Football, film and TV star OJ Simpson has died after battling cancer. He was 76 years old. A look back at his life and the murder trial that gripped the nation.
The former football hero, actor and celebrity murder defendant died April 10. A post on April 11 from Simpson’s family on X, formerly Twitter, said Simpson “succumbed to his battle with cancer." It asked on their behalf for “privacy and grace.”Simpson announced in May 2023 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. His health declined rapidly in early April just before his death, his lawyer said.
Simpson was a record-setting football star during 11 years as a running back in the NFL and became a movie actor, sportscaster and television advertising pitchman before he was famously acquitted of criminal charges alleging he stabbed his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, to death in 1994 in Los Angeles. The proceedings in California in 1996 became known as theLaVergne acknowledged that Simpson died without paying the families of Simpson’s slain ex-wife and Goldman the bulk of a $33.
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