OJ Simpson’s Kids Now: His Son Was Accused of Being the Real Killer Behind Nicole Brown’s Murder
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As the children of one of the most infamous convicted felons in American history, it’s understandable why there’s so much interest in O.J Simpson’s kids and where they are now after his 1994 and 1997 murder trials. Keep reading for what happened to O.J. Simpson’s kids, including which one was accused of being the real killer behind his second wife’s murder.
Simpson, whose full name was Orenthal James Simpson, was a former NFL player and running back for the Buffalo Bills, who was arrested and charged with murdering his second wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994. After what has become of the most famous and publicized murder trials of all time, Simpson was acquitted of the murders. He was, however, found liable for the deaths three years later in a civil suit from the families’ victims.
Simpson faced legal issues again in 2007 when he was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. He was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 33 years’ imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He was granted parole in 2017 and was released from prison that October. He was granted early release from his parole in 2021. Simpson died on April 10, 2024, from prostate cancer. He was 76 years old. Prior to his death, Simpson had paid little of the $33.5 million judgement awarded to Brown and Goldman’s families in 1997.
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Prior to his death, Simpson had three children with his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, whom he was married to from June 24, 1967 until their divorce in March 1979. Simpson started dating his second wife, Nicole Brown, in 1977. They met while Brown was working as a waitress at Beverly Hills nightclub, The Daisy, and while Simpson was still legally married to Whitley.
Simpson and Brown married on February 2, 1985, and went on to have two children. Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992, citing irreconcilable differences. She died two years later. According to TMZ, all of O.J. Simpson’s kids, including his two children with Brown, were with him when he died. Sources also told the site that eeryone who saw Simpson in the days before his death, including his friends, family, and medical personnel, had to sign NDAs before coming into contact with him. The site also reported that a medical professional checked on Simpson the Friday before his death and notified his family that he was starting to pass, which is when they all came to his bedside.
So who are O.J. Simpson’s kids and where are his children now? Read on for what to know about O.J. Simpson’s kids and what happened to them after his murder trial. One of his children was accused of being the real killer behind Brown and Goldman’s murders.
How many kids did O.J. Simpson have?
O.J. Simpson had five kids—four daughters and one son—before his death.
Who are O.J. Simpson’s kids?
Meet O.J. Simpson’s kids and see where they are now after their father’s death ahead.
Arnelle Simpson
Mother: Marguerite Whitley
Birthday: December 4, 1968
Arnelle Simpson is O.J. Simpson’s eldest child and first daughter with his first wife, Marguerite Whitley. Simpson and Whitley welcomed Arnelle on December 4, 1968, a year after they married on June 24, 1967. Arnelle lives in Fresno, California, according to a 2017 report by USA Today. (Fresno County property records obtained by The Fresno Bee also indicated that Whitley had a home in northwest Fresno.)
Of Simpson’s five children, Arnelle was the most public and she was rumored to have dated rapper Tupac Shakur in the 1990s. (Tupac also referenced Simpson in his 1996 song, “Picture Me Rollin’”, in which he raps, “Free like O.J. all day, you can’t stop me.”
Arnelle was also called as a defense witness in Simpson’s murder trial in 1996 and testified for him again in 2013 when he was seeking a new trial for his robbery and kidnapping conviction in Nevada, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Arnelle is also credited for coming up with the idea for Simpson’s controversial 2008 book, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, which she revealed in a 2007 deposition. “This book deal has come to me to give to my dad. How do I go about making it legit?” she told Simpson’s lawyer during the trial, according to The Los Angeles Times. At the time, a Florida bankruptcy court was awarding the rights to the book to the family of Ronald Goldman, who Simpson was found liable of murdering in 1997 and. was ordered to pay more than $33 million in damages.
Jason Simpson
Mother: Marguerite Whitley
Birthday: April 21, 1970
Jason Simpson is O.J. Simpson’s second child and first son with his first wife, Marguerite Whitley. He was born on April 21, 1970. As of 2016, Jason had been working as a chef for two years at the restaurant St. Cecilia in Atlanta, Georgia. While Jason has kept a low-profile since Simpson’s murder trial, author and private investigator William Dear claimed in his 2014 book, O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It: The Shocking Truth about the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, that Jason was the real killer behind Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Holdman’s deaths. “Everything we have in the book is documented. It is not theory or hypothesis. It is fact,” Dear told The Huffington Post in 2012.
In the book, Dear claimed that the knife used in the murder, as well as photos and other evidence from the scene suggest that Jason was the true killer. “When I tell you we have the weapon — we found the weapon in Jason’s storage facility that he failed to make payments on. We know he carried it — his initials were carved in the leather sheath,” Dear said. He continued, “We have emails from his former roommates that were in college with him. We have our suspect’s diaries. We have his forged time card, and we have the vehicle he was driving on the night of the murders.”
As for the motive, Dear claimed that Jason suffered from “intermittent rage disorder,” which led to Holdman and Brown’s deaths. “Our suspect at the time was 5’11” and 235 pounds,” Dear said. “He was 24 years old, and he was on probation for assaulting his previous employer with a knife. In addition to that, he’s had three attempted suicides and has been in a psychiatric unit.”
On the day of the murders—June 12, 1994—Dear reported that Simpson and Brown attended a dance recital for their daughter. He alleged that Jason, for his part, was working as a chef at a Beverly Hills restaurant at the time and put together a special meal for the family that Brown didn’t attend. “You’re dealing with a young man who just weeks prior had checked into a hospital where he said he was out of his medication and was about to rage,” Dear said. “I have no doubt he had no intention of killing her, but [he] confronted her and, as a result, something happened.”
Dear also claimed that Jason had an obsession with knives with he learned about from alleged diaries written by Jason. It’s the year of the knife for me. I cut away my problems with a knife. Anybody touches my friends — I will kill them. I’m also tired of being Dr. Jekyll [and] Mr. Hyde,” he said. He continued, “I have been inducted into the Police Officer Hall of Fame as a private investigator, so my credentials are not [that of] some idiot guy just throwing it out there. My reputation is important to me. I would not say any of this without a great deal of backup.”
Aaren Simpson
Mother: Marguerite Whitley
Birthday: September 24, 1977
Aaren Simpson was O.J. Simpson’s third child and second daughter with his first wife Marguerite Whitley. She was born on September 24, 1977. Aaren died on August 26, 1979, weeks before her second birthday and five months after Simpson and Whitley divorced. Aaren drowned in her family swimming pool while taking a stroll around their home. Her family found her soon after but she was unconscious.
They immediately called 9-1-1 and paramedics were able to revive her by performing CPR. Aaren was then rushed to the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, wherre she laid in a coma and was put on life support. She passed away a few days later due to respiratory failure. She was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Sydney Simpson
Mother: Nicole Brown Simpson
Birthday: October 17. 1985
Sydney Simpson is O.J. Simpson’s eldest child and first daughter with his late second wife Nicole Brown Simpson. She’s his fourth child overall. Sydney was born on October 17, 1985. Sydney was nine years old at the time of Brown’s murder. While Sydney and her brother, Justin Ryan Simpson, have stayed out of the public eye ever since her mother’s death, E! News reported in 2016 that they were both living St. Petersburg, Florida, at the time.
Sydney graduated from Boston University in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She previously lived in Atlanta, Georgia, where her half brother, Jason Brown, also lived. She bought a home in St. Petersburg in 2014.
Justin Simpson
Mother: Nicole Brown Simpson
Birthday: August 6, 1988
Justin Simpson is O.J. Simpson’s second child and first son with his late second wife Nicole Brown Simpson. He’s his fifth and youngest child overall. He was born on August 6, 1988. Justin was five years old at the time of Brown’s murder. As of 2016, he was living in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his older sister, Sydney, and worked as a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker.
Simpson told Tampa Bay Times in April 2016 about why he decided to live in Florida. It’s a great place to live, why not St. Pete?” he said. “It’s gorgeous here.” At the time, his profile on his professional website read: Honesty is giving your word, integrity is keeping it.”
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For more on O.J. Simpson, check out his 2008 memoir, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer. Written by Simpson and told in his own words, the book takes readers through Simpson’s famous murder trial after the brutal 1995 murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, at her home in Brentwood, California. In the book, Simpson reveals how he would have committed the murders, under the pretense that his confession as “hypothetical.” A new edition of the book was published in 2007 and included essays written by members of the Goldman family, a member of the Goldman family legal team, and Simpson’s ghostwriter, revealing more details about his murder trail and his legal issues after Brown and Goldman’s murder. “One of the most chilling things I have ever read,” journalist Barbara Walters described the memoir.
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