O.J. Simpson has died at age 76, his household introduced on social media Thursday morning.
In keeping with a put up on Simpson’s X (previously Twitter) account, he died someday Wednesday following a battler with most cancers. TMZ is reporting Simpson died in Las Vegas surrounded by his kids and grandchildren.
Simpson was born in 1947 in San Francisco.
He made nationwide headlines in 1994 after being named an individual of curiosity within the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her good friend, Ronald Goldman.
Police had been later led on a low-speed chase by a white Ford Bronco that was carrying an armed Simpson within the again after he failed to show himself in. Reside footage of the occasion was carried on nationwide TV stations as police tried to cease the automobile.
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A extremely publicized homicide trial adopted within the months after the chase with Simpson being discovered not responsible of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman. He was later discovered liable in a wrongful dying civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to each households.
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Simpson was later sentenced to jail following a 2007 incident when he led a gaggle of males right into a Las Vegas lodge to rob a gaggle at gunpoint. He was launched from jail in 2017 after almost 9 years behind bars.
Simpson was a soccer star each in school and the professionals. He obtained high honors as a Heisman Trophy winner taking part in for USC in 1968. The Buffalo Payments chosen Simpson with the primary choose within the 1969 draft.
Following his NFL profession, Simpson frolicked within the broadcast sales space and performing. His most notable position got here as a part of The Bare Gun film trilogy.
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