{"id":825,"date":"2024-04-11T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2024-04-11T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T17:58:49","slug":"oj-simpson-passes-away-aged-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"OJ Simpson Passes Away Aged 76"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viral-stories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ojsimpson1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The notorious murder suspect, who was later found civilly liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman passed away surrounded by his family at his home in\u00a0Las Vegas\u00a0on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simpson became one of the most infamous figures in America after he was charged with the murders in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viral-stories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ojsimpson1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18385\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An X post shared on his official account by his family said: \u2018On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.&nbsp;During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. -The Simpson Family.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simpson, a former football running back who played 11 seasons with the Buffalo Bills, reinvented himself as an actor before Brown and Goldman\u2019s murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although cleared of the killings, his reputation was ruined forever and the latter part of his career was marked by a series of seedy ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being acquitted, Simpson went on to be found civilly liable for the murders and was later forced to pay out $33.5million in damages to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He faced further legal troubles when he was sentenced to nine to 33 years behind bars for armed robbery in Nevada in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was previously reported that the ex-NFL star was battling prostate cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been pictured looking frail on a number of occasions earlier this year while walking around his Las Vegas neighborhood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died aged 76 after a short battle with prostate&nbsp;cancer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notorious murder suspect, who was later found civilly liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman passed away surrounded by&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}