Tuesday, June 2, 2026

OJ Simpson Dead at 76, 30 Years After Killing Ex Wife and Friend

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OJ Simpson is dead at age 76.

Thirty years ago he killed his ex wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. He was acquitted in a carnival of a criminal trial but found guilty in a civil trial.

Simpson exits this world without ever paying the $31 million judgement against him. The case was called The Trial of the Century.

The former Buffalo Bills star wound up in prison later on other criminal charges.

That he’s died of cancer is not surprising. When I covered his trial in 1994, it was clear Simpson was living on steroids.

Rest in peace? Not this one.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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