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OJ Simpson, a former football star later 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. His attorney confirmed Simpson's death Thursday morning.
Simpson was the USC Trojans tailback during the late 1960s. He would go on to play with the Buffalo Bills.
The public was mesmerized by his “trial of the century” on live TV. His case sparked debates on race, gender, domestic abuse, celebrity justice and police misconduct. It would go on to be dubbed the "first true reality show".
A criminal court jury found him not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to family members of Brown and Goldman.
Simpson's Vegas Ties
A decade later, Simpson led five men he barely knew into a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a cramped Las Vegas hotel room. Two men with Simpson had guns. A jury convicted Simpson of armed robbery and other felonies.
After serving nine years in prison, Simpson and the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan settled a lawsuit in 2021 alleging that unnamed employees defamed him by telling a celebrity news site he had been banned from the property in November 2017 for being drunk and disruptive.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
