They had two children, Sydney and Justin. In , Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson divorced. Ron Goldman, a waiter at that restaurant, went to Brown Simpson's home that night to return glasses her mother had left behind.
Simpson was in Los Angeles the evening of June 12 but took a late flight that night to Chicago. When he returned to Los Angeles the next day, he was interviewed by police, but not immediately arrested. On June 17, , prosecutors ordered Simpson to surrender, but instead he fled in a white Ford Bronco with his friend Al Cowlings, leading police on a slow-speed chase that brought Southern California freeways to a standstill and drew in a network television audience of 95 million Americans.
News helicopters hovered overhead, documenting the chase, and Angelinos gathered on the roadways, and in front of their televisions, to watch in real time. In , Simpson's trial transfixed the country. Defense attorneys claimed Simpson was wrongly accused but prosecutors argued that Simpson was a controlling husband who abused Brown Simpson.
Prosecutors also pointed to blood from the crime scene found in Simpson's car and home, and the fact that he was unaccounted for for more than an hour on the night of the killings. During the trial, the prosecution asked Simpson to put on gloves believed to have been worn by the killer, but they didn't appear to fit properly. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran famously told the jury in his closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
On Oct. At the hearing, which was live-streamed and broadcast on television, Simpson answered questions from the four-person parole board about his crime, saying he knew the memorabilia dealers well and that he owned the property he took from them. Simpson also said, "I'm not a guy who lived a criminal life. I'm a pretty straight shooter. When speaking about his jail time, he mentioned that he started a Baptist religious service in prison and that he followed the rules.
Simpson also said that if released he was looking forward to spending more time with his family: "I've missed a lot of time, like 36 birthdays with my children. He made a mistake. The parole board granted Simpson's parole and he was released from the Lovelock Correctional Institute in Nevada just after midnight on October 1.
The Department of Corrections released a short video of Simpson leaving the prison:. Around the time of the book's originally planned publication, Simpson taped an accompanying interview with HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan.
However, it was shelved due to the victims' families concerns that Simpson would find a way to profit from its broadcast. In March , the footage finally aired as part of a two-hour special titled O.
Simpson: The Lost Confession. In the interview, Simpson describes a "hypothetical" situation in which he encounters Goldman at his ex-wife's home, and takes a knife from his friend "Charlie" as things turn violent. Simpson also expresses some regret at the physical abuse he doled out on Nicole, saying, "The one thing that hurts me as much as anything in this Simpson currently lives in the Las Vegas area, where he is on parole after serving nine years for armed robbery.
Simpson was released from a Nevada prison in October He is ignoring them all. However, Simpson was back in the news for bad behavior not long after his release from prison. In November , he was kicked out of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas after reportedly getting drunk and breaking glasses at the hotel bar.
He was said to have cooperated with the security guards who escorted him out. The saga of the murders and his subsequent criminal trial returned to the spotlight for the series American Crime Story: The People v. The series featured actor Cuba Gooding Jr. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Simpson, who was charged with murdering her and a friend at her L.
His film debuts included the comedy "Naked Gun" where Simpson played a dim-witted assistant detective. Interestingly, Simpson also acted in the film "The Klansman", where he played a man framed for murder by the police.
Simpson regularly was seen in Hertz rental car television advertisements, where he could be seen leaping over luggage and other obstacles in an effort to catch an airline flight. Simpson regularly played golf at various events sponsored by Hertz. Simpson's first marriage ended in separation and divorce. In , a year after his separation, Simpson's first child of his prior marriage drowned in the Rockingham mansion pool.
Famous even before the Simpson trial for getting Claus von Bulow acquitted of murder, Dershowitz emerged as another celebrity super-lawyer. Now 82, Dershowitz is still making headlines for advising President Trump throughout his impeachment trial.
Judge Lance Ito's decision to allow television coverage of the trial was controversial, and in many ways, changed the nature of criminal trials.
It was also revealed that Ito's wife, Margaret York, had been detective Mark Fuhrman's superior officer in the past, but Ito did not recuse himself from the case.
Now 70, he has kept a low profile since the trial, and has never publicly discussed it or given interviews. Simpson trial began. He won reelection to the DA's office in , but lost in Since leaving public office, he served on a city ethics commission, as a fellow at the John F.
His son Eric Garcetti is the current mayor of Los Angeles. Lee Bailey in the courtroom, and the feuding didn't stop with the O. After his own son Brent died from a drug overdose in , he founded the Brent Shapiro Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to raise drug awareness and also a rehabilitation facility.
He is now During the trial, Scheck was the unknown lawyer who introduced the still-new science of DNA to jurors. The project has helped overturn over convictions. Scheck, now 71, also teaches at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Resnick was one of Nicole Brown Simpson's closest friends, who gained notoriety for her cocaine addiction.
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