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After his passing, it might come as a shock to some to seek out out that OJ Simpson’s youngsters with Nicole Brown had been each by his bedside within the hours earlier than his demise. The previous NFL star and his ex-wife welcomed a daughter, Sydney, and a son, Justin, years earlier than he was accused of murdering her and later discovered accountable for her demise.
TMZ was the primary to report that Sydney, now 38, and Justin, 35, had been amongst those that visited him at his house within the remaining days main as much as demise on April 10, 2024. His two different residing kids from his earlier marriage to Marguerite Whitley, Jason and Arnelle, had been additionally reportedly at their father’s bedside throughout his final moments (Simpson and Whitley had been additionally mother and father to daughter Aaren, who tragically handed away on the age of two from an unintentional drowning.)
Based on the outlet, guests who got here to see Simpson throughout his hospice care had been required to signal NDAs for privateness—and that features all medical personnel, pals, and even household—so it’s unlikely we’ll hear any direct particulars about Simpson’s remaining moments from his two kids with Brown. Nonetheless, sources did inform TMZ {that a} medical skilled gave the heads as much as relations on April 5, 2024, that Simpson, who had been identified with prostate most cancers and started receiving chemotherapy therapies earlier within the yr, was starting to say no, prompting his family members to collect at his bedside.
The inclusion of OJ Simpson‘s youngsters with Nicole Brown could also be stunning to some, contemplating the previous NFL operating again was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her pal, Ronald Goldman, in 1994. What adopted was probably the most well-known and controversial prison trials in American historical past, in any other case often called the Individuals v. OJ Simpson. The trial, which started in 1995, lasted for almost 9 months, throughout which the prosecution introduced proof together with DNA, blood samples, and a bloody glove discovered on the crime scene. Nonetheless, Simpson’s protection staff, led by well-known attorneys Johnnie Cochran and Robert Kardashian, raised doubts concerning the integrity of the proof and argued that Simpson was framed by racist law enforcement officials.
Ultimately, Simpson was acquitted of all prison prices, a verdict that sparked intense debate and controversy as many continued to consider that he was liable for Brown and Goldman’s murders. Regardless of his acquittal within the prison trial, Simpson was later discovered accountable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands in damages to the victims’ households.
Within the aftermath of the trials, each Sydney and Justin have sometimes made headlines, however they’ve largely stayed out of the general public eye. Understandably, all of his kids have confronted challenges related to being the kids of probably the most notorious figures in American authorized historical past—together with unfounded claims that one in all them might be the true killer behind their mom’s homicide. Nonetheless, there isn’t a credible proof to counsel that any of his youngsters are liable for Brown or Goldman’s deaths.
For extra about OJ Simpson, you possibly can learn his 2008 memoir, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
. Written by Simpson and instructed in his personal phrases, the e-book takes readers via the previous NFL star’s well-known homicide trial after the brutal 1995 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal, Ron Goldman, at her house in Brentwood, California. Within the e-book, Simpson reveals how he would have dedicated the murders, beneath the pretense that his confession was “hypothetical.” A brand new version of the e-book was printed in 2007 and included essays written by members of the Goldman household, a member of the Goldman household authorized staff, and Simpson’s ghostwriter, revealing extra particulars about his homicide trial and his authorized points after Brown and Goldman’s homicide. Journalist Barbara Walters described the memoir as “probably the most chilling issues I’ve ever learn.”