OJ Simpson, Ex-US Football Star Acquitted In Wife's Murder, Dies At 76

Los Angeles, United States:

OJ Simpson, the star NFL football player whose 1995 acquittal in the so-called "trial of the century" for the brutal murders of his wife and a male friend gripped the world, has died at the age of 76, his family announced.

"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer," a message signed by the family said on social media site X.

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