O.J. Simpson

O.J. Simpson, football legend acquitted of notorious killings, dies at 76

6:42pm April 11, 2024

by Russell Lewis

Simpson died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer, his family said. His celebrity turned to infamy three decades ago when he was accused and then acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend.

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O.J. Simpson attends a parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Center in 2017 in Nevada.

O.J. Simpson is a 'completely free man' after being granted early release from parole

1:16pm December 15, 2021

by Scott Neuman

A lawyer for the former NFL star and actor, who was acquitted in the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend, said Simpson's "a completely free man now" after ending his parole for armed robbery.

Murder defendant O.J. Simpson grimaces in July 1995 as he tries on one of the leather gloves prosecutors say he wore the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered. The trial transfixed the nation with a tale of a football hero

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With Parole, A New Round Of O.J. Obsession Begins

7:29am July 21, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The athlete, celebrity and murder suspect was the focus of an intensely covered trial, and two recent TV series that set him at the center of America's diciest topics: race, wealth, justice and fame.

O.J. Simpson returns to Rich Stadium for his induction into the Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame in 1980.

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New 5-Part Series Considers The 'Perfect Perversity' Of The O.J. Simpson Case

4:26pm June 14, 2016

"He was acquitted of the crime he was guilty of and convicted of a crime he's innocent of," says legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. He and director Ezra Edelman discuss O.J.: Made in America.

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Los Angeles Police Capt. Andy Neiman announced in March that a knife possibly linked to the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife was undergoing forensic tests. Those tests have determined that it was not involved in the crime.

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Knife Purportedly Found At O.J. Simpson's Former Home Is Not Murder Weapon

8:43pm April 01, 2016

by Laura Wagner

LA detectives have determined that a knife turned in recently as possible evidence was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

Sarah Paulson plays prosecutor Marcia Clark and Sterling K. Brown plays fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden in the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

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Sarah Paulson Strives To 'Get It Right' As O.J. Simpson Prosecutor

4:36pm March 10, 2016

The actress set out to portray Marcia Clark in a "truthful way" in FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson. "I read, watched and listened to any and everything I could get my hands on," Paulson says.

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O.J. Simpson, flanked by defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey (left) and Johnnie Cochran Jr., reacts as he is found not guilty on Oct. 3, 1995, of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

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LA Police Testing Knife Allegedly Found On O.J. Simpson's Old Property

1:49pm March 04, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

When O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1995, the absence of the weapon prompted much speculation. Police are now testing a knife allegedly found years ago and kept by a retired police officer.