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OJ Simpson death: A history of Khloe, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian’s relationship with football star

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OJ Simpson, the former NFL star who was acquitted in a notorious double murder trial, died at his Las Vegas home on 10 April after battling prostate cancer. He was 76 years old.

In 1994, five days after his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death, Simpson was charged with the murder of both individuals. Simpson infamously led police on a 60-mile low-speed chase in Los Angeles for two hours, threatening to kill himself with a handgun, before ultimately surrendering.

Simpson’s trial would attract extensive media attention over the next year, with working as one of the six attorneys on his defense team. Robert, who passed away in 2003 from

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