O.J. Simpson—A Life of Crime, Possible CTE, and the Outliving of a Legendary Status

Media Studies

Skylar Taylor, Student Editor

After being convicted in 2008 for armed robbery and kidnapping in Nevada, after coauthoring a book called If I Did It, after his $33.5 million ‘wrongful death’ civil judgement for the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman a mere 15 months after a Los Angeles jury had acquitted him of the crime, and after allegedly confessing to his agent that he committed the very murders he was found ‘not guilty’ of…many of us believed that the media frenzy surrounding O.J. Simpson would subside. How wrong we were. After a popular and acclaimed miniseries drama, as well as a parole hearing that wiped the daytime slate of television shows off the dial (just as the trial did 20 years earlier), it seems likely that Simpson will remain a media object for the foreseeable future.

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