OJ Simpson has died

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Terrible terrible man

Yes, I know he had a cameo in a few movies and I'm not out for a fight with you but I'm totally amazed that you think he was an well known in the UK as the footballers you mentioned before the murders

I remember reading how he’d moved to Florida after the civil trial to try and escape having to pay the damages. He then wrote a book about how, if he had committed the crime, he would have got away with it! 🤨🙄😲😔 Anyway, the best bit is that the family of the young man he murdered managed to legally sieze the rights to the book. It was a bestseller and they made a fortune and he got none of it! KARMA!!!

I hope the murdering abuser rots.

Putting the murders to one side do you not accept that he was a wife beater?

Good riddance

I'm the same age as you and didn't have a clue who he was when I was younger. I do remember the car chase being all over the news when I was a kid though, I recall watching it at my neighbours house as it came up as breaking news on tv.

He was NOT a huge household name in the UK before the murders!

I'm a big sports fan and no way was he in the same international league as Ronaldo or Beckham.

He was huge in the US but would only have been known here to American Football fans which has never been very big in the UK, in comparison to proper football.

He got away with it because the police framed a guilty man.

This has got to be someone deliberately trying to be contrary or someone completed deluded and gullible!

A true icon - even if you’re really that dumb to believe he didn’t horrifically and frenziedly murder the mother of his children and a kind young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, all while his children were close by and could have walked into the scene, he was an abusive monster and wife beater.

An incredible father doesn’t abuse the mother of his children, let alone almost cut her head off while frenziedly murdering her!

Some sick people about.

@misszebra in 1989 OJ beat Nicole so badly she was hospitalised. She told police when they arrived at the scene “He’s going to kill me”. He pleaded “no contest” to the charge of spousal battery. In an act of rampant misogyny he received no jail time and merely had to have domestic abuse counselling over the phone.

There are recordings of 911 calls made by Nicole in the months leading up to her murder, and that of Ron Goldman, with her sobbing and pleading for help as OJ rants and rages at her in the background.

The man was a monster.

You've echoed me almost word for word, I'm glad I want living in some weird bubble of ignorance

Whatever or whoever you are is irrelevant. Only God grants peace and rest in death.

Many people might be surprised to find when they die that they are sharing space with the people they damned to hell.

I think they'd be more surprised that there is life after death

I feel really sorry for the Goldmans, their son is overlooked so often. It was a dead woman and a dead man who were the inconvenience, not just her.

Maybe it’s just me then, but when the murders and car chase happened I was well aware that he was an all-time great in his sport and that he’d been Nordberg in all the Naked Gun movies. AFAIR he was about the most famous US sportsman of his time.

His acquittal was a fucking disgrace. Though as has been said, he got done in a civil court for murder and in a criminal court for serious crime in Vegas (I think it was).

He was a very foolish man all told

He'd had a very successful career and unlike many former sports stars maintained a lucrative post-football life with sponsorship, acting, TV commentating, and all-round good guy who was very popular in both black and white American show-biz life.

But he threw that all away by beating his wife over the years who then divorced him, then eventually killing her and Ron Goldman in a fit of rage.

He had it all but something went wrong somewhere.

absolutely glad someone here is talking some sense. seems like most people think they have the final word, like I said - I hope none of them find themselves being wrongly accused of a crime, if they'll be treated this way.

Which crime was he wrongly accused of?

I'm not a sports fan and I knew who he was way before the murders. I knew him as an actor. My husband and kids liked the Naked Gun films, not my humour but sometimes you sit through these things if the rest of the family do like them.

I preferred Capricorn One which the kids also liked.

He might not have been a huge household name but he certainly wasn't unknown. To someone like me who liked films and didn't like sport he was better known that Beckham and Ronaldo. I wouldn't even be able to identify Ronaldo in a photograph, I know his name but my interest in football and footballers is zero.

I wonder if he will have a white ford bronco hearse followed by hundreds of cops down the freeway

was that proved? or was it just speculation

yay at last some good news. Shame he didn't die in prison though.

As I said in a separate post to you - he was arrested and charged with “spousal beating” in 1989 after he hospitalised Nicole. He pleaded no contest and was ordered to attend counselling over the phone. It’s a fact, whether you like it or not.

I cannot believe some of you are standing up for him! He was an incredibly bad man. OMG why don't you see it. Women and children are being killed by men every day. He was one of them killing a women. FFS do not defend him.

There’s no smoke without fire as far as he’s concerned.

I first saw him on TV in the 70s original Roots series.

Incredible fathers don't beat their childs mother. Nor do they murder her.