporter: the millennium homeowne homeowners associated hired dan petrocelli to litigate their casever the sinking skyscraper. the homeowners largely blame the poor design of the building for the problems. >> you do trust a builder to do the right thing and to do the safe thing, and it appears that that trust has been violated in this case. that's what we're going to vindicate. >> reporter: the hoa board hired petrocelli who in 1997 successfully represented the goldman family in the wrongful death civil suit against o.j. simpson and most recently represented president donald trump in several cases involving trump university. but some homeowners like the dodsons do not think petrocelli is the best lawyer for the case. >> we would definitely want to have a construction defect attorney, someone who's got the knowledge and the experience to be able to try this very complicated case. we're not looking for an attorney, and we don't believe an attorney that has a high-profile is going to win this case for us. >> reporter: dodson is in a group of 50 unit owners who filed a separate lawsuit

the homeowners association retained dan petrocelli for its lawsuit against the developer. millennium partners. petrocelli is best known for winning a judgment against o.j. simpson for the family of ron goldman. some of the residents of this luxury tower now say they're being kept in the dark. >> we don't know what the legal strategy is. why did they hire a defense attorney? over a construction defect attorney? maybe there's a plan there. i don't think the members of our hoa are stupid. i think they're smart, great people. it would be nice to know what the plan is. >> petrocelli had no comment on the concerns saying he was retained to get residents' money back. until recently the association was advising homeowners to hold off on a lawsuit pending the outcome of mediation talks. the high-end high-rise has been sinking and leaning for years. >>> the search for a former peruvian president suspected in the widespread bribery scandal comes to the bay area. authorities believe alejandro toledo is in san francisco. scheduled to be visiting a scholar at stanford. a peruvian judge

dan petrocelli represented trump in the trump university case that was settled.lls the crankal the millennium tower's developers have to pay their fair share. designers expected the millennium tower to sink 6 inches over the life of the building. it's already sunk 16 inches since 2005. >>> and you're looking live at the golden gate bridge this morning. look at those cross winds, look at the rain, sheets of rain, flying across the golden gate bridge at 34 to 45 miles per hour. you can see it just all pushing off into the bay so you got to be kafrm. it's really going to tug at you as you drive across that area. we've got winds gusting from 25 to 39 miles per hour across all of our neighborhoods to 49 on the peninsula near sfo and those winds will stay in the dangerous category up to 52 until noon today. and this entire area you see shaded in light blue, the rest of us, expect for the north bay valleys, in the wind advisory until 1:00 this afternoon so that was extended from 6:00 this morning to 1:00 so that's something different. you may not have known that since y

. >> reporter: the millennium homeowners association board hired dan petrocelli to litigate their case over the now infamous sinking skyscraper. the homeowners largely blame the poor design of the building for the problems. >> you do trust a builder to do the right thing and to do the safe thing. and it appears that that trust has been violated in this case, and that's what we're going to vindicate. >> reporter: the hoa board heerd petrocelli, who in 1997 successfully represented the goldman family in the wrongful death civil suit against o.j. simpson and most recently represented president donald trump in several cases involving trump university but some homeowners like the dodsons do not think petrocelli is the best lawyer for the case. >> we would definitely want to have a construction defect attorney, someone who's got the knowledge and the experience to be able to try this very complicated case. we're not looking for an attorney, and we don't believe in an attorney that has a high-profile is going to win this case for us. >> reporter: dodson is in a group of 50 unit owners who fil