Sports Illustrated reported in February that Simpson's pension from the NFL could pay him as much as $25,000 per month. That adds up to $300,000 annually. "There is another pension as well that he gets from the Screen Actors Guild," Carl Douglas, one of Simpson's attorneys in the historic 1995 double-murder trial, told CBS News this week.
Yet the jurors, sequestered for nearly nine months, were only paid $5 a day for their community service.
As it turns out, Simpson was allowed to keep generating memorabilia during his trial, which allowed to afford the "Dream Team" of lawyers — which the doc notes cost him an estimated $50,000 a day.
The attorneys representing O.J. Simpson included F. Lee Bailey, Robert Blasier, Shawn Chapman Holley, Robert Shapiro, and Alan Dershowitz. Johnnie Cochran later became the defense team's lead attorney. The attorneys were known as the “Dream Team."
The team included Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, Carl Douglas, Shawn Chapman, Gerald Uelmen, Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Robert Blasier, and William Thompson.
$11 millionOn the morning of June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson was worth an estimated $11 million. Within hours, he would stop earning and start spending.
His practice as a lawyer earned him great wealth. With his earnings, he bought and drove cars such as a Jaguar and a Rolls-Royce. He owned homes in Los Angeles, two apartments in West Hollywood and a condo in Manhattan. In 2001, Cochran's accountant estimated that within five years he would be worth US$25–50 million.
Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American attorney and businessman. He gained recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial.
4. Robert Kardashian and OJ Simpson. Robert Kardashian became well-known for defending his friend O.J. Simpson in a murder trial.
June 16, 1994Nicole Brown Simpson / Date of burial
While the murder trial was going on, three civil suits for wrongful death had been filed against O.J. Simpson: by Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman; by Ron's mother, Sharon Rufo, who had divorced Fred when Ron was six years old; and by the Brown family. California law permitted two kinds of suits.
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Simpson trial. …as the “Dream Team,” included F. Lee Bailey, Robert Blasier, Shawn Chapman Holley, Robert Shapiro, and Alan Dershowitz; Johnnie Cochran later became the defense team's lead attorney.
O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his Dream Team defense attorneys from left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, and Robert Blasier, seated at left, at the close of defense arguments Thursday, Sept. 28, 1995.
Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz (L) confers with defendant OJ Simpson,as lead attorney Robert Shapiro listens, during a pretrial hearing on evidence suppression in the Simpson murder case.
To the millennial people, Robert Kardashian is now famous as the father of celebrities and global heartthrobs Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian. But the 90’s saw him as a celebrity on his own right. He began his career in the late 1960s as a lawyer.
It was around 1973 that he met O.J. Simpson, a football star of that time, and developed a friendship. The friendship soon turned into a professional relationship, with the two setting up a music video company and a frozen yogurt shop and hiring criminal defense attorney.
Following Simpson’s acquittal, the relationship between the two once-close friends soured. In 1996, Robert Kardashian mentioned to ABC News that he was suspicious of the innocence of Simpson. He clearly said that he had doubts with the blood evidence.
It was a long time ago - Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman have been dead for nearly 25 years. That’s a long time and a number of things have happened in the interim. People don’t spend every waking moment thinking about things that they did in the past (even bad things) as it would quickly drive them insane.
Most importantly, it was left completely up to OJ himself to demonstrate whether the gloves fit or not. If he was able to get the gloves on, he might spend the rest of his life in prison. He needed them to not fit, so the attempt to get the gloves to fit on his hands was laughably weak.
Instead, in essence, OJ Simpson signed his name to a book that somebody else was paid to write for him. Second, anyone who has read the book can attest, it has very, very little information. Some people wanted to claim that it was some sort of crazy confession.
The truly sad thing though is he did get away with the murder of his wife, the mother of his children Nicole Brown Simpson and an innocent who had only been at the residence to return an item she had left at the restaurant he worked at the previous night.
wrote, after a judge ordered it. His legal bills for that trial totaled approximately 10 million dollars. However, he has stiffed his attorneys, and paid them only a small fraction of that.
First, it was ghost-written. OJ Simpson, for all his talents that he did have, was not an accomplished writer. Ghost-writing is a popular method for celebrities to “write” books to capitalize on their fame and notoriety, without actually having to be capable of writing a book themselves.
Then, OJ was basically drained financially by the first trial. In fact, some lawyers (such as Alan Dershowitz) have said they still haven't been paid what they are owed, all these years later.
From an original jury pool of 40 percent white, 28 percent black, 17 percent Hispanic, and 15 percent Asian, the final jury for the trial had ten women and two men, of whom nine were black, two white and one Hispanic. The jury was sequestered for 265 days, the most in American history.
Fears grew that race riots, similar to the riots in 1992, would erupt across Los Angeles and the rest of the country if Simpson were convicted of the murders. As a result, all Los Angeles police officers were put on 12-hour shifts. The police arranged for more than 100 police officers on horseback to surround the Los Angeles County courthouse on the day the verdict was announced, in case of rioting by the crowd. President Bill Clinton was briefed on security measures if rioting were to occur nationwide.
The two lead prosecutors were Deputy District Attorneys Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden. Clark was designated as the lead prosecutor and Darden became Clark's co-counsel. Prosecutors Hank Goldberg and William Hodgman, who have successfully prosecuted high-profile cases in the past, assisted Clark and Darden. Two prosecutors who were DNA experts, Rockne Harmon and George "Woody" Clarke, were brought in to present the DNA evidence in the case and were assisted by Prosecutor Lisa Kahn.
J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald "Ron" Goldman.
Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to the Los Angeles drug trade, and that Michael Nigg, a friend and co-worker of Goldman, was murdered as well. Simpson himself has stated in numerous interviews that he believes the two had been killed over their involvement in drug dealing in the area, and that other murders at the time were carried out for the same reason. Brown, Simpson believed, had been planning to open a restaurant using proceeds from cocaine sales. Mezzaluna was reportedly a nexus for drug trafficking in Brentwood.
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During his playing days, Simpson was already becoming a presence in the entertainment world. He appeared in several hit movies and TV series, including the classic miniseries Roots. Furthermore, his commercials for Hertz car rental were a massive hit with audiences. Simpson became a household name beyond football fans.