Caitlyn Jenner responds to OJ Simpson’s dying: ‘Good riddance’

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Caitlyn Jenner has shared an unfiltered response to information that OJ Simpson has died at 76 years outdated.

The 74-year-old former Olympian took to X, previously Twitter, shortly after information of Simpson’s dying broke. “Good Riddance #OJSimpson,” wrote Jenner on Thursday 11 April.

Simpson – who was battling prostate most cancers – died on Wednesday at his dwelling in Las Vegas surrounded by his kids and grandchildren, his household introduced in a assertion on Thursday. “During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace,” the assertion learn.

The NFL participant and actor shot to notoriety within the 1990’s, when he was charged for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her good friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was in the end discovered not responsible in a 1995 trial verdict watched by round 100 million individuals worldwide – dubbed “the trial of the century”. He was deemed accountable for the deaths in 1996 in a civil case introduced by the 2 victims’ households and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in punitive and compensatory damages.

He was convicted for the armed theft and kidnapping of two sports activities memorabilia sellers in Las Vegas in 2008, and was launched from jail in 2017 after serving 9 years.

In May 2023, Simpson shared in a social media put up that he had “caught cancer” and “had to do the whole chemo thing.”

Earlier this 12 months, the athlete denied stories he was in “hospice” following most cancers remedy. “Hey X world, hospice? Hospice? You talking about hospice?” the previous soccer working again stated in a video posted to X in February. “No, I’m not in any hospice. I don’t know who put that out there,” he continued. “I guess it’s like Donald [Trump] says, ‘You can’t trust the media.’”

This just isn’t the primary time that Jenner has shared her ideas on Simpson. In 2021, Jenner claimed that Nicole Brown was as soon as warned by Simpson that he would in the future “kill her and get away with it”. The actuality TV star made the claims throughout an episode of Australia’s Big Brother VIP, telling different contestants: “And at one point he told Nicole, ‘I’ll kill you and get away with it because I’m OJ Simpson.’

“It was an extraordinarily difficult time,” Jenner continued. “Nicole was Kris’ best friend, had been for a long time. I was at Nicole’s house two days before the murder.” Jenner stated that Brown, who was a household good friend of the Jenners, had “relayed that information” to her ex-wife “Kris, at one point, and, um, unfortunately she was right”.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star additionally stated that she and her ex-wife had watched Simpson’s trial in 1995. Jenner’s first husband, Robert Kardashian Sr, had served as Simpson’s protection legal professional through the trial.

“We were at the courthouse, we were watching what was going on in the other room,” stated Jenner. “And even after the not guilty verdict… Kris turns around to me and goes, ‘We should’ve listened to Nicole, she was right, right from the beginning.’”