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Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines and O.J. Simpson have a surprising connection dating back to his infamous murder trial


Cheryl Hines is friends with plenty of Hollywood celebrities, but there's one figure she shares a particularly odd connection with: O.J. Simpson.

As part of the requirements to prevent them from being unduly influenced by information not presented at trial, jurors were prohibited from watching TV, reading newspapers or even making calls from their the hotel's phones, and they had a curfew each night, according to Newsweek. Hines recalled a hotel pianist who performed on the jurors' floor to cheer them up saying 'They are going nuts, they're not going to make it'; seen with husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in January in Los Angeles The hotel tried to make up for the jurors' unfortunate situation by sending up one of its pianists to the fifth floor suites to serenade them on the ivories, but Hines said the woman felt as if he was of little comfort to them.

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