He plays golf a lot. Visits his grown kids on occasion. And checks in with his parole officer.
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Almost 25 years to the day of the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson is living a relatively quiet life in Las Vegas, the city heโs called home since his 2017 release from prison after being locked upโnot on murder charges, but for trying to steal his own stuff.
โThe town has been good to me,โ Simpson said of Vegas, the Washington Post reports. โEverybody I meet seems to be apologizing for what happened to me here.โ
Interesting.
Well, lets see: What had happened was that in 2007โyears after the former football great miraculously was found not guilty of murdering ex-wife Nicole and Goldman (all praises are due the brilliant legal mind of the late Johnnie Cochran)โSimpson got the bright idea to roll up on some memorabilia dealers and try to take back some of his trinkets collectibles from his Hall of Fame days.
Yeah, not so bright.
Simpson, who at the very least figuratively got away with murder, got himself convicted of robbery and kidnapping in that crazy caper and ended up spending nine years in prison. He has lived in Vegas since his release in October 2017.
Simpson says he and his family arenโt interested in revisiting the past, a past for which he still owes the bulk of a $33.5 million civil judgment against him for the wrongful deaths of both Nicole Simpson and Goldman.
โThe subject of the moment is the subject I will never revisit again,โ Simpson told the Associated Press, according to the Post. โMy family and I have moved on.โ
The โsubjectโ at hand is the 25th anniversary of the killings of Nicole Simpson and Goldman, whose bodies were found June 12, 1994, inside Nicole Simpsonโs California home.
The prosecution of O.J. Simpson in their deaths was heralded as the โTrial of the Century,โ highlighted by Cochranโs often-quoted pronouncement on behalf of his client, โIf it doesnโt fit, you must acquit,โ said when a blood-soaked glove Simpson was asked to try on during the trial didnโt fit.
The trial made household names of folks like the defense teamโs Cochran and (Kim and themโs daddy) Robert Kardashian; Judge Lance Ito; and prosecutors Chris Darden and Marcia Clark.
O.J. Simpsonโs acquittal shone a light on the deep racial chasm that existed in this nation over issues of criminal justice, race, celebrity and domestic violence. It was a take on #MeToo before #MeToo (or Twitter) even existed.
And 25 years later, the issuesโand the chasmโare just as deep as ever.
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