If the glove fits…
On Thursday, news broke that OJ Simpson died at age 76 immediately after a struggle with cancer.
He’s remembered for his past in the NFL and his stint in Hollywood – but, he’s most infamous for his 1994 televised law enforcement chase in his white Bronco, his 1995 murder trial and subsequent acquittal for killing his ex spouse, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, and his romance to the Kardashian family.
Just before the Kardashians became the most popular loved ones in the entire world with a actuality Tv empire, they presently experienced deep ties to the athlete and his late spouse.
In this 1994 snap, the Kardashian family can be seen with OJ and Nicole during their Easter holiday vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe are all demonstrated smiling. OJ, Nicole, her sister Dominque Brown, and the Simpson young children, Justin and Sydney, are also in the picture. Rounding it out are Kris Jenner and her then-wife or husband, Caitlyn Jenner.
Nicole would be killed just 3 months later on, in June of that yr.
Robert Kardashian Sr. was his lawyer — getting turn out to be close friends with Simpson in college — and finally obtained Simpson acquitted, in a controversial ruling that “The View” deemed “an injustice” on Thursday.
The people were so close that Khloe even stated she grew up contacting him “Uncle OJ” and Nicole “Aunt Nicole.”
In the documentary “Who Killed Nicole?,” Simpson’s former manager Norman Pardo claimed that Simpson bragged about obtaining an affair with Kris whilst they were being each and every married to their respective spouses, Nicole and Robert.
There were being even rumors that Simpson was Khloe’s actual father, which Kris has denied.
In a 2015 job interview with ABC News’ “20/20,” Lawrence Schiller, creator of “American Tragedy: The Uncensored Tale of the O.J. Simpson Defense,” claimed that before his Bronco freeway chase on June 17, 1994, Robert Kardashian Sr. observed Simpson sitting down in Kim’s childhood bed room recording “a suicide tape” and holding onto images of Nicole and their young children.
“Then O.J. reported, “I’m going to destroy myself in this space,’ and I said, “You can not. This is my daughter’s bedroom,’” Robert advised Schiller in a previous recorded interview. “‘My minimal female Kim sleeps below. I cannot have my minimal girl in this bedroom, and each individual time I come in below, I’m likely to see your overall body lying in this. You cannot do that.’”
Here’s a glimpse again at the what the major actuality Television family members has reported about OJ Simpson as a result of the yrs.
Kris Jenner
Robert Kardashian Sr., who died of cancer in 2003, married Kris Jenner in 1978 and experienced daughters Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and son Rob, ahead of their 1991 divorce (Kris then married Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn, in 1991 and the few had Kendall and Kylie prior to their 2015 divorce).
“The only point I explore with [Robert] is the kids, we just hold it about the young children,” she explained to Fantastic Morning The united states in September 1995. “Because I assume what would happen is our views are so of course black and white, that what is that heading to do?”
All through a 2009 interview with Dr. Phil, Kris stated that Robert wrote her a letter before the trial. In accordance to Kris, he said, “’Look, I know you never concur with what is likely down here, but this is what I have to do for my close friend.’”
Kris additional explained that the trial was “devastating” for her family members.
“You have Robert Kardashian on the protection group defending [O.J.’s] group, and you have me, my girlfriend’s useless,” she reported, because she experienced been shut with Nicole Brown Simpson, who OJ was accused of murdering alongside with her buddy Ronald Goldman.
“It was a extremely tricky circumstance and what we wanted to do was band with each other as a family members and choose that this is not going to tear us aside.”
Kris also explained that she thought Nicole Brown Simpson.
“Nicole experienced been beaten up by O.J. and she experienced been keeping this physical proof in the kind of photographs and, it would transform out, other evidence, in which she had documented 17 decades of abuse,” Kris wrote in her 2011 memoir, “Kris Jenner … and All Items Kardashian.”
Kris has slammed rumors that she experienced an affair with OJ, and that he was Khloe’s father,
“They printed a tale that I was sleeping with O.J.,” Jenner explained on a 2019 episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
“That f—ing piece of s—. It’s genuinely variety of pathetic that when rumors get started out the media gives it lifestyle and breath and on the anniversary of Nicole’s demise. It is so tasteless and disgusting.”
Caitlyn Jenner
“Obviously he did it, and he acquired away with it, and at one level he even instructed Nicole, ‘I’ll kill you and get absent with it ’cause I’m OJ Simpson,’” Jenner alleged, in accordance to an excerpt of the “Big Brother VIP” broadcast posted to YouTube in 2021.
The Fox News contributor also instructed Jimmy Kimmel that she hadn’t found OJ due to the fact Nicole’s funeral in 1994 and even once banned the Kardashian-Jenner little ones from talking about OJ after the demo.
“That evening the verdict arrived in, Kourtney and Kimberly had been in faculty and naturally they liked their father — and they need to — and they’d been pursuing this for a 12 months and a half,” Jenner explained on United kingdom actuality sequence “I’m A Celeb … Get Me Out Of Listed here!”
In her memoir, “The Tricks of My Daily life,” Jenner wrote about the famed OJ demo and claimed the late Robert Kardashian Sr., who served as a person of Simpson’s protection lawyers during the proceedings, proposed that he considered the managing again dedicated the crimes.
“‘I would’ve been Alright with it if they had gotten him in the first trial,’” Jenner claimed Kardashian instructed her. “The implication was apparent that he thought OJ was responsible.
“I feel [Simpson] received away with two savage murders.”
In her e-book, she also called Simpson, “the most narcissistic, egocentric, neediest a– in the earth of athletics I had at any time viewed.”
On Thursday, following news broke about Simpsons’ demise, Jenner posted on X, previously Twitter, “Good Riddance #OJSimpson.”
Khloe Kardashian
“O.J. was generally our Uncle O.J., Nicole was my Auntie Nicole,” Khloe, who was 9 at the time of the trial, explained to “E! Real Hollywood Story” in 2009.
“You really do not genuinely know what to think or how to understand it. … It’s unfortunate to see your moms and dads go as a result of so a great deal suffering for striving to be correct good friends.”
In 2016, she instructed “Access Hollywood,” that “Kourtney and Kim would go to courtroom with my father all the time. They have been a great deal more included. We were being kids. I believe I was 8 or some thing, so we’re all sheltered from that… So, I do not keep in mind it as vividly as Kourtney and Kim do.”
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Kim Kardashian
“I certainly took my dad’s aspect. We just generally imagined my father was the smartest particular person in the globe, and he really considered in his good friend,” Kim explained to Rolling Stone in 2015.
In October 2020, Kim instructed David Letterman, “My mom was exceptionally vocal on her thoughts — she considered that her friend was murdered by him and that was really traumatizing for her.”
She explained the condition “tore my spouse and children apart” at the time, since, “Then we’d go to my dad’s property and it was a entire other problem there.”
She added, “I just regard his kids,” referring to OJ and Nicole’s young ones, Sydney, 38, and Justin, 35.
“So if I were being to say one thing that would damage someone’s feelings publicly — except if they’re coming for me and I have to defend myself or a family member — then I’m knowledgeable,” she stated.
Nevertheless, irrespective of stating that she would not comment on it, when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” in Oct 2021, in her monologue, she claimed, “It’s mainly because of [my father] that I satisfied my very first Black particular person.”
“Want to choose a stab in the dim at who it was? I know it is sort of strange to try to remember the initially Black particular person you fulfilled, but O.J. does depart a mark or quite a few, or none at all,” she went on. “I however don’t know.”
Nicole’s sister, Tanya Brown, slammed the joke as remaining, “in weak style.”
