Died about Jay Simpson

He was one of the most famous athletes of the United States of the 1970s-however, he went down in history as a defendant in the case of the murder that split America

In the United States, at the age of 76, a former American athlete and actor about Jay Simpson died . The cause of his death was an oncological disease, which for the first time became known a year earlier. In a statement on the X -Minh social network, his family members said that he died surrounded by children and grandchildren, and asked to "respect the inviolability of private life in this difficult period."

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About Jay Simpson was born in San Francisco in 1947. In his school years, he was a member of one of the local street gangs and several times for a short time went to jail. His life was changed by a random meeting with Baseball Star Willy Mais - according to Simpson himself, she prompted him to seriously play sports. Simpson began to successfully play for the school football school in the position of Ranninbek , and at the end of school was able to get a sports scholarship at the University of South California (USC), which had one of the strongest student football teams in the country.

In 1968, in the last year of study, Simpson, along with the USC, won the US Championship, and he himself received Haisman Trophy - a personal award to the most valuable player of the season. A few months later he was selected under the first number in the NFL draft .

At a professional level, Simpson played 11 seasons for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco Fortinins team. He was one of the best players in the decade. During this period, he fell into the symbolic team of the season five times and the same amount - in the match of all stars, and also set several statistical records of NFL for the Early Economics. Simpson left football at the end of the 1979 season, and after five years he was included in the NFL glory hall.

In the 1980s, Simpson worked as a sports commentator for several years, and also more actively engaged in an acting career (he began to act in episodic roles in the early 1970s). His most famous acting work was the “Naked Pistol” trilogy, where he played the detective of Nordberg, the comrade -in -arms of the protagonist performed by Leslie Nielsen. The first film of the trilogy was released in 1988, the latter in 1994.

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In June 1994, the ex-wife of Jay Nicole Brown-Simpson, whom they divorced a few months before, was killed in their own house in Los Angeles with her new boyfriend Ron Goldman. Simpson became the only suspect of murder. This was indicated by numerous evidence, in particular, bloodied gloves, one of which was found at the crime scene, and the other at his house. Samples of blood on both gloves coincided with samples of Brown-Simson and Goldman. The motive of the crime was the accusation was called jealousy. Simpson categorically denied his guilt.

The process over Simpson has become one of the most illuminated ships in the history of the United States. He had an obvious racial background, since the dead, like the police who arrived at the crime scene, were white, and Simpson himself was dark -skinned. For the American society of that time, this issue continued to remain extremely painful: only two years before that there were pogroms on racial soil in Los Angeles, during which 63 people were killed.

The team of lawyers Simpson convinced the jury that their client became the accused only because of his skin color and racial bias of the police. This strategy worked. Despite a huge amount of evidence, including DNA coincidences, jury, among which were nine dark -skinned, one Latin American and two white women recognized Jay Simpson innocent. Publishing polls conducted shortly after the sentence in 1995 showed that most of the African Americans considered an acquittal to be justified, and most of the white Americans believed that it was carried out for racial motives. After many years, the situation has changed: for example, in 2014, more than half of the African Americans have already stated that they believe about Jay guilty.

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In 1997, two years after the acquittal, Simpson lost to relatives of the dead in a civil court, who recognized him as responsible for the death of Brown-Simpson and Goldman and ordered to pay the families of his ex-wife and her boyfriend a total of 33.5 million dollars. The former athlete actually turned out to be bankrupt, he had to sell his football awards and property.

In 2006, trying to correct the financial situation, Simpson announced the release of the book “If I did this”, which talked about the “hypothetical” description of the murder. The announcement caused a scandal, Simpson was accused of trying to profit from his own crime. The release of the book was ripped off - as a result, it came out a year later, with the changed name “If I did this: the confessions of the killer,” and comments on the family of the murdered Ron Goldman were added to the text. By a court decision, the family of the deceased also received almost all income from the book.

In 2007, Simpson was arrested, after with a group of accomplices, he robbed a sports award merchant in Las Vegas-the former athlete himself partially pleaded guilty: he did not deny the fact of participation in the robbery, but claimed that he only took the trophies from the merchant that belonged to him and were stolen from him.

Simpson was facing a lifelong conclusion, but in the end, a former athlete received 33 years in a prison with the possibility of parole after nine years. In 2017, the commission on the first attempt admitted that he embarked on the path of correction, and Simpson went free. In 2021, the restrictions imposed on UPO were finally removed from him. In recent years, Simpson led a calm life with his family .