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O.J. Simpson, the college and NFL football legend, Hollywood actor and pitchman who was famously acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend in 1994, resulting in the televised trial of the century, died Wednesday of cancer, his family has announced. He was 76.
Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman outside her West Los Angeles apartment in June 1994 that led to the infamous slow-speed pursuit that captivated the nation and much of the world.
When police sought to question him about the killings, Simpson vowed to turn himself in at LAPD headquarters but failed to show and then was announced to be a fugitive from justice. His white Ford Bronco, driven by longtime friend and ex-teammate A.C. Cowlings, was spotted on an Orange County freeway, and the most famous of all televised TV pursuits was on. Crowds lined the overpasses to witness history, many cheering him on.
Cowlings told police via telephone that Simpson had a gun pointed to his head, and police allowed him to drive the Bronco back to Simpson’s stately home on Rockingham Avenue in Brentwood, where he eventually was taken into custody.
The resulting trial was televised and flat-out mesmerized the country. It would make household names of such people as Johnnie Cochran, Marcia Clark, Kato Kaelin, Robert Shapiro, Mark Fuhrman, Robert Kardashian and many others.
Simpson was among the greatest football players ever, winning a Heisman Trophy and national at USC before moving to the NFL in 1968. He became the first player to rush for more than 2,000 yards, in 1973.
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Nuke Nixon
One Shot, One Kill
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Dickey Betts, the Allman Brothers Band’s Grammy-winning co-founding guitarist, singer and songwriter behind such classics as “Ramblin’ Man,” “Blue Sky” and “Jessica,” died today of cancer at his home in Osprey, FL. He was 80.
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Apr 18th, 2024 08:36 PM |
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Nuke Nixon
One Shot, One Kill
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Location: Great Northwest |
Samantha Davis, the wife of Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis, has died aged 53.
Warwick announced the news in a statement shared to the BBC, revealing she had died on March 24.
Samantha co-founded the dwarfism charity Little People UK and featured in the final Harry Potter film, alongside Warwick.
“Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs,” Warwick said in the statement to the BBC.
He added that she was his “most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”.
The actor continued: “She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life she had a wicked sense of humour and always laughed at my bad jokes.”
The couple met on the set of George Lucas’s film Willow and married three years later in 1991.
Samantha also played a goblin in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 while her husband played both Professor Flitwick and the goblin Griphook in all eight films in the franchise.
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