Former football player O.J. Simpson dies at 76.

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Former football player O.J. Simpson dies at 76

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." He added, "It looks like I beat it." Simpson didn't specify the nature of the cancer.

Then in February 2024, a Las Vegas television station reported that Simpson, then 76, was again undergoing treatment for an unspecified cancer. Simpson himself posted a video on X that day, denying rumors that he was in hospice care, though he did not otherwise confirm or deny reports that he was ill. Two days later in another video update on X, Simpson thanked those people he said had reached out to him, adding "My health is good. I mean, obviously I'm dealing with some issues but I think I'm just about over it."

Orenthal James Simpson, nicknamed "The Juice," broke records as a college and professional football player, and extended his celebrity and fortune as a sportscaster, a movie and television actor, and as a corporate spokesman, most notably for Hertz rental cars. All that changed on June 12, 1994, when Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were brutally stabbed to death outside of the former's home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. Within days, police announced their intention to arrest the former football star for the murders.

Five days after the killings, 95 million Americans watched as Simpson's white Ford Bronco – with longtime friend Al Cowlings at the wheel and Simpson in the back seat with a handgun, threatening to kill himself – led police on a 60-mile, low-speed televised chase through Los Angeles that lasted some two hours. Simpson ultimately surrendered to police and stood trial for the murders. In October 1995, after 11 months from jury selection to verdict, Simpson was acquitted in a trial that was televised daily and became an international sensation.

Twelve years later, Simpson was arrested in September 2007 after he led a group of men into a Las Vegas hotel and casino to steal, at gunpoint, what he claims was his own sports memorabilia. Simpson was charged with a number of felony counts, including kidnapping and armed robbery. The following year, he was found guilty and sentenced to up to 33 years in prison. Simpson was released on parole on Oct. 1, 2017. O.J. Simpson is survived by four children: Arnelle and Jason, from his first marriage, and Sydney and Justin, from his marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson.

 

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Orenthal James Simpson, nicknamed "The Juice"​

 

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O.J. Simpson died owing over $100 million to the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson​

• O.J. Simpson owed a huge sum to the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, reports say.
• In 1996, he was ordered to pay $33.5 million after being found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit.
• That amount has ballooned to over $100 million due to interest accrued in the last 27 years.

O.J. Simpson died owing millions to the family of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson following a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997, an attorney for the Goldman family has said, according to reports. The ex-football star and actor who was acquitted of the murders Ron Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson at his highly publicized trail in 1995 died of cancer aged 76 on April 10.

In 1997, a jury in a civil trial found him responsible for "willingly and wrongfully" causing their deaths. It ordered him to pay $33.5 million, which has ballooned to $114 million due to unpaid interest charges, a Goldman family lawyer told People. But as of 2022, Simpson had only paid a tiny fraction of the sum, around $132,000 to the Goldman family, according to The New York Times.

"He died without penance," the Goldman family attorney David Cook told People. Simpson paid so little because he denied having sources of income or property that could be targeted by the court settlement, Christopher Melcher, a lawyer in California who specializes in family law, told The Times.

Simpson earned $400,000 a year from NFL pensions, the Screen Actors Guild, and other sources, but they were protected from seizure, The Times reported. According to the Goldman family lawyer, depending on the wishes of Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, his team may pursue the estate and assets left behind by Simpson to collect the debt owed. "We need to get a lawyer or a number of lawyers who deal with this, very smart people," Cook said, per People. "It's a big deal."

Most of the money that the Goldman family has received from Simpson has been through the sales of a book Simpson wrote about the deaths, said Cook. As Business Insider previously reported, in 2006, almost a decade after the civil trial, Simpson announced he would release a book, originally titled "O.J. Simpson: If I did it, Here's How It Happened." However, it was quickly scrapped following public outcry.

 

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Simpson was a record-setting football star during 11 years as a running back in the NFL and became a movie actor, sportscaster and television advertising pitchman before he was famously acquitted of criminal charges alleging he stabbed his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, to death in 1994 in Los Angeles. The proceedings in California in 1996 became known as the "Trial of the Century.

 

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O.J. Simpson Spent Final Days With Family in Hospice: He ‘Wanted A Couple More Years,’ Attorney Says (Exclusive)​

O.J. Simpson final days included saying goodbye to his loved ones before dying at home as he planned, according to his attorney Malcolm LaVergne. And one of his last wishes was to have more time to spend with them, but it wasn’t meant to be. "The only thing I heard him [say] at the end, he just wanted a couple more years,” LaVergne exclusively recalled to Us Weekly on Tuesday, April 16. “He wanted to see his oldest grandchild go to school. That would’ve been icing on the cake for him. But he never got there. But he had everything else. “The thing that made O.J. the happiest at the end was that he was a grandfather and he got to see, spend time and play with his grandkids.” But at 76, those years he longed for were cut short. “On April 5, the doctor said, ‘He’s not long for this world. It is finite,’” added LaVergne, about the end of Simpson’s life. “People started flying in from all over, friends, families.” The lawyer, who’s also the executor of Simpson’s estate, remembered people from Florida, Colorado and Canada coming to “pay their final respects” before Simpson died on April 10 at the age of 76.

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OJ Simpson cremated in Las Vegas​

LaVergne said Tuesday he visited Simpson just before Easter at the country club home where Simpson leased southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, and described Simpson as "awake, alert and chilling" sitting on a couch, drinking a beer and "just catching up on the news." On April 5, a doctor told LaVergne that Simpson was "transitioning," as the attorney described it, and by last week Simpson only had strength to ask for water and to choose to watch a TV golf tournament instead of a tennis match. "On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer," his family then announced on X on April 11. "He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren."

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Ford Bronco used in O. J. Simpson chase could sell for $1.5M​

The Bronco chase gripped the nation, as O.J.’s fans poured onto the streets to cheer the suspect on. It remains one of the most famous national news incidents in America, and practically on its own spawned modern-day 24-hour news coverage. The infamous vehicle is now owned by Simpson’s former agent, Michael Gilbert, and two friends of Cowlings, and they’re looking to sell. As they explained to Cllt, though, they were planning to do so even before Simpson’s April 10 death from prostate cancer. “Before O.J. passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it’s the 30th anniversary,” Gilbert told the outlet. “Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?”

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nicole brown simpson​

Nicole Brown Simpson (nee Brown; May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the second wife o American football player O.J. Simpso. Brown met Simpson in 1977 and they married in 1985, five years after Simpson had retired from professional football. Their marriage lasted seven years and they had a daughter and a son. Brown was emotionally, verbally, and physically abused by Simpson; she called the police multiple times to report his abuse but he was only arrested once, in 1989, pleading no contest to spousal abuse. Brown dropped the charges after her parents encouraged her to reconcile with Simpson.

 

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How I Did It: Judith Regan Remembers the Day O.J. Simpson (Almost) Confessed​

In an exclusive for The Hollywood Reporter, the A-list book editor writes about her harrowing five-hour, on-camera conversation with Simpson in 2006, so controversial it didn’t make it onto the airwaves until 2018 (and in the meantime, nearly destroyed her career).

If O.J. Simpson had played football in the ’60s for Bay Shore High School and taken Harold Anderson’s humanities class, he would have known this. Mr. Anderson would have lovingly encouraged O.J. to play less football and read more Shakespeare, which may have led to a better outcome for O.J. in the long run. O.J. could run fast, but Shakespeare and Mr. Anderson would have made it crystal clear to him that no matter how fast you run, you can’t hide, because there are ghosts and consequences. I am thinking, in particular, of that popular out, damn spot couple who had it all, Mr. and Mrs. Lady Macbeth.

Ghosts and consequences became amply apparent to me on that fall day in 2006, when O.J. came to confess. We all have our own styles of confession. When I was a very nice young Catholic girl who obeyed and did not commit sins, I was forced to sit in a booth and whisper my sins to a priest behind a screen. This was called going to confession. At the age of 8, I did not have much to say, so I made up elaborate sins for the priest, which I think he considered a sin because he gave me a mile-long list of prayers to say as penance. Now, I love to confess and confess to everyone all day long. In fact, this is my confession.

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O.J. Simpson’s Credit Card Is Being Sold in an Online Auction​

Bids are being taken for the late Hall of Fame football player’s expired Bank of America card until April 25

Less than two weeks after O.J. Simpson died on April 10 at age 76, the Hall of Fame football player’s belongings are starting to go up for sale. According to TMZ, sports memorabilia collector Jonathan Lepore originally bought an expired Bank of America Visa business credit card belonging to the late football player on eBay last summer for $70. Lepore had planned to gift the card to his father — a former friend of Simpson's in the 1980s and early 1990s — but decided to put it up for sale after his death on April 25, TMZ added. According to the website Goldin — where the auction is being held — 37 bidders have gotten the price of the credit card up to $225 as of April 20, and the auction is set to end on April 25. The auction's description reads: "The card itself displays mild peripheral wear and small spots of light discoloration. The reverse side authorized signature section has not been signed, and the card expired in Jan. 2023.”

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