OJ Simpson, the US sportsman who was acquitted of killing his wife in one of the most dramatic trials of the 1990s, has died, his family says.
OJ Simpson, the decorated US football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76."On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer," the Simpson family posted on the former sportsman's X account.
He had seemed to transcend racial barriers as the star Trojans tailback for college football's powerful University of Southern California in the late 1960s, as a rental car ad pitchman rushing through airports in the late 1970s, and as the husband of a blonde and blue-eyed high school homecoming queen in the 1980s.The moment OJ Simpson was found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Imprisoned at age 61, he served nine years in a remote northern Nevada prison, including a stint as a gym janitor. He was not contrite when he was released on parole in October 2017. The parole board heard him insist yet again that he was only trying to retrieve sports memorabilia and family heirlooms stolen from him after his criminal trial in Los Angeles.
OJ Simpson listens to Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell as she reads her decision to hold him over for trial on July 8, 1994, in connection with the June 12 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Orenthal James Simpson was born July 9, 1947, in San Francisco, where he grew up in government-subsidised housing projects.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled at City College of San Francisco for a year and a half before transferring to the University of Southern California for the spring 1967 semester.
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