O. J. Simpson

O.J. Simpson married Marguerite L. Whitley on June 24, 1967. The couple had three children Arnelle L. Simpson, Jason L. Simpson and Aaren Lashone Simpson.

In 1977 he met Nicole Brown, a waitress at a night club and started dating her while he was still married to Marguerite L. Whitley.

O.J. Simpson’s marriage with Marguerite culminated into divorce in March 1979.

O.J. Simpson was born on July 9, 1947, in Putrero Hill, California, in the family of Eunice and Jimmy Lee Simpson. His father was a chef and bank custodian and his mother was a hospital administrator.

Soon after his birth he developed rickets and had to wear braces on his legs till he was five. In 1952, his father left the family when he was still very young and his mother had to take responsibility of raising the four children.

He joined the ‘Persian Warriors’, a street gang in his early teens and was confined at the ‘San Francisco Youth Guidance Center’ for a short while.

He played football for his team the ‘Galileo Lions’ at the ‘Galileo High School’ (now known as ‘Galileo Academy of Science and Technology’) in San Francisco.

He attended the ‘City College of San Francisco’ from 1965 to 1966 and played in both offense and defence. He was inducted as a running back in the ‘Junior College All-American Team’.

His professional career in football started after he joined the ‘Buffalo Bills’ in 1969. The Sport magazine named him ‘Man of the Year’.

For five consecutive years from 1972 to 1976, O.J. Simpson topped 1,000 yards rushing. He led the rushing title of ‘NFL’ four times. He holds the record of being the first player ever to cover over 2000 yards in a season breaking a record of 1863 by Jim Brown. Though 6 players have crossed the mark, he remains the only one to cover it in fourteen-game season that the NFL later changed to sixteen-game season.

He made a successful endeavour in films while continuing with his professional football. Some of his films of the 1970s include ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974), ‘The Klansman’ (1974) and ‘Capricorn One’ (1978).

His tenure in the 1977 season in ‘Buffalo Bills’ was cut short due to injury.

From 1978 to 1979, he played for the ‘San Francisco 49ers’ after being traded by the ‘Buffalo Bills’. He was the highest paid footballer of ‘NFL’ fetching a salary of $806,688 when he retired in 1979 due to a damaged knee.