Former football star O.J. Simpson, acquitted in a criminal court of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, died of cancer Tuesday.
The former football star was acquitted of the 1994 killing of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in what became known as"The Trial of the Century."O.J. Simpson, a former football star who was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend in what became known as"The Trial of the Century," but who was then found liable for their deaths in a civil procedure, has died after a battle with cancer, his family said.
He then branched out from sports into entertainment and broadcasting, acting in movies like “The Naked Gun” trilogy. He also served as a Hertz rent-a-car pitchman and a football commentator. Three years later, however, Simpson was found liable for the deaths by a California civil court jury and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families.In a separate case more than a decade later, Simpson was convicted by a jury in Las Vegas and sentenced to prison for leading five men, including two with guns, in a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a cramped room at an off-strip Las Vegas casino hotel.
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