# OJ Simpson has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [April 11, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157 "2024-04-11T14:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/123 "2024-04-12T22:02:41Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > his Hertz commercial One of the OJ Jokes was “Let Hertz get you to the airport and back with an hour to kill!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/124 "2024-04-12T22:36:50Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > He was a bad man, but he did some good things. I think his Hertz commercial was the first mainstream commercial, aimed at a white audience, that featured a Black man. When Bill Cosby dies, how far down in the obituary will we find mention of the Jello Pudding ads? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/125 "2024-04-12T22:39:18Z")
Pretty far. I don’t think those were nearly as important, culturally. Those were also forgettable ads. OJ leaping through the airport was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/126 "2024-04-12T23:07:37Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > OJ leaping through the airport was brilliant. It may be difficult, for those who only really knew Simpson from the murders, and the other terrible things he did and said in the years that followed, to understand just how well-liked he was, as a celebrity, in the '70s and early '80s. Along with Cosby and Muhammad Ali, he was one of the best-known male Black celebrities in the U.S. at that time. He was handsome, he was a major football star, and back then, he was seen as friendly and charismatic. He made a number of movies, and he was everywhere on TV: on those Hertz ads (and other endorsements), as well as a football announcer and frequent guest star on TV shows. Hertz loved him as their spokesperson: their awareness and sales increased dramatically due to that ad campaign, and they worked with Simpson for two decades (he had traveled to Chicago to meet with Hertz executives on the night of the murders). In 1977, _Advertising Age_ magazine named him the “Star Presenter of the Year.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/127 "2024-04-13T00:06:23Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > When Bill Cosby dies, how far down in the obituary will we find mention of the Jello Pudding ads? I seem to recall Karl Malden’s _American Express_ ads were mentioned in his obituaries. Funny what resonates with the hoi-polloi. Not that Karl Malden was in any way a controversial figure, I’m just saying if it’s a thing, they’ll talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/128 "2024-04-13T00:33:25Z")
Hey I was in college. We had a soap we watched everyday in the commons. Those girls(and a few guys) were very bitchy about it. They went out and played Frisbee. I went to nap. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/129 "2024-04-13T00:49:26Z")
At risk of going into a tangent, I recall that the OJ Trial killed or at least crippled Soaps as they were at the time. Now network daytime programming still has a few, but not as much as before; just a lot of chat shows and game shows that can be more easily put on hiatus for writers strikes and terrorist attacks etc. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/130 "2024-04-13T01:24:17Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Who has Kato Kaelin not known peripherally? He’s like celebrity herpes. This is the kind of wordplay I expect and love on the Dope. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/131 "2024-04-13T01:29:41Z")
Kaelin sounds like the drug one might use to treat herpes zoster or nose chancres… If Donald Trump was going to kite a fake check, why would he use his real middle initial? _No! I’m… Donald X. Trump…_ 🤨 (Joking.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/132 "2024-04-13T01:35:33Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > _No! I’m… Donald X. Trump…_ 🤨 [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/5/5e/Snrub.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/5/5e/Snrub.jpg) “Hello. My name is Mr. Pmurt! And I come from… somewhere far away!” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/133 "2024-04-13T01:35:44Z")
His legacy remains undisturbed. > [@](#): > > Page Six is told that Simpson made a decent living after his 2017 release from jail on an unrelated charge — but paid the Brown and Goldman families virtually nothing by running a substantial ring of all-cash business dealings. > > We’re told that the onetime NFL and Hollywood star mostly made his money by doing private autograph signings and demanding stacks of bills for things like podcast appearances — and even charging people to play golf with him. > **[OJ Simpson ran a ring of all-cash business deals to hide proceeds from...](https://pagesix.com/2024/04/12/entertainment/o-j-simpson-ran-a-ring-of-all-cash-business-deals/)** > > “He would sign anything except anything that had to do with the trial or murder,” we’re told. “The stipulation was always that he had to be paid in cash.” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/134 "2024-04-13T01:52:24Z")
There were still newspapers in the days of the trial, and the reporter who covered the story for the local rag went to the supervisor of the local women’s shelters for a quote-- I know that sounds a little-- much-- but she gave a great one after the verdict. “The killer-- whoever he is-- is free.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/135 "2024-04-13T02:13:36Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > There were still newspapers in the days of the trial, In San Diego they did an extra edition of the paper to announce the verdict. It’s the only time in my life I can recall them doing that. (They might have done a few during the USSR coup when news was breaking so fast that CBS was doing a live west coast edition of the evening news because the east coast edition would be out of date by the time 3 hours had passed, but I was a wee lad at the time and I don’t recall.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/136 "2024-04-13T05:43:15Z")
I definitely remember when some OJ memorabilia was auctioned, and someone purchased several items, and proceeded to burn them (yes, he obtained permission first) on the L.A. courthouse steps. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/137 "2024-04-13T06:44:02Z")
I was recovering from my second corneal transplant and was on heavy doses of Percocet. Watching the chase, I kept thinking I was watching a still photograph. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/138 "2024-04-13T10:22:03Z")
I was in junior high at the time, but the seriousness of the trial really didn’t hit home…instead, I vividly remember the chase, the jokes, and all the pop culture stuff. (I really liked the Dancing Itos.) I don’t remember it being a topic of discussion at school, but that was also the point when I spent any free time at school finding somewhere to hide and read a book. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > We had a soap we watched everyday in the commons. Those girls(and a few guys) were very bitchy about it. Yep, you _ **do not** _ mess with the soap operas. I still get phone calls at work from Mom when something interrupts her soap opera for even a minute. (She has Paramount+, but the new episode doesn’t show up there until after 6 PM, and she _must_ watch her soap opera with her lunch.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/139 "2024-04-13T12:27:28Z")
I always wondered if the trial caused a future upsurge in rhyming legal summations. “If the car was late, you must exculpate.” “If he’s leaking brain, you must arraign.” (Etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/140 "2024-04-13T15:21:52Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I still get phone calls at work from Mom when something interrupts her soap opera for even a minute. (She has Paramount+, but the new episode doesn’t show up there until after 6 PM, and she _must_ watch her soap opera with her lunch.) Can she adjust to watching the previous day’s episode with her lunch? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/141 "2024-04-13T20:00:13Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > If the Goldman family has not received all of the money they were awarded in the civil suit, do they have any claim on his estate? > **[Executor of O.J. Simpson's estate plans to fight payout to the families of...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/executor-o-j-simpsons-estate-155346575.html)** > > The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will work to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a California civil jury nearly three decades ago in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown... > LAS VEGAS (AP) — The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will work to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a California civil jury nearly three decades ago in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife [Nicole Brown Simpson](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Nicole%20Brown%20Simpson) and her friend [Ron Goldman](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Ron%20Goldman). > > … > > LaVergne, who had represented Simpson since 2009, said he specifically didn’t want the Goldman family seeing any money from Simpson’s estate. > > “It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” he told the Review-Journal. “Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157/142 "2024-04-13T20:12:51Z")
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