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OJ Simpson dead at 76 after cancer battle: Football legend turned notorious double-murderer dies 'surrounded by family' in Las Vegas just two months after diagnosis


The movie star died Thursday.

An X post shared on his official account by his family said: 'On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. Simpson became one of the most infamous figures in America after he was charged with murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson, a former football running back who played 11 seasons with the Buffalo Bills, reinvented himself as an actor before Brown and Goldman's murders.

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