O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted
of murder, dies at 76
ABC News,
by
Emily Shapiro
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/11/2024 10:58:30 AM
O.J. Simpson, the former football great who was accused of and ultimately acquitted of the brutal 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, has died, according to his family. He was 76.
"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. 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," a statement from his family said.
In May 2023, Simpson posted a video on X, then known as Twitter, revealing that he had recently "caught cancer" and "had to do the whole chemo thing."
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I always sort of liked OJ even though he was a killah.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissNan 4/11/2024 11:00:55 AM (No. 1697243)
May he now be held accountable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/11/2024 11:00:59 AM (No. 1697244)
The world is a slightly better place now.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Scottyboy 4/11/2024 11:03:20 AM (No. 1697248)
Damn!
….. and he never did catch the real killer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/11/2024 11:04:37 AM (No. 1697250)
I hope he saw the faces of Nicole Brown & Ron Goldman right before he went to hell. How he managed to dodge conviction for their murders...talk about black privilege!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/11/2024 11:07:41 AM (No. 1697253)
OJ... say hello to Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Jeffery Dahmer for me. Oh and could you hold a place for Joe Biden... he'll be there soon enough.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/11/2024 11:09:24 AM (No. 1697255)
Before he revealed his dark side, O.J. Simpson was admired by essentially everyone. He appeared with Arnold Palmer in Hertz commercials, played Nordberg in the Naked Gun movies, for a time was part of the world record 4x110 yards relay team (with Earl McCullough, Fred Kuller, and Lenox Miller), in addition to being among the NFL's greatest halfbacks. Great athlete, great personality, but ...
About twenty years ago after returning from a Crystal Cruise to the Caribbean, my closest friend joined ten of his shipmates at a five star restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale, and guess who came to dinner? O.J. and his pretty white girlfriend, invited by someone in the party. It was an interesting night. Nobody mentioned Nicole and Ron. O.J. joked and smiled with everyone, but when he attacked his steak with the steak knife, everyone was on alert. Ya never know.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/11/2024 11:13:33 AM (No. 1697256)
What I remember about OJ's case is the number of intelligent black folks who genuinely believed that he was innocent. If you feel sympathy for him please look at the autopsy photos of the two people he killed..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/11/2024 11:29:50 AM (No. 1697270)
Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were unavailable for comment.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
vhs68 4/11/2024 11:30:12 AM (No. 1697272)
The Juice is squeezed.............
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/11/2024 11:34:59 AM (No. 1697275)
Once, after the trial, I was on Buvndy Drive and stopped to have a look at the place where the murders took place. No street light nearby. It would have beern very dark at night. Heavily screened along the front of the property by hedges grown tall. A narrow entrance walkway fenced along bothnside with chain link and an unusual double gate. One would have had to go through one gate, walk a few steps, then go through another. There was a tree adjacent to the space within the gates. That is where he got Ron by surprise as he returned Nicole's glasses from the restaurant. OJ was stalking Nicole. Ron was caught up in that that night.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/11/2024 11:35:46 AM (No. 1697276)
he and rodney king did WONDERS for hurting race relations..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/11/2024 11:36:00 AM (No. 1697277)
Correction: Bundy Drive
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Roads 4/11/2024 11:36:09 AM (No. 1697278)
The gloves didn't fit, because they were patent leather. One thing everyone knows, who has ever owned a pair knows is, you can not get them wet, they will shrink 2 sizes. OJ's were soaked in blood and shrank 2 sizes like they all do. Prosecution wasn't smart enough to figure that one out.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 4/11/2024 11:49:57 AM (No. 1697287)
#8, ask those intelligent africans why his DNA was found at Nicole's residence and Nicole's DNA was found at his residence.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/11/2024 11:52:11 AM (No. 1697290)
Another strange tale of earth life has come to a conclusion. Perhaps he's on to the Bigger Picture.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/11/2024 11:52:23 AM (No. 1697291)
#14. Great point. Not surprised the jury didn't know, but I've never understood why the prosecution let it slide.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/11/2024 11:52:49 AM (No. 1697292)
Good riddance of this murdering SOB.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/11/2024 11:56:24 AM (No. 1697296)
DH and I were on a vacay to California, was in the neighborhood so DH looked for Bundy drive. Hard to find since the street sign was moved back from the street a little. The condo had plywood in the front but someone had made a hole in it so you could look in. I don't remember doing that. Drove by OJ's place and was surprised that my street and yard in St. Charles, MO was both larger than his 'estate.' He could also say hello to Fat Ted.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
broken01 4/11/2024 12:03:58 PM (No. 1697304)
I still remember the day that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were killed, and he was on that long White Bronco chase. I was on leave in WVA after coming back from a 6-month Naval deployment. My wife woke me up because the tv was on CBS. Then came the trial with all of the characters and we all know what happened after that. I also remember Orenthal James Simpson in The Naked NFL and those Hertz car rental commercials. Cancer is just awful and I don't wish it on anyone. May he finally be at peace and my sincere condolences to his family.
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Not Bundy..... It was Rockingham. Rockingham got blocked off because of all the looky-loos at the scene of the murders.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
broken01 4/11/2024 12:05:25 PM (No. 1697307)
The Naked Gun movies.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/11/2024 12:08:59 PM (No. 1697308)
Justice at last. Death the great equalizer. But let's not forget he died in a clean bed, surrounded by medical professionals and his family and perhaps some special friends. He wasn't lying on the concrete or leaned up against a tree with his life blood flowing from his body.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
konocti95 4/11/2024 12:12:15 PM (No. 1697312)
Now that he's dead, do the Goldman's get to collect the court judgment?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 4/11/2024 12:13:33 PM (No. 1697313)
Remember the "Dancing Ito's" on Jay Leno??
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 4/11/2024 12:19:59 PM (No. 1697319)
My condolences to Khloe Kardashian
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/11/2024 12:27:23 PM (No. 1697333)
The day of the infamous slow speed Bronco chase, I recorded a six hour VCR which has been hiding in a closet for the last twenty years, one that included everything important that happened that day. The tape is labeled with something like "Nordberg! NORDBERG! What have you done? Frank Drebbin is coming after you." Someday my heirs will see that tape.
I had heard the 911 call from Nicole two years before. O.J. could be heard yelling in the background, and what he was yelling was not nice. His (then) wife was frightened for her life. In retrospect, she should have been. That news report woke me up to the fact that O.J. might do the unthinkable. Then he did. Same as many Americans, I watched a lot of that trial. It would have been a mistrial if I had been on the jury. The evidence all pointed to O.J., because he did it. The jurors were moral cowards. Johnnie Cochran struck me as a bull artist.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/11/2024 12:30:42 PM (No. 1697337)
#14, I remember reading that OJ had arthritis in his hands and was taking medication for it. Cochran had him quit taking the meds in the days leading up to the gloves being brought into the trial. OJ’s hands had swollen up due to the lack of meds and, presto! The gloves didn’t fit.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
vinegrower 4/11/2024 12:33:11 PM (No. 1697339)
In the mid 70's I was a bridesmaid in a friends wedding. At the rehearsal dinner the conversation some how got around to OJ Simpson's football career. Everyone in the wedding party had gone to high school in San Francisco, except me. The best man, the grooms brother, was the same age as OJ. He started talking about OJ and all the trouble he had been in while he was in high school and every body in the group knew about it but me. They all couldn't believe how whitewashed OJ's reputation had become. They said he was always in trouble with the cops, stealing cars, robbery, all around bad guy. Even in high school he got away with it because he was a star football player and came from a disadvantaged home. I was shocked, I had no idea. I wasn't totally surprised when he was arrested for murder.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/11/2024 12:38:59 PM (No. 1697341)
"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. 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…”
Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman could not be reached for comment.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
kiwinews 4/11/2024 12:40:34 PM (No. 1697343)
And Hell is the richer for it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
garyhope 4/11/2024 12:43:49 PM (No. 1697346)
Good riddance to bad, bad murderous rubbish.
The Devil in Hell awaits his arrival with glee..
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/11/2024 12:48:43 PM (No. 1697347)
Sidenotes -
"The brother was acquitted." - conversation killer jackarse Tyrus
"I caught cancer." - OJ (consider what that implies)
The Innocence Project - Barry Scheck's bastardization of science, law and justice
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/11/2024 12:52:02 PM (No. 1697348)
Re: glubs don’t fitz…. Try this your self: take a pair of gloves that fit your hand and tense all the muscles in your hand. You will be able to perfectly recreate the farce OJ fabricated in front of the jury.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kono 4/11/2024 12:53:02 PM (No. 1697351)
Amen to observation in #14. Plus, freeze the frames where on the video he did the courtroom try-on, and you might notice that the surgical gloves that he put on first (to go under the leather gloves) were only pulled down to the first knuckle past the palm, not all the way to the palm. The surgical gloves blocked the leather gloves from going all the way on, even if the shrunken glove hadn't done that, already. The whole scene was very carefully compromised..
If it fits? You lying sh__s...
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
cartcart 4/11/2024 12:54:26 PM (No. 1697352)
At the judgement bar, he will say “I was found not guilty!” His former wife and Ron Goldman are likely witnesses.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/11/2024 12:58:01 PM (No. 1697354)
A friend of mine dated Simpson in about ‘79 or ‘80. It didn’t last long and when asked why she broke up with him she said, “He was rough” and conveyed the idea that he was an undesirable human being and not at all a good man.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/11/2024 1:01:07 PM (No. 1697355)
I'll never forgive him....for bringing "Kardashians" into the pubic eye.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
mifla 4/11/2024 1:41:42 PM (No. 1697367)
Christ warned people that if you live a life centered upon yourself, you already have your reward.
That being said, I will pray for him. He desperately needs it.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
dolphin 4/11/2024 1:43:03 PM (No. 1697369)
After hearing that guy confess to all that "nudging" I wonder about everything now. Did they "nudge" this somehow? I'm not saying he was perfect or even innocent, but he was one of the African American actors who crossed over into white movies. I'm sure it's all been going on at least that long.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/11/2024 1:43:57 PM (No. 1697371)
What will he say in his defense before the Throne?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
john56 4/11/2024 1:52:43 PM (No. 1697374)
Well, the decisions concerning OJ are now far above my pay grade. Good luck, Juice. You'll need it.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
snapper451 4/11/2024 2:06:29 PM (No. 1697382)
A great day for Satan, as he gets a dynamic new addition.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 4/11/2024 2:07:31 PM (No. 1697383)
Just rewards
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/11/2024 2:15:58 PM (No. 1697388)
Re the leather gloves, any of us who wore white kid gloves when ladies did so, and had to periodically wash them, knew that they shrank as they dried. Got stiff. Thery had to be worked/massaged, palms, backs, and finger by finger, to get them softened and back to size. That was a major prosecution miss.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/11/2024 2:19:44 PM (No. 1697390)
I hope it was a slow painful cancer.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
jinx 4/11/2024 2:20:30 PM (No. 1697391)
always thought Robert Kardashian helped him hide the murder weapon.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/11/2024 3:04:35 PM (No. 1697424)
Blacks besmirched forever their race in letting this man off for a double murder.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/11/2024 4:18:21 PM (No. 1697458)
I believe OJ murdered those two people, but OJ just like all of us will be judged on in Christ or not in Christ. We're all sinners.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/11/2024 4:52:17 PM (No. 1697473)
To add further to #48. At the time of the trial I walked every day with AA work friend. One day I said something about the trial I had seen the night before and she said 'I have seen nothing that would make me think he was guilty.' I knew then the trial was not to be a subject of conversation on our walks.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/11/2024 6:12:30 PM (No. 1697505)
Lucifer: OJ Welcome to Hell, your cell beneath the cesspool is ready.
OJ: But I'm Black....
Lucifer: And your point is?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Miceal 4/11/2024 6:25:54 PM (No. 1697517)
RIP, Juice...
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/11/2024 6:40:23 PM (No. 1697523)
Juice, I hope you didn't do the crime. But the Man Upstairs knows. Best fortunes at the pearly gates to Heaven.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Scribelus 4/11/2024 6:43:30 PM (No. 1697526)
Dead OJ! Has a ring to it.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/11/2024 7:00:00 PM (No. 1697535)
AMF
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 4/11/2024 7:17:09 PM (No. 1697545)
The Grim Reaper found the real killer, at last
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/11/2024 8:19:50 PM (No. 1697592)
Especially today, let us revisit (the late) Norm Macdonald's slew of O.J. jokes that got him sacked from his SNL Weekend Update gig. One of the NBC bigwigs was a big buddy of Simpson, and didn't take Norm's pokes at O.J. with equanimity. Yeah, it cost Norm, but ... here we have thirty minutes of O.J. jokes. Rest in peace, Norm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsH2snswXXU&t=1129s (Thirty minutes of Norm Macdonald's O.J. jokes)
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