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O.J. Simpson, Infamous Athlete, Dies of Cancer at 76
The football star was acquitted for a high-profile double murder in the ’90s and later served time in prison for armed robbery.
Simpson, the NFL running back whose high-profile 1990s double-murder trial made him infamous, died on April 10 after a battle with cancer, the football player’s family confirmed on social media. Simpson, nicknamed “The Juice,” broke records in college football and the NFL — first at University of Southern California, where the star wunderkind won a Heisman Trophy his senior year, then as a pro for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers. In 1994, his ex-wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were found violently stabbed to death outside of her home in Brentwood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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