- O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.
- Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 - June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal trials in U.S. history. The daughter of Juditha and Louis Brown, Nicole (like her older sister) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but the family moved to Dana Point, California, where she grew up, …
- Ronald Goldman
Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 - June 12, 1994) was an aspiring actor and part-time model who was murdered in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 at the age of 25. Also found murdered was his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. The subsequent criminal investigation and trial was called by some the "trial of the century".
- Fred Goldman
Fred Goldman is the father of Ronald Lyle Goldman, who was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of retired NFL player O.J. Simpson. Simpson was ordered to pay Goldman and his family $33.5 million in damages in a 1997 civil suit which found Simpson liable for the deaths. He currently lives in Peoria, AZ where he works two jobs, a Scottsdale retail position he’d prefer to keep anonymous and a gig as a part-time mortgage broker.
- Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 - March 29, 2005) was a defense attorney best known for his role in the legal defense for O.J. Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. Cochran also represented Sean "Diddy" Combs (during his trial on gun and bribery charges), Michael Jackson, actor Todd Bridges, football player Jim Brown and rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg as well as Reginald Oliver Denny, …
- Kato Kaelin
Brian "Kato" Kaelin (born March 9 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American aspiring actor who received considerable notoriety due to his peripheral involvement in events surrounding the 1994-95 O.J. Simpson murder case. His name has become something of a byword, as a textbook example of Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame.
- Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Kardashian (born April 18, 1979, Los Angeles, California) is one of the two daughters of deceased O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian, and is known for appearing on the E! network's reality series "Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive".<br> She attended the Southern Methodist University, transferring after two years to the University of Arizona, from where she graduated in May 2002. With her mother Kris she has opened up a children's clothing boutique in Calabasas, …
- Mark Fuhrman
Mark Fuhrman (born February 5, 1952) is a former detective in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who found the bloody glove at the scene of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. He also found a matching glove in the yard of the O.J. Simpson home. In 1970, Fuhrman enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 18. He was honorably discharged in 1975 after attaining the rank of sergeant. He later joined the LAPD as a police officer, …
- Robert Kardashian
Robert Kardashian was a defense lawyer in the trial of O.J. Simpson. Following reports about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings returned from Chicago and were met at the airport by Robert Kardashian who handled Simpson's luggage, some of which was never seen again. In the days following the murder, O.J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house. When O.J. Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, Kardashian, …
- Robert Shapiro
Robert Leslie Shapiro, is a high-profile attorney who is most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman in 1994 (the trial was in 1995). He also worked for famous athletes Darryl Strawberry, José Canseco and Vince Coleman as well as other celebrities like Johnny Carson and Linda Lovelace.
- Dominick Dunne
D ominick Dunne has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993, covering the high-profile trials of the Menendez brothers, O. J. Simpson , and Michael Skakel , to name a few, and writing about subjects from Imelda Marcos to Claus von Bulow, to Warren Beatty and Annette Bening . He files his monthly column, "Dominick Dunne's Diary," for the magazine, sharing his inside stories from Hollywood and high society.
- Denise Brown
Denise Brown (born July 29, 1957) is the older sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, who was found murdered along with her friend Ronald Goldman. Nicole's former husband, O.J. Simpson, was accused of the murder. Born in Germany to an American serviceman father and German mother, Denise grew up in Dana Point, California along with her younger sisters Nicole, Dominique, and Tanya Brown. Denise Brown "led a life remarkable only in its normalcy until June 12, 1994, …
- Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito.
- Barry Scheck
Barry C. Scheck (b. September 19, 1949 in Queens, NY) is an American lawyer. Although he received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder trial, Scheck's more influential legal work lies in his dedication to exposing wrongful convictions as director of the Innocence Project.
- Christopher Darden
Christopher Allen Darden (born April 7, 1956) is an American lawyer and fifteen-year veteran of the LA County District Attorney's office. He was, along with Marcia Clark, a prosecuting attorney in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. He received criticism during the trial from legal observers. His worst blunder may have been his request that Simpson try on the "bloody gloves," which seemed not to fit. Darden received a B.A. from San Jose State University, …
- Al Cowlings
Al Cowlings (born June 16 1947 in San Francisco, California) first gained fame as an American football player, but is also known for his role in the saga of O.J. Simpson's murder trial. He played in the NFL between 1970 and 1979 for the Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, and San Francisco 49ers. Cowlings and Simpson were teammates at Galileo High School, San Francisco City College, …
- Jami Floyd
Jami Floyd is a former lawyer and current "Court TV" news anchor and legal analyst. Floyd joined "Court TV" in February 2005. She is currently the anchor of her own daily program, "Jami Floyd: Best Defense" from 11AM-1PM on weekdays. Prior to coming to "Court TV", Floyd worked as an anchor and correspondent at the network from 1996 to 1998, primarily covering major national news stories, …
- Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, …
- Pablo Fenjves
Pablo F. Fenjves (born 16 August 1953) is a screenwriter and ghostwriter based in Los Angeles, California best known for being the ghostwriter of O.J. Simpson's unpublished account of the O.J. Simpson murder case, the book "If I Did It". Born in Caracas, Venezuela to Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust, Fenjves went to college in Illinois. His first journalism job was in Canada. He joined the "National Enquirer" in Florida in the late 1970s, …
- Joe Delamielleure
Joseph Michael DeLamielleure (born March 16, 1951, Detroit, Michigan) is a former American football offensive lineman who was an All-American at Michigan State. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round, in 1973. He won All-Rookie Honors, after finding out a physical condition with his irregular heartbeat was not serious. Seven times he was named All-Pro and was named to the Pro Bowl six times.
- Orenthal James Simpson
A computer game (from Banana Productions) entitled "O.J.'s All- American Race to Acquittal" debuted in January 1995, and reveals among other things that O.J.'s full name, Orenthal James Simpson, is an anagram of "O.J. on simple harassment.". Implicated for the murder of his wife, 1994. Found not guilty after trial and 1 year of confinement-1995. Football player turned actor/sportscaster Held liable for the deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman by a jury in a civil...
- Michael Baden
Michael Baden is a board-certified forensic pathologist and medical doctor. Baden is the host of HBO's "Autopsy". Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1959. Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.
- Faye Resnick
Faye Resnick was the best friend of Nicole Brown Simpson. She testified in the civil suit of Fred Goldman vs. O.J. Simpson. She claimed that O.J. Simpson stalked his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in the months before she was killed with her friend Ronald Goldman. She claimed that O.J. Simpson used cocaine. O.J.'s defense team said Nicole and Ron may have been killed by drug dealers to scare Resnick to pay her drug debt.
- Paula Barbieri
Paula Barbieri is an American actress. She is best known for being O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend prior to and throughout his 1995/96 murder trial.
- John McKay
John Harvey McKay (July 5, 1923 - June 10, 2001) was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the USC Trojans from 1960 to 1975, and of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976 to 1984. McKay was born in the now-defunct town of Everettsville, West Virginia. After graduating from high school he worked in the coal mines for a year before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force. He finally entered college at the age of 23, …
- Rosa Lopez
Rosa López was a housekeeper from El Salvador and a witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The defense originally hoped that López' testimony would provide an alibi because she had reported having seen Simpson's Ford Bronco parked outside his estate in Rockingham around the approximate time of the murder (around 10:15 pm). Asserting that she wanted to return her native El Salvador because of death threats, …
- Mike Walker
Mike Walker is a gossip columnist for the National Enquirer, and hosted the magazine's 1999-2001 MGM-produced newsmagazine, "National Enquirer TV". He is also the author of the 2005 book "Rather Dumb: A Top Tabloid Reporter Tells CBS How to Do News." He is a guest every Thursday on the Howard Stern Radio Show to play "The Gossip Game." He gives four gossip stories, and the Stern crew guesses which one is false.
- Joe McGinniss
Joe McGinniss (born 1942) is an American writer. He became an overnight success when his first book, "The Selling of the President", landed on The New York Times bestseller list when he was 26 years old, making him the youngest living writer with that achievement. The book described the marketing of Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign. McGinniss followed with several other bestsellers, including his 1983 account of the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, …
- Frank Gatski
Frank Gatski was an American football player. Gatski was born on March 13, 1919 in Farmington, West Virginia. Gatski attended Marshall University and Auburn University and played as a center and linebacker. In the 1940s and 1950s he played center for the NFL teams Cleveland Browns (1946–56) and Detroit Lions (1957). In 12 seasons, Gatski's teams played for the league title 11 times.
- James Harris
James Harris (born July 20, 1947) is a former NFL quarterback and currently the general manager and vice president for player personnel of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- Steve Garvey
Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, and current Southern California businessman.
- Kidd Chris
Chris Derek 'Kidd Chris' Foley (b. May 15, 1974) is an American radio personality, who has hosted radio shows throughout the United States during the late-1990s and early 21st Century. He currently hosts an afternoon-drive talk show for the Philadelphia station WYSP. Born in Chittenango, New York, Foley got his start in radio in the nearby town of Syracuse. He was known as the Kitten Destroyer. He then shortened it to Kidd.
- Roger Cossack
Professor Cossack was a prosecutor and a defense lawyer during his 22 years of practice, and in 1984 he argued U.S. v. Leon before the Supreme Court. Prior to beginning his private practice of law he served on the faculty of the UCLA Law School. In 1994 he joined CNN as the co-host of Burden of Proof and also was the CNN legal analyst.
- Gerald Uelmen
Gerald Uelmen was named one of the "100 Top Lawyers" in California for the second year in a row by the Daily Journal. In June of 2008, he concluded his work as Executive Director of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. This past year, he drafted reports on the California death penalty, Professional Responsibility of Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers, and Remedies for the Wrongfully Convicted for the Commission.
- John Johnson
John Johnson is an American television news reporter. He had been a fixture in New York City television news for many years. He is best known for his long run at WABC, where he served as a rotating anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast in the aftermath of Roger Grimsby's firing (he had been working on "Eyewitness News" since the 1970s). In the 1990s he switched to reporting, and was one of WABC's original reporters at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1994.
- Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond (born May 10, 1944 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American sportscaster for NBC television. Hammond is one of the network's staple on-air presenters, along with Bob Costas and Dan Hicks. Hammond is also the chief play-by-play commentator for Lincoln Financial Sports' (formerly Jefferson Pilot Sports) coverage of Southeastern Conference men's college basketball. He has known his color commentator on the Lincoln Financial broadcasts, Larry Conley, …
- William Hodgman
William Hodgman is the assistant district attorney for Los Angeles. He is best known for being part of the team prosecuting O.J. Simpson.
- Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor. Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald. After Yale, he worked as a film critic at New Times newspaper in Miami and then moved to New York City to work as a freelance writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in such magazines as "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", …
- Peter Lupus
Peter Lupus is an American bodybuilder and actor, born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 17, 1932. Standing 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) with a developed physique, Lupus earned the titles of Mr. Indianapolis, Mr. Indiana, Mr. Hercules and Mr. International Health Physique. Lupus was one of many bodybuilders who followed Steve Reeves into the sword and sandal films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, …
- Jim Braxton
Jim Braxton (born in May 23rd, 1949 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania; died July 28, 1986, at the age of 37) was a professional football fullback for the Buffalo Bills.