O.J. Simpson

Orenthal James Simpson July 9 1947 April 10 2024 was an American football player actor and broadcaster He played in the National Football League NFL for 11 seasons primarily with the Buffalo Bills and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time Once a popular figure with the American public Simpsons professional success was later overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994 Simpson played college football for the USC Trojans where he won the Heisman Trophy as a senior and was selected first overall by the Bills in the 1969 NFLAFL draft During his nine seasons with the Bills Simpson received five consecutive Pro Bowl and firstteam AllPro selections from 1972 to 1976 He also led the league in rushing yards four times in rushing touchdowns twice and in points scored in 1975 In 1973 he became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2000 yards in a season earning him NFL Most Valuable Player MVP and is the only NFL player to do so in a 14game regular season Simpson holds the record for the singleseason yardspergame average at 1431 After retiring with the San Francisco 49ers in 1979 Simpson pursued an acting and broadcasting career He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985 In June 1994 Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Brown and Goldman He was acquitted in a lengthy and internationally publicized trial but found liable for the deaths three years later in a civil suit from the victims families Prior to his death Simpson had paid little of the 335 million judgment equivalent to 64 million in 2023 In 2007 Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas Nevada and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping In 2008 he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment with a minimum of nine years without parole He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Lovelock Nevada He was granted parole in July 2017 released from prison in October and granted early release from his parole in December 2021 by the Nevada Division of Parole and Probation He died in 2024 at the age of 76 from prostate cancer Description above from the Wikipedia article O J Simpson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia