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O.J. Simpson, Football Player and Actor Accused of Murdering Ex-Wife, Dies at 76


O.J. Simpson, the former champion football running back and actor who was acquitted of murder, died of cancer, his family confirmed.

Simpson, the former champion football running back-turned actor who was acquitted in a sensational trial of charges he murdered his ex-wife and her boyfriend, died of cancer, his family confirmed. After retiring from football, he starred in three “Naked Gun” movies and the comedy “Back to the Beach.” He had completed a two-hour long pilot for the adventure series “Frogmen” when his arrest brought the project for NBC to an abrupt halt. On June 12, 1994, his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside her Brentwood condo.

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