Everything the Kardashians have said about OJ Simpson

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Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson has died at the age of 76 following a battle with most cancers.

On Thursday 11 April, Simpson’s household introduced his demise on his Twitter/X account. “On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer,” the assertion learn. “He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.”

While Simpson was beforehand considered one among the biggest operating backs in American soccer, he turned a controversial determine in the ‘90s after his highly-publicised trial for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Simpson was accused, charged and ultimately acquitted of murdering Brown and Goldman in 1994.

For what was referred to as “the trial of the century,” the late Robert Kardashian Sr reactivated his law license to serve on Simpson’s protection crew. Although Robert died in 2003 from esophageal most cancers, his well-known household has continued to be open about how they have been affected by the trial.

Robert’s ex-wife Kris Jenner and his daughters – Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe Kardashian – have defined how the trial created a divide inside their household. Kim, who’s finding out to develop into a lawyer, has additionally poked enjoyable at how her father’s work with Simpson has formed her personal profession.

Here’s a rundown of every part that the Kardashian-Jenner household has said about Simpson’s trial, and their relationship to their father’s shut pal.

What did Kris Jenner suppose about the trial, and the way did it impression her relationship along with her ex-husband?

Years after the trial, Kris Jenner was extraordinarily vocal about the demise of her pal Nicole Brown Simpson. During an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in 2019, she reminisced about a Los Angeles restaurant that she and Brown would continuously go to.

“We sat right over there,” Kris said. “And I could tell you what she ordered – she ordered the white fish with the spinach and the roasted potatoes. And I think she had a margarita.”

“The fact that we’re looking at the same menus we all had when we were going there all those years ago with Nicole,” she continued, talking to pal Faye Resnick. “I feel like it was just meant to be, that this is where we are to celebrate her life.”

In her 2011 memoir, Kris Jenner… And All Things Kardashian, she shared intense particulars about Brown’s relationship with Simpson, writing that Brown had been abused by Simpson and had images of it, together with different proof. “Nicole really wanted someone close to her to know what was going on, so that somebody – namely me – could be a witness,” she wrote, per Radar Online.

In 2020, Kim Kardashian sat down for a dialog with David Letterman with Kris in the viewers. The actuality star shared that whereas rising up along with her dad and mom, who divorced in 1991, Kris had totally different views about the trial than Robert.

“My mom was extremely vocal on her feelings, she believed that her friend was murdered by him and that was really traumatising for her,” she said. “And then we’d go to my dad’s house and it was a whole other situation there.”

Kim continued: “We didn’t really know what to believe or whose side to take as kids, because we didn’t want to hurt one of our parents’ feelings.”

How did the trial have an effect on Kris and Robert’s younger kids?

While the former couple’s 4 kids – Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Robert Kardashian Jr – have been fairly younger when the trial occurred, they’ve since recalled a few of the methods it affected their household. During her 2020 interview with Letterman, Kim mirrored on how she and her siblings have been divided resulting from their dad and mom’ opposing views on the trial.

“My dad took us to court one day and he took us out of school and he didn’t tell my mom,” she said. “And I remember my mom was sitting with Nicole’s parents, and Kourtney and I were sitting right behind OJ. And we look over at my mom and she’s giving this death stare, like, ‘What are you doing out of school? What are you doing here?’”

She continued: “It kind of tore our family apart. I’d say for the whole time of the trial.”

Although Kim had vivid reminiscences about going to courtroom throughout the trial, that wasn’t essentially the case for her youthful sister, Khloe.

“Kourtney and Kim would go to court with my dad all the time. They were much more involved,” Khloe instructed Access Hollywood in 2016. “We were kids. I think I was eight or something, so we’re all sheltered from that. For us, we’re just playing and hanging out. So, I don’t remember it as vividly as Kourtney and Kim do.”

In 1991, Kris remarried Caitlyn Jenner – who publicly got here out as a transgender lady in 2015. Before Caitlyn and Kris ended their marraige, the decathlete additionally detailed how the trial affected their household. During an look on Dr Phil in 2009, Caitlyn shared the “difficult” conversations she had with Kris and Robert’s daughters throughout the trial.

“I remember the day the verdict came through and the girls came in and they said, ‘I told you he didn’t do it,’” the Olympian recalled. “We sat down and I said, ‘Look, just because he got a not guilty verdict doesn’t mean he didn’t do it, and I just don’t want to hear his name anymore.’ And I had a lot of conversations with Robert to try to make sure it didn’t tear the family apart.”

Kim Kardashian has poked enjoyable about the trial

Although Kim was solely 13 at the time, she has since shared many particulars about her reminiscences throughout the trial.

She beforehand claimed that she went by means of Simpson’s notorious Louis Vuitton garment bag, which was a significant supply of hypothesis all through the trial. Her father was seen carrying the bag simply after Simpson was accused of murdering Brown, as prosecutors speculated it had contained proof. In 1996, Robert instructed CNN he tried to provide the bag to police however they refused to take it.

Speaking to GQ in 2016, Kim defended her father by saying she went by means of the bag herself as an unassuming teenager. “I know people said at the time that he [joined Simpson’s defense team] so he couldn’t be called as a witness, because he had that Louis Vuitton bag that supposedly had the [murder] weapon and stuff like that,” she instructed the outlet. “But that bag was sitting at my dad’s house. I remember I went through it. The news was like, ‘Where is this Louis Vuitton bag?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh it’s upstairs’.”

She additionally claimed that every one that was in the bag was “just toiletries and clothes and golf clothes”.

“Just random stuff,” Kim added. “I’m pretty sure it’s, like, still in – probably in my dad’s storage”.

Kim has since taken steps to develop into a lawyer herself, and beforehand made a quip about how Simpson’s trial has affected her profession. When she hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021, Kim joked in her opening monologue that she was part of her father’s protection crew for the trial.

“I think I’m following in my father’s footsteps. My father was and still is such an influence and inspiration to me and I credit him with really opening my eyes to racial injustice,” she said. “It’s because of him I met my first Black person. Want to take a stab in the dark at who it was? I know it’s sort of weird to remember your first Black person you met, but OJ [Simpson] does leave a mark. Or none at all, I still don’t know.”

Nicole Brown’s sister Tanya later hit again at Kim’s opening monologue joke, calling it “beyond inappropriate and insensitive”.

“If she and her family loved Nicole so much as they claimed, this was done in very poor taste,” she said at the time, per People. “I think the taste of writers at SNL was beyond inappropriate and insensitive as was the reaction in the audience.”

“Regarding Kim, I believe everyone has a choice to control what they speak on,” Tanya continued. “She easily could have said, ‘This is inappropriate and disrespectful to everyone! Not only for Nicole and Ron, but for all victims of domestic violence who were murdered by their significant others.’”

What did the well-known household suppose about The People vs OJ Simpson?

In 2016, FX launched a restricted sequence about Simpson’s trial, The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story. Cuba Gooding Jr performed Simpson himself, whereas David Schwimmer performed Robert Kardashian and Selma Blair portrayed Kris Jenner. John Travolta additionally starred as superstar lawyer Robert Shapiro, who was on Simpson’s protection crew.

When the present first aired, the Kardashian-Jenner clan had combined reactions to it. In an look on The Late Late Showin 2016, Khloe claimed not all of the scenes have been a mirrored image of actual occasions. She claimed Simpson threatened to take his life in her room, not in her sister Kim’s bed room, and disputed a scene the place the Kardashian kids are proven chanting the household identify when Robert seems on TV.

“They’ve done a great job,” she instructed host James Corden. “I appreciate the way they’ve portrayed my father. They’re kind of sensationalising the Kardashian name in it, but I think to bring a younger audience in.”

She continued: “I’m not upset about it but there was some scene of the kids chanting ‘Kardashians’ when my dad was reading the potential suicide note. I even called Kim because I was like 10 and said, ‘Did that really happen? I don’t remember any of this happening.’ And she goes, ‘Absolutely not. That didn’t happen!’”

Kim went on to reward some elements of the present, corresponding to how her father was portrayed by Schwimmer. “There were times I was watching it and I was like, ‘Oh shit, this is dead-on,’” she instructed GQ in 2016. “Like, ‘That looks like my dad. It feels like my dad.’ It was eerie to watch sometimes.”

However, she did take situation with the scene about Simpson’s potential suicide notice. “I don’t think those parts were accurate,” she said. “I think our ages were off and our looks were off.”

“[The show] said [OJ] tried to kill himself in my bedroom and it was Khloé’s bedroom, not my bedroom,” Kim added.