OJ Simpson Passes Away

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https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/oj-si...d-dies-cancer/

https://x.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1778430029350707380

Just announced

[Dude111]

He blew up and went into a rage and had ppl killed.....


Sad he didnt ever admit things.......

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O.J. Simpson dies: Football superstar, actor, sports broadcaster and accused double murderer was 76

Simpson's death, on Wednesday in Las Vegas from cancer, was announced by his family on his Twitter/X account, from which he last posted a video from two months ago today. A Las Vegas TV station reported in February that Simpson was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, prompting Simpson to deny on Feb. 9 that he had entered hospice care. Simpson died two months shy of the 30th anniversary of the June 12, 1994 double murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman that resulted in his arrest, the "Trial of the Century," his acquittal and ostracization. "On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer," read his family's statement. "He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace." Simpson lived one of the most scrutinized lives in American history. In 2016, Simpson was the subject of the nearly eight-hour Oscar- and Emmy-winning ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America from director Ezra Edelman. That same year, Simpson was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in FX's Emmy-winning The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Simpson's arrest on June 17, 1994 after a surreal slow-speed police chase riveted the nation and caused NBC to disrupt its coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The chase was also the subject of a 2010 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, titled June 17th, 1994. O.J. Simpson first emerged as a national celebrity as a running back on the USC Trojans college football team in the 1967 season, becoming a media darling with TV appearances with Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Joey Bishop, Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin. In 1968, Simpson won the Heisman Trophy. After he was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1969, Simpson became a TV pitchman in a number of commercials, most famously for Hertz rental car. He was a presenter at the 1975 Oscars, appeared with Sonny and Cher on their variety show in 1974, played a character named “Killer” on The Flip Wilson Show in 1974, guest-starred as himself opposite Lucille Ball on Here's Lucy in 1973 and hosted SNL in 1978. Simpson also became an actor, most famously in The Naked Gun movie trilogy and with guest-starring roles on shows and miniseries including Medical Center, Roots, Cade's County and In the Heat of the Night. Simpson also starred as a running back-turned-coach on HBO's 1984-1991 comedy series 1st & Ten and TV movies including CBS' A Killing Affair (opposite Elizabeth Montgomery) in 1977 and two Goldie and the Boxer movies for NBC in 1979 and 1981. Months before his arrest in 1994, Simpson had completed filming on the pilot for NBC action series Frogmen. In retirement, Simpson stayed in the football world by working as a sports commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football and The NFL on NBC. In 1997, Simpson lost a civil trial brought on by Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman's families. In 2007, Simpson was arrested after he and a group of men broke into a Las Vegas hotel room of some sports memorabilia dealers and took a bunch of collectibles. In 2017, Simpson was released and became a fixture on Twitter/X. "Over the years, the story of O.J. Simpson generated a tide of tell-all books, movies, studies and debate over questions of justice, race relations and celebrity in a nation that adores its heroes, especially those cast in rags-to-riches stereotypes, but has never been comfortable with its deeper contradictions," writes The New York Times' Robert D. McFadden. The Washington Post's Rick Maese, Glenn Frankel and Matt Schudel write that Simpson's arrest in 1994 "was a stunning downfall for a man who had risen from a San Francisco slum to become one of the greatest running backs in football history, an actor in more than 20 Hollywood movies, a corporate pitchman — sprinting through airports for Hertz Rent-a-Car in his most memorable television commercials — and a TV sports commentator. He had good looks, a warm smile and a poised manner that made him a popular sports media personality long after his playing days had ended. The double-murder charges shattered his high-achieving and amiable reputation."

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For O.J. Simpson, TV was a spotlight, a microscope and a mirror

In O.J. Simpson's life and trials, television was a spotlight, a microscope and a mirror.

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O.J. Simpson If I Did It interviewer Judith Regan recounts her harrowing five-hour, on-camera conversation with Simpson in 2006

Celebrity book editor Regan, whose 2006 interview was supposed to air on Fox but was scrapped due to backlash, saw the light of day on the same network in 2018 as O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession. "As part of his contract, O.J. agreed to do one major TV interview — I wanted his confession on videotape so he could not deny it," Regan recounts in a lengthy Hollywood Reporter essay in wake of Simpson’s death at age 76. "We kept the project under wraps but shared the manuscript in an ironclad confidentiality agreement with Barbara Walters. She was champing at the bit to do the interview. Champing! ABC said yes, and she was ready to go. Every major journalist wanted that scoop, but a few were happy to badmouth it when they didn’t get it, envy being one of the key motivating features of bad characters in great literature. The deal with Walters was done, but then, boom, out of the blue, she canceled and disappeared without a trace...Anyway, Fox stepped in, desperately needing something big for sweeps, and days later, instead of Babs, I found myself sitting in this warehouse in Florida with very lovely hair and makeup done, my stiletto heels pointed toward Him, that top-notch five-camera crew encircling us. Everyone in the room had signed confidentiality agreements."

[Dude111]

He should be removed from the Hall of Fame.....

No one who has something like this done is a good person!

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October 3, 1995: O.J. Simpson Is Acquitted of Murder

October 3, 1995, 30 years ago: Former football star, sportscaster and actor O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, at the Los Angeles County Courthouse in downtown L.A.

In hindsight, the evidence is overwhelming. But the verdict was correct: "Not Guilty." Why? Because a conviction can only be achieved if all 12 jurors are convinced that the prosecution has proven the defendant's guilt, as the saying goes, beyond a reasonable doubt.

As soon as prosecutor Christopher Darden put Detective Mark Fuhrman, who'd been part of the LAPD's investigative team at the murder scene, on the stand, the case against O.J. was blown. Fuhrman had tampered with evidence, and evidence of his racism was presented.

He was taken apart on the stand by F. Lee Bailey, a member of O.J.'s legal "Dream Team," who had previously become famous for defending Dr. Sam Sheppard, the basis for the TV show The Fugitive; Albert DeSalvo, accused of being the Boston Strangler; Army Captain Ernest Medina, for his role in the 1968 My Lai Massacre in Vietnam; Santo Trafficante Jr., allegedly the kingpin of organized crime in Florida, often linked by conspiracy theorists to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and Patty Hearst, for her role in a 1974 bank robbery.

Moreover, if Fuhrman had not been put on the stand, the bloody gloves would never have been put into evidence, and we never would have found out that, for whatever reason, they didn't fit. That's reasonable doubt, right there. The leader of the Dream Team, Johnnie Cochran, was right: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." While morally wrong, the verdict was legally correct.

The Dream Team also included Robert Shapiro, who had previously defended other Los Angeles-based athletes, including former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry on drug and tax charges; Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor who had previously defended Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson on rape charges, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley on tax charges, televangelist Jim Bakker on both, and socialite Claus von Bulow for murdering his wife; Barry Scheck, director of The Innocence Project; and Robert Kardashian, who had left the legal profession in disillusionment, founded a music company, and only returned to it because O.J. was a close friend.

Both Shapiro and Kardashian later publicly doubted O.J.'s innocence, and the relationship between the Dream Teamers reached a point where Shapiro admitted in an interview that he would never speak to either Bailey or Dershowitz again.

O.J. regained his freedom. But a civil suit was brought by the Brown and Goldman families. With a different standard -- only a preponderance of the evidence is necessary to decide, although the jury must still be unanimous on that -- he was found liable for the victims' deaths, and forced into a whopping fine.

He lost the estate at 360 North Rockingham Avenue, about 2 miles northwest of the murder scene. He lost his trophies, including the Heisman. He lost his TV and film residuals. Even any income he would get from books (he did write one, cheekily and cruelly titled If I Did It) and any memorabilia shows he was hired for (and he was hired for some) would go to the Brown and Goldman families. Pretty much the only income that legally couldn't be touched was his NFL pension.

O.J. moved away from his beloved L.A., to Miami, where the stigma against him wasn't as strong. In Miami, pretty much the only thing that will make people hate you is support for the Communist regime in Cuba.

But O.J. did not act like an innocent man who wanted to rebuild his life after his exoneration. He continued to act like a guilty man who wanted to rub in your face the fact that he got away with it. He found income and ways to keep it that the Browns and the Goldmans couldn't do anything about. He appeared in rap videos, in character as a gangsta or a pimp. And, just as Donald Trump did instead of his job, he played lots and lots of golf in Florida, instead of doing what he promised he would do: "Look for the real killer."

On September 13, 2007, O.J. led a group of men into a room at the Palace Station Hotel in Las Vegas, where sports memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong was staying. They pulled guns on Fromong, and stole O.J.-related items. O.J. later said the items had been stolen from him, and denied that he and the others broke in, and that they had weapons.

On October 3, 2008, exactly 13 years after his acquittal in Los Angeles, O.J. was convicted in Las Vegas. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison. On July 20, 2017, the Nevada Parole Board decided to grant him parole. He was released on October 1, having served nearly 9 years for armed robbery. That's more than many killers serve for murder.

Robert Kardashian died of cancer in 2003, only 59 years old. He did not live to see his daughters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé, or their half-sisters Kendall and Kyle Jenner, become famous. He did, however, put the older sisters to work in his music company, so they learned a work ethic: They became hard-partiers, but they were never "heirheads."

Johnnie Cochran died in 2005, F. Lee Bailey in 2021. O.J. died in Las Vegas on April 10, 2024. He was 76 years old. As of October 3, 2025, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, Barry Scheck, Marcia Clark, Christopher Darden and Judge Lance Ito are still alive. Dershowitz came under fire as part of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.