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Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) was an American football player and actor who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.
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Apr 11, 2024 · O.J. Simpson had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and received chemotherapy treatment before he died, Pro Football Hall of Fame President Jim Porter said in a statement Thursday, after the...
Apr 11, 2024 · O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star and broadcaster whose athletic achievements and fame were eclipsed by his 1995 trial in the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend...
Apr 11, 2024 · O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a televised trial that gripped the nation, has died of cancer, according to his family. He was 76.
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Simpson was ordered to surrender by 11 a.m. on June 17 but instead vanished. He was tracked down later that day when he made a call from his cell phone on the Santa Ana Freeway. The police pursued, leading to a nationally televised slow-speed chase of a white Ford Broncobelonging to ex-NFL player Al “A.C.” Cowlings, who was at the wheel while Simps...
Simpson’s criminal trial for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, dubbed the “Trial of the Century,”commenced with opening statements on January 24, 1995. The jury was sequestered for nearly nine months, longer than any jury had been to date in California history. The high-profile murder suspect assembled a legal “dream team” of lawyers that ...
Simpson planned to publish the ghostwritten If I Did It, a hypothetical account of how he would have committed the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldmanmurders, in late 2006. But after a publishing deal with HarperCollins fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book’s rights to the Goldman family. The family added commentary to the work...
Around the time of If I Did It’s originally planned publication, Simpson taped an accompanying interview with HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan. However, it was shelved due to the victims’ families concerns that Simpson would find a way to profit from its broadcast. In March 2018, the footage finally aired as part of a two-hour special titled O....
In June 2016, ABC debuted O.J.: Made in America, a documentary aired as a five-part miniseries that examined Simpson’s athletic career, murder trial and acquittal, and popularity in American culture. The project won the 2017 Academy Awardfor Best Documentary.
The saga of the 1994 murders and his subsequent criminal trial returned to the spotlight for the 2016 first season of the series American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. The series featured actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in the role of the fallen football star. The People v. O.J. Simpson was critically acclaimed, winning nine Emmy Awards including...
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Apr 11, 2024 · O.J. Simpson, who ran to fame on the football field, made fortunes as an all-American in movies, television and advertising, and was acquitted of killing his former wife and her friend in a 1995...
Apr 11, 2024 · A merican football running back O.J. Simpson, 76, died on Wednesday surrounded by his children and grandchildren after losing his battle with cancer. Simpson's family announced the news on X.
