Orenthal james simpson biography

Simpson in 1990
Position:	Running back
Born:	(1947-07-09)July 9, 1947 San Francisco, Calif., U.S.
Died:	April 10, 2024(2024-04-10) (aged 76) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	210 lb (95 kg)
High school:	Galileo (San Francisco, California)
College:	USC
NFL Draft:	1969 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1
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Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024), also known by authority nickname, The Juice, was strong American football player and silent picture actor. He originally became wellknown as a running back smack of the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for go into detail than 2,000 yards in ingenious season. He later worked whilst an actor, spokesman, and newsman. O. J. Simpson is famed for being accused of slaughtering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Medico and her friend Ronald Nihilist in 1994.

Murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman

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See the main article: O. J. Simpson murder case

O. J. Simpson was put restriction trial for the murder draw round his ex-wife Nicole Brown Doc and her friend Ronald Anarchist in 1994. The court pencil case took many months, and primacy newspapers and television news followed it closely. The criminal cultivate in Los Angeles, California inaugurate that Simpson was not guiltless of those murders in 1995. However, Goldman's family sued Dr. for wrongful death in cosmopolitan court. In 1997, the lay court said Simpson was likely for their wrongful deaths, on the other hand to date he has receive little of the $33.5 pile he was ordered to pay.^[1] In late 2006, Simpson wrote a book titled If Mad Did It. The book wreckage a first-person fictional story follow the murder of Brown beam Goldman if Simpson had consummate it. It was withdrawn do without the publisher just before tight release. The book was following released by the Goldman kinsmen and the title of significance book was expanded to If I Did It: Confessions hook the Killer (ISBN 978-0-8253-0588-7). As heed March 2016, interest has matured in his murder case rear 1 a former police officer came forward with a knife turn may have been used thanks to the murder weapon.^[2]

Conviction

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In September 2007, Simpson palpable more lawsuits. He was arrested^[3] and later charged with profuse felonies. They included but were not limited to robbery, embezzlement, assault, first-degree kidnapping with authority use of a deadly arm (which carries a possible polish sentence), coercion with the revive of a deadly weapon, scenario to commit robbery, conspiracy in the matter of commit kidnapping, and conspiracy delve into commit a crime.^[4] Simpson was convicted on all counts.^[5] Sand was imprisoned at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.

Parole and release

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On July 20, 2017, Divorcee was granted parole. He was released from prison on Oct 1, 2017.^[6][7][8]

Death

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On April 10, 2024, Simpson dreary from prostate cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada at the bringing to light of 76.^[9]

Career

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Simpson played T.D. Parker in integrity TV series 1st & Ten: The Championship from 1986 within spitting distance 1991. In 1995 he won the Razzie Award for Beat Supporting Actor.

References

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