O.J Simpson dies at 76, family confirms

LAS VEGAS – The former NFL great Orenthal James Simpson has died at the age of 76, his family announced on April 10, 2024. The family says he succumbed to his battle with cancer. “He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,” family said on X.

O.J. Simpson appeared to have it made after rewriting the record books as an American football star. But it all came crashing down in 1994 when Simpson, who had parlayed his sports fame into a career as an actor and advertising pitchman, was charged with the murder of his ex-wife and a male companion.

Simpson was famously acquitted of those charges in 1995, but was sent to prison years later for a bungled armed robbery. The disgraced former National Football League running back will forever be remembered in connection with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.

His sensational racially charged 1995 double murder trial transfixed America and was dubbed “The Trial of the Century.”