OJ Simpson, fallen football hero acquitted of murder in 'trial of the century,' dies at 76

(11 Apr 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Lovelock, Nevada - 20 July 2017
1. O.J. Simpson walking in
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Connie Bisbee, Nevada Parole Board Chairman:
"And we have that you are currently, well very recently turned 90-years-old."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) OJ Simpson:
"I feel like it though."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Connie Bisbee, Nevada Parole Board Chairman:
"You look great for 90. How about we take two decades off and call you 70."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) OJ Simpson:
"And I will be no problem, you know and I think I kept my word, as I said I've done my time. I'd just like to get back to my family and friends and believe it or not. I do have some real friends. But I don't think I could have represented this prison, I don't think any inmate has ever represented it better than I."
6. Simpson leaving with lawyer Malcolm LaVergne
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ARCHIVE: Las Vegas - 15 September 2007
7. Wide of Palace Station Hotel and Casino
8. Mid of Palace Station Hotel and Casino
9. Various of corridor and hotel room (NOT THE ONE WHERE INCIDENT OCCURRED)
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ARCHIVE: Los Angeles - Date Unknown
10. Mid of courtroom during OJ Simpson trial, zoom in on Simpson
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STORYLINE:
O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
Simpson's attorney confirmed to TMZ he died Wednesday night in Las Vegas. A message posted Thursday on Simpson's official X account - formerly Twitter - said he died after battling cancer.
“He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,” the statement said.
Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman 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.
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