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Simpson murder case (officially The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson ) was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor O. Simpson was tried and acquitted on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, slashing deaths of. It was one of the most gruesome and notorious crimes of the century. In June 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were left slaughtered in pools of their own blood, reportedly by the hands of Brown Simpson’s former husband, O.J. Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American attorney and businessman. He gained national recognition as O. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial.
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Simpson with his daughter, Sydney, in 1986. Photo by Alan Light. | |
Date of birth | July 9, 1947 |
Place of birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Position(s) | RB |
College | USC |
NFL Draft | 1969 / Round 1/ Pick 1 |
Pro Bowls | 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 |
Awards | 1968 Heisman Trophy 1968 Maxwell Award 1972 UPI AFL-AFC POY 1972 Pro Bowl MVP 1973 UPI AFL-AFC POY 1973 AP Offensive POY 1973 AP NFL MVP 1973 Bert Bell Award 1975 UPI AFL-AFC POY |
Honors | NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team NFL 1970s All-Decade Team Buffalo Bills WOF College Football HOF |
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1969–1977 1978–1979 | Buffalo Bills San Francisco 49ers |
College Hall-of-Fame | |
Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1985 |
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947, San Francisco, California), publicly known by his initials as O.J., and nicknamed The Juice, is an American former college and professional football player and filmactor. Although considered one of the greatest running backs of all time, Simpson is also known for having been charged with the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. He was acquitted in criminal court in 1995 after a lengthy, highly publicized trial (often called the 'Trial of the Century').
In 1997, Simpson was found liable for their deaths in civil court, but never paid the judgment.
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Football career
High school
At Galileo High School in San Francisco, Simpson played for the school's football team, the Galileo Lions.
College
Simpson played running back for the University of Southern California in 1967 and 1968 after playing at a junior college from 1965 to 1966. Simpson led the nation in rushing with 1,451 yards and 11 touchdowns in 1967. In 1968, he rushed for 1,709 yards and 22 touchdowns, earning the Heisman Trophy that year. Simpson was also a two-time All-American.
NFL
Simpson was drafted by the National Football League's Buffalo Bills, who got first pick in the 1969 draft after finishing 1-12-1 in 1968. Early in his NFL career, Simpson struggled on poor Buffalo teams, averaging only 622 yards per season for his first three.
He first rushed for more than 1,000 yards in 1972, gaining a total of 1,251. In 1973, Simpson rushed for a then-record 2,003 yards, becoming the first player ever to pass the 2,000-yard mark, and scored 12 touchdowns. Simpson gained more than 1,000 rushing yards for each of his next three seasons.
Simpson's 1977 season in Buffalo was cut short by injury. Before the 1978 season, Simpson signed with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played two unremarkable seasons.
For his career, Simpson gained 11,236 rushing yards, placing him 14th on the NFL's all-time rushing list. He was named NFL Player of the Year in 1972, 1973, and played in six Pro Bowls. Simpson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
Family life
Simpson was born to Eunice Durden Simpson (October 23, 1921–November 9, 2001) and James 'Jimmy' Lee Simpson (January 28, 1920–June 9, 1986). His parents were separated in 1952.
Simpson has one brother: Melvin Leon 'Truman' Simpson, and two sisters: Shirley Simpson-Baker and Carmelita Simpson-Durio.
In his childhood, Simpson fought off a great deal of adversity. From ages three to five, he had to wear homemade braces after contracting rickets. In 1960, he joined the Persian Warriors, a San Francisco street gang, and was incarcerated at the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center in 1962.
On June 24, 1967, Simpson married Marguerite L. Whitley. Together they had three children: Arnelle L. Simpson (born December 4, 1968), Jason L. Simpson (born April 21, 1970) and Aaren Lashone Simpson (born September 24, 1977). In 1979, Aaren drowned in the family's swimming pool a month before her second birthday. That same year Simpson and Marguerite were divorced.
On February 2, 1985, Simpson married Nicole Brown. They had two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988), and were divorced in 1992.
Acting
After his retirement from football, Simpson went on to a successful film career with parts in films such as the television mini-series Roots, and the motion pictures The Cassandra Crossing, Capricorn One, The Klansman, The Towering Inferno, Back to the Beach, and The Naked Gun trilogy. In 1979, he started his own film production company Orenthal Productions, which dealt mostly in made-for-TV fare. Simpson was considered for the lead role in The Terminator, before it was decided audiences might not accept him as a villain because he was perceived as too 'nice'.[citation needed]
Simpson's amiable persona and natural charisma landed him numerous endorsement deals. He was a spokesman for the Hertz rental car company (Ford vehicles are usually found in Hertz rental fleets, hence the nickname 'Simpsons' for the cars[citation needed]). He would often be shown running through airports, as if to suggest he was back on the football field. Simpson was also a longtime spokesman for Pioneer Chicken and owned two franchises, one of which was destroyed during the LA riots, as well as the pX Corporation, and he appeared in comic book ads for Dingo shoes.
Besides his acting career, Simpson had stints as a commentator for Monday Night Football and The NFL on NBC. He also hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, but he was the only host not invited to attend the program's 25th anniversary celebration special in 1999.
Murder case
Criminal trial
Simpson had pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge and was separated from Nicole. He was paying child support. On June 12, 1994 his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman were found dead outside Brown's condominium. Simpson was soon charged with their murders. After failing to turn himself in he became the focus of a low-speed pursuit. The pursuit, arrest and trial were among the most widely publicized in American history. On October 3, 1995, Simpson was found not guilty of the two murders. The verdict was seen live on TV by more than half the U.S. population, making it one of the most watched events in American TV history. There has been significant criticism of the prosecution and the police, and many contend that Simpson would have been found guilty had there not been so many mistakes and irregularities. This was often dubbed 'The Trial of the Century'. With the damage done to his public reputation, his acting career was ruined.
Civil trial
On February 4, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California found Simpson liable for the wrongful death of Ronald Goldman, battery against Ronald Goldman, and battery against Nicole Brown. The attorney for plaintiff Fred Goldman (father of Ronald Goldman) was Daniel Petrocelli. Simpson was ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages. However, California law protects pensions from being used to satisfy judgments, so Simpson was able to continue much of his lifestyle based on his NFL pension. A 2000 Rolling Stone article reported that Simpson also still makes a significant income by signing autographs. He subsequently moved from California to Miami, Florida. In Florida, a person's residence cannot be seized to collect a debt under most circumstances.
Simpson's life after the trials
Even after his two trials, Simpson was often in the news. He appeared in news stories that often had nothing directly to do with him. He was accused of illegally accessing signals from DirecTV.[citation needed] In 1998 at the end of an interview conducted by Ruby Wax for BBC1, Simpson mimed stabbing her with a banana while mimicking the theme music from Psycho.[1]
In 1995, he published a book entitled I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions (ISBN 0316341002).
In 1996, shortly after the trials, Simpson visited Britain. He gave a talk at the Oxford Union, where he was met by protesting women's rights groups. The protests concerned not the murder of Nicole Brown but the well-documented domestic abuse she suffered at Simpson's hands.
In 2001, he was tried for burglary and battery in a Florida road rage case that received some publicity, but he was again found not guilty. This verdict was also covered on live national television.
There were plans for him to have a reality TV show in the style of The Osbournes in 2003. Also, Simpson considered becoming a news commentator for actor Robert Blake's murder trial. [2]
During 2003, Simpson filmed a pay-per-view comedy special titled Juiced. The show, a hidden camera set-up show, included a controversial sketch where Simpson attempts to sell the infamous White Ford Bronco at a used car lot, telling the salesman, 'It was good for me. It helped me get away.' A DVD is planned with extra and uncensored material. [3]
Prior to the 2004 Orange Bowl football game featuring Simpson's USC Trojans, the former football star showed up unannounced at a USC practice. Head coach Pete Carroll allowed Simpson to come onto the field and mingle with the players and pose for pictures. Carroll responded to critics by proclaiming, 'We respect our Heisman Trophy winners.' [citation needed]
In June 2004, Simpson had planned a long series of news appearances to mark the tenth anniversary of the killings, but ended up being displaced by another story, the death and funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.
On November 14, 2006 Fox announced that it would be airing a two-part interview with Simpson by book publisher Judith Regan, in which he would have discussed the murders and promoted his upcoming book, If I Did It. On November 20, 2006, News Corp announced it had canceled the program as well as the book[4], due to recent criticisms. [5][6]
However, on November 22, 2006, a copy of the book was listed on eBay. It was removed within three hours after over 50 bids, the highest of which was over $1,600. [7]
Other related litigation
The civil and criminal trials of Simpson were not the only important legal cases that were spawned by the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994.
- Gerald Chamales and his wife, Kathleen, bought a house next to Simpson's estate in Brentwood at the corner of Ashford and Rockingham just ten days before the murders of which Simpson was accused. The media circus and hordes of curious tourists tormented them (and the rest of Simpson's neighbors) for the next four years. Their subsequent legal battle with the IRS culminated in the rule that they could not apply the drop in their house's value as a casualty loss deduction on their income tax return, because it was only temporary.
- Simpson's houseguest on the night of the murders, Brian 'Kato' Kaelin, sued Globe Communications for $15 million after it ran a headline in one of its tabloid newspapers insinuating that Kaelin was the real murderer. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendant, but on appeal, Kaelin convinced the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that he had a valid claim for defamation. Kaelin settled his lawsuit for an undisclosed amount.
- A New Hampshireintellectual property attorney, William B. Ritchie, challenged the validity of Simpson's trademarks under a federal statute that bars immoral, deceptive, or scandalous subject matter. Ritchie argued that because of the whole sequence of events from 1994 through 1997, Simpson's very name had become immoral and scandalous and thus could not be protected as a trademark. Ritchie convinced the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that he had standing to challenge Simpson's trademarks under the Lanham Act. Simpson has since abandoned his trademarks.
- On September 5, 2006, Ron Goldman's father took Simpson back to court to obtain control over his 'right to publicity' for purposes of satisfying the judgment in the civil court case.[8]
Filmography
- Medical Center (TV series)episodeThe Last 10 Yards (1969)
- Cade's County(TV series)episodeBlackout (1972)
- The Dream of Hamish Mose(unreleased) (1973)
- Why(unreleased) (1973)
- Here's Lucy(TV series)episodeThe Big Game (1973)
- The Klansman (1974)
- O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose(made-for-TV) (1974)
- The Towering Inferno (1974)
- The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
- Killer Forceaka The Diamond Mercenaries (1976)
- A Killing Affairaka Behind the Badge(made-for-TV) (1977)
- Roots (TV miniseries) (1977)
- Capricorn One (1978)
- Firepower (1979)
- Goldie and the Boxer(made-for-TV) (1979)
- Detour to Terror(made-for-TV) (1980)
- Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood(made-for-TV) (1981)
- Cocaine and Blue Eyes(made-for-TV) (1983)
- Hambone and Hillie (1984)
- 1st & Ten (TV series)episodesBlood on Blood (1987) Mind Games (1989)
- Back to the Beach (1987)
- Student Exchange(made-for-TV) (1987)
- The Naked Gunaka The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- In the Heat of the Night (TV series)episode Walkout (1989)
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- CIA Code Name: Alexa (1993)
- No Place to Hide (1993)
- Frogmen(unaired TV pilot) (1994)
- The Naked Gun 33⅓:The Final Insult (1994)
- Juiced with O.J. Simpson(TV pay-per-view) (2006)
OJ Simpson Watched Nicole Brown Have Sex With Men Through The Window
External links
- Pro Football Hall of Fame:Member profile
- College Football Hall of Fame:Member profile
- Pro-Football-Reference.com - career statistics
- O.J. Simpson at the Internet Movie Database
- O.J. Simpson at the Notable Names Database
- O.J. Simpson Profile at USC Legends
- O.J. Simpson Profile at Rosebowl Legends
- Secret Simpson Book Comes Out For Sweeps The Book Standard, November 2006
- O.J. Simpson Autobiography at Amazon
Civil and criminal trials
Preceded by: Gary Beban | Heisman Trophy Winner 1968 | Succeeded by: Steve Owens |
Preceded by: Larry Brown | NFL Most Valuable Player 1973 season | Succeeded by: Ken Stabler |
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Rice • Gabriel • Buchanan • Concannon • Elkins • Grabowski • Simpson |
National Football League NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team |
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Sammy Baugh Otto Graham Joe Montana Johnny Unitas Jim Brown Marion Motley Bronko Nagurski Walter Payton Gale Sayers O.J. Simpson Steve Van Buren Lance Alworth Raymond Berry Don Hutson Jerry Rice Mike Ditka Kellen Winslow Roosevelt Brown Forrest Gregg Anthony Muñoz John Hannah Jim Parker Gene Upshaw Mel Hein Mike Webster Deacon Jones Gino Marchetti Reggie White Joe Greene Bob Lilly Merlin Olsen Dick Butkus Jack Ham Ted Hendricks Jack Lambert Willie Lanier Ray Nitschke Lawrence Taylor Mel Blount Mike Haynes Dick Lane Rod Woodson Ken Houston Ronnie Lott Larry Wilson Ray Guy Jan Stenerud Billy Johnson |
National Football League NFL's 1970s All-Decade Team |
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Terry Bradshaw Ken Stabler Roger Staubach Earl Campbell Franco Harris Walter Payton O.J. Simpson Harold Carmichael |
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