O.J. Simpson and his connection to South Florida NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

O.J. Simpson, the former football star and Miami resident who was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend in what became known as “The Trial of the Century,” has died after a battle with cancer at 76, his family said.

His family announced his death on his X account. Early in 2024, it was reported that Simpson had been diagnosed with and was being treated for prostate cancer. 

The former NFL star moved to Miami after he was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.

The trial itself was a spectacle, the focus of breathless gavel-to-gavel TV coverage, with Simpson represented by a legal “Dream Team” that included the late Johnnie Cochran Jr. and F. Lee Bailey.

Three years later Simpson was, however, found liable for the deaths by a California civil court jury and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families.

In the late 90s, O.J. moved his family to Miami, marking …