Back in the mid 90s, while the nation was focused on whether O.J. Simpson was responsible
for taking the lives of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, there were four people with
a particular interest in the outcome of the case: his children.
Here's what they've been doing in the years since their father's so-called "Trial of the
Century."
Of all of O.J.
Simpson's children, Arnelle Simpson has been one of the most outspoken supporters of their
father.
She appeared on behalf of her siblings at O.J.'s 2017 parole hearing, testifying to
the Nevada state parole board,
"We want him to come home so that we can move forward for us, quietly, but to move forward.
As a family we recognize he's not the perfect man, but as a man and a father he has done
his best."
"We want him to go home and I know in my heart that he is very humbled."
Four years earlier, Arnelle wrote a letter to the same parole board, at the request of
O.J., who had reportedly asked that she not be present in court in order to keep the media
spotlight away from her siblings.
According to the Daily Mail, Arnelle also testified in a 2013 hearing when O.J. requested
a new trial for the 2008 armed robbery conviction that landed him in prison.
Arnelle has been dodging the press and trying to rebuild her life for years, but holding
down a job seems to have been a real challenge.
According to Georgia Newsday in 2014, the only role that she's held for a prolonged
period is caretaker.
She was forced to step up and help raise her two half-siblings when their mother was tragically
taken from them.
When O.J. was released in 2017 after nine years behind bars, his bank balance apparently
wasn't looking too healthy, and Arnelle was reportedly to blame.
She confirmed to Georgia Newsday that she'd been left in charge of his finances during
his incarceration.
According to her, the money went to O.J.'s legal costs.
But according to a family source who spoke to the National Enquirer, Arnelle had a habit
of spending her dad's cash on shopping sprees and booze.
According to the insider, O.J. often lost his temper with his daughter over her alcohol
consumption, which has apparently become a problem in recent years.
Things have reportedly been getting better between the pair since O.J.'s release from
prison.
In 2019, the Associated Press revealed that Arnelle now lives with her dad in Vegas a
lot of the time.
According to ABC News, Arnelle stated that the original idea for O.J.'s wildly controversial
book If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, in which he wrote an "imagined scenario" about
the 1994 murders, actually came from a friend of hers.
After filing for bankruptcy, Arnelle's company lost the rights to the book to Fred Goldman,
Ron's father, who successfully argued that any profits from the book should go towards
the largely unpaid $19 million civil settlement awarded to the Goldmans in 1997.
After much legal wrangling, the book was finally published by the Goldman family in 2007.
According to the Los Angeles Times, within a month of its publication, it had already
sold more than 100,000 copies and made its way onto bestseller lists.
After leaving military school, O.J.'s oldest son, Jason Simpson, reportedly turned to drugs
and alcohol, according to New York magazine.
Despite some apparent demons, Jason managed to carve out a career as a chef.
As of 2017, he was working in an Atlanta restaurant.
Young Sydney Simpson reportedly had a tight bond with her father throughout his 1995 trial,
perhaps unaware of what was going on in the outside world.
Sadly, that bubble would soon burst.
One of O.J.'s friends told RadarOnline that Sydney became, quote, "a very tough [and]
angry girl" who got into a lot of trouble as she got older.
At one point, she apparently started to believe that her father was guilty of the murders,
but an ex-boyfriend confirmed to Radar Online in 2014 that she no longer feels that way.
More recently, Sydney has gone out of her way to avoid the press, even changing her
name.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, she's made a number of smart property investments in
Florida under the name of her own company, Simpsy, LLC.
Justin Simpson was only five years old when he lost his mother.
Eight years after Nicole's death, Justin told the Miami Herald that he thinks about the
tragedy "from time to time," but he doesn't dwell on it.
He found a fresh start in Florida, landing a job as a realtor in St. Petersburg.
In 2016, he told the Tampa Bay Times that the real estate game kept him pretty busy,
but it appears as though he's still got time for his old man, he spent Thanksgiving 2018
with O.J.
Still, it's safe to assume the family doesn't speak much about the past when they're together.
O.J. told the Associated Press in 2019,
"We don't need to go back and relive the worst day of our lives.
My family and I have moved on to what we call the 'no negative zone.'
We focus on the positives."
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