Obituary
O.J. Simpson, NFL Legend Acquitted of Double Murder, Dies at 76
- His 1995 televised trial on murder charges riveted the nation
- Imprisoned 13 years later on kidnapping and weapons charges
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O.J. Simpson, the football legend and movie star whose acquittal for the murder of his White ex-wife exposed a racial chasm in the US in the 1990s, has died. He was 76.
The cause was cancer, according to a post by his family on his account on X, formerly Twitter. It said he died on April 10 “surrounded by his children and grandchildren.” He had been a free man since 2017, when he finished serving a nine-year prison sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery in a case that developed after his acquittal for murder.