[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Poor "juice" suffered a well deserved miserable and painful death... rest in hell.

LAS VEGAS, (April 10,2024) — O.J. Simpson, the wrongfully acquitted California murderer, former football star and actor, has died. He was 76.

A statement posted to social media by Simpson's family said he died of cancer Wednesday. Simpson's agent said he had prostate cancer.

"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren," the family's statement said.

Simpson was infamously acquitted in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, in a case that dominated headlines and TV screens for months. He was later found liable for their deaths by a jury in a civil trial.

David Cook, an attorney who has been seeking since 2008 to collect the civil judgment in the Goldman case, said he spoke with Fred Goldman, father of Ron, on Thursday about Simpson's death. Cook declined to say what Fred Goldman said or where he was.

"He died without penance," Cook said of Simpson. "We don't know what he has, where it is or who is in control. We will pick up where we are and keep going with it."

Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings in Los Angeles.

Live TV coverage of his arrest after a famous slow-speed chase marked a stunning fall from grace for the sports hero. 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.

"I'm not Black, I'm O.J.," he liked to tell friends.

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.

A 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.

A decade later, still shadowed by the California wrongful death judgment, 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.

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.

"I've basically spent a conflict-free life, you know," claimed Simpson, whose parole ended in late 2021.

Public fascination with Simpson never faded. Many debated if he had been punished in Las Vegas for his acquittal in Los Angeles. In 2016, he was the subject of both an FX miniseries and five-part ESPN documentary.

"I don't think most of America believes I did it," Simpson told The New York Times in 1995, a week after a jury determined he did not kill Brown and Goldman. "I've gotten thousands of letters and telegrams from people supporting me."

Twelve years later, following an outpouring of public outrage, Rupert Murdoch canceled a planned book by the News Corp-owned HarperCollins in which Simpson offered his hypothetical account of the killings. It was to be titled, "If I Did It."

Goldman's family, still doggedly pursuing the multimillion-dollar wrongful death judgment, won control of the manuscript. They retitled the book "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer."

"It's all blood money, and unfortunately I had to join the jackals," Simpson told The Associated Press at the time. He collected $880,000 in advance money for the book, paid through a third party.

"It helped me get out of debt and secure my homestead," he said.

Less than two months after losing the rights to the book, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas.

Simpson played 11 NFL seasons, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills, where he became known as "The Juice" on an offensive line known as "The Electric Company." He won four NFL rushing titles, rushed for 11,236 yards in his career, scored 76 touchdowns and played in five Pro Bowls. His best season was 1973, when he ran for 2,003 yards — the first running back to break the 2,000-yard rushing mark.

"I was part of the history of the game," he said years later, recalling that season. "If I did nothing else in my life, I'd made my mark."

Of course, Simpson went on to other fame.

One of the artifacts of his murder trial, the carefully tailored tan suit he wore when he was acquitted, was later donated and placed on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Simpson had been told the suit would be in the hotel room in Las Vegas, but it turned out it wasn't there.

Here's a list of DR threads related to the infamous Simpson, sorted by posting date:

Simpson Goldman Crime Scene Pictures

OJ Simpson Threatening Witness During Trial

Nicole Simpson's Gaping Neck Wound *She's Smiling with Her Neck!*

Nicole Simpson 911 Call About O.J. Simpson

Took a While, But, Karma is Getting, "The Juice"!

Photos of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman Crime Scene

Crime Scene Pictures From The Death of Ronald Goldman

OJ Simpson to Be Released from Prison in October

Nicole Simpson Ron Goldman Autopsy Reports, Crime Scene Diagrams and Photos

Uncensored OJ Simpson Crime Scene Photos

[WonderMomma]

Thank you HIGHTECH for all the links in your OP. Appreciate that.

[SimoneFlen']

Good riddance.

[marcos_69]

Well, that is good news.

[akham]

Will his funeral be live streamed? Can't wait to see his body (wearing gloves) rushed around LA in the back of a white Ford Bronco and down S Bundy ...

[akham]

Originally Posted by SimoneFlen' ↗

Good riddance.

Your comment is fitting, just like a glove.

[akham]

This tweet didn't age well.

[kellyhound]

"I don't think most of America believes I did it," Simpson told The New York Times in 1995, a week after a jury determined he did not kill Brown and Goldman. "I've gotten thousands of letters and telegrams from people supporting me."

Things changed.

[SimoneFlen']

Ahahaha!

[SkinnyFella]

He must be resting easy knowing his wife's killer is finally dead.