O.J. Simpson, 76, appears frail spotted walking in Las Vegas
O.J. Simpson was spotted looking extremely frail and appearing to limp through the streets of Las Vegas on Monday.
In photos obtained by The Post, the former Buffalo Bills running back was spotted hunched over after getting out of his black SUV.
Simpson, 76, wore a gray polo shirt with a matching tracksuit jacket and dark sweatpants for the outing. He also sported a baseball cap and held an iPad under his arm.
The former athlete’s 11-year career in the NFL ended in 1979 after he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers following a knee injury in 1978.
After Simpson was found guilty in 2008 robbing sports memorabilia, the Daily Mail reported in 2015 that while serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, he was forced to use a cane to move about.
Simpson was granted parole and released in 2017.
During the bombshell 1994 case involving the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, the former athlete’s attorney Johnnie Cochran claimed that Simpson couldn’t have committed the murders due to the injuries he endured during his football career. The star had gone through two surgeries on his left knee in the late 1970s.
Cochran, who died in March 2005 at the age of 67, asked Simpson to show the jury the multiple surgery scars on his leg.
Simpson was later acquitted of all charges in the case, which was dubbed the Trial of the Century by the media.
Since being released, Simpson has sporadically popped up at public events.
He’s also been vocal on social media. Simpson recently told his followers that he believed the trial of South Carolina socialite Alex Murdaugh could have ended like his own.
“I don’t know why they think I’m an expert,” Simpson chuckled in a March video. “People keep asking me my opinion of the Alex Murdaugh trial.”
“I am not qualified to really say if the guy did it or you didn’t do it,” Simpson went on. “But from what I’ve seen, do I think it’s more likely that he did it? Yes. But more likely equals reasonable doubt.”
Simpson also chimed in during Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski-collision lawsuit, saying “accidents happen.”
“I was watching today, I saw the run that their accident happened on. It was the same run that my accidents happened at Deer Valley, and I don’t know who you can determine whose fault it was,” he wrote.
“Deer Valley is a classy place. I never went back, mainly because I thought [the runs] were real narrow, certainly far narrower than most of the places that I went skiing,” Simpson continued. “But accidents happen skiing. I don’t know how you could try to sue anybody for crashes on a ski slope. You see it all the time.”
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