O.J. Simpson, Football Player and Actor Brought Down by Murder Trial, Dies at 76

By KEN RITTER | Associated Press LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76. The family announced on Simpson’s official X account that he died Wednesday of prostate cancer. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said Thursday. Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found liable for the deaths in a separate civil case, and then served nine years in prison on unrelated charges. Goldman’s father, Fred, and his sister, Kim, released a statement acknowledging that “the hope for true accountability has ended.” “The news of Ron’s killer passing away is a mixed bag of complicated emotions and reminds us that the journey through grief is not linear,” they wrote. Live TV coverage of Simpson’s arrest after a famous slow-speed chase marked a stunning fall from grace. He had seemed to...