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Marcia Clark, who served as the lead prosecutor of O.J. Simpson‘s 1994 murder trial, is speaking out after his death.
“I send my condolences to Mr. Simpson’s family,” Clark, 70, said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight.
Simpson died on Wednesday, April 10, after battling prostate cancer, his family announced via X on Thursday, April 11. He was 76 years old.
“On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,” the Simpson family shared in a statement. “During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace.”
O.J. Simpson died of prostate cancer on Wednesday, April 10 — but the controversial former football star never publicly acknowledged his diagnosis. In February, Las Vegas’ Local 10 News reported that Simpson had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy. However, as rumors began to swirl that Simpson was in hospice care, Simpson took […]
Though he originally rose to fame as a star NFL athlete, Simpson’s name became a mainstay in the media after he was accused of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, both of whom were fatally stabbed.
After a nearly year-long trial that gripped the nation, Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in 1995. He was later found guilty for wrongful death and battery against Goldman in a civil suit in 1997.
Simpson’s legal troubles didn’t end there. After he was arrested in 2007, the former pro athlete was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery the following year. Simpson was sentenced to serve nine to 33 years in prison and was released on parole in 2021 after serving the minimum sentence. (His parole hearing was held in November of that year but he was not released until December 2021.)
Clark took a leave of absence after the trial and later resigned from her position in 1997.
The late O.J. Simpson was father of five children, whom he shared with his two former spouses. The former athlete tied the knot with his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, in 1967. Prior to their 1979 split, the pair welcomed three kids together: Arnelle, Jason and Aaren. Simpson went on to wed Nicole Brown Simpson in […]
“I didn’t go to work that day,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of the day Simpson was acquitted. “I didn’t have to. The case was over. I got the kids off to school. I drove up the coast to meet my friend for lunch. I was numb. I wanted relief.”
She added of her resignation, “I couldn’t even think of going back there. The misery was so profound. The only thing I wanted was, ‘Get me away from there’ — the ugliness I had been through. When my overtime and vacation time ran out, I had my office packed up. I never went back.”
MYUNG J. CHUN-/POOL/AFP via Getty Images NFL star O.J. Simpson was infamously acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman following a high-profile trial in the ‘90s. The legal battle was one of the most notorious criminal trials in American history, and a defining moment of the 1990s. Brown Simpson […]
More than two decades after the “trial of the century,” it became the subject of FX’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, which premiered on the network in 2016.
The limited series starred Cuba Gooding Jr. (Simpson), Sterling K. Brown (Christopher Darden), John Travolta (Robert Shapiro) and David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian). American Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson portrayed Clark.
