LOS ANGELES - OJ Simpson, the star NFL football player whose 1995 acquittal in the so-called"trial of the century" for the brutal murders of his wife and a male friend gripped the world, has died at the age of 76, his family announced.
The disgraced former National Football League running back -- who has died at the age of 76, his family said Thursday -- will forever be remembered in connection with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson won the prestigious Heisman Trophy -- for the best player in American collegiate football -- at the University of Southern California in 1968 and was picked number one overall in the NFL draft the next year by the Buffalo Bills.
He did, however, strike it big with corporate America and he proceeded to cash in with advertisements for Royal Crown Cola, Schick, Foster Grant, TreeSweet orange juice and Wilson Sporting Goods. On June 13, 1994, Simpson's ex-wife and Goldman were found murdered outside her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood.Simpson immediately became the prime suspect.
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