If he did it.
OJ Simpson, who was on trial for the double murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995, was controversially acquitted in one of the 20th century’s most famous trials.
In the new Netflix docuseries “American Manhunt: OJ Simpson” (out Wed. Jan. 29 on Netflix), Simpson’s former agent, Mike Gilbert, recalls a chilling conversation they had shortly after Simpson was acquitted.
Gilbert, who had worked with Simpson for 18 years, asked the former NFL star and actor, “What happened that night?’” referring to the night of the murders.
“I said, ‘You know, OJ, I always thought you did it,’” Gilbert said.
He alleged that in response, Simpson “glanced up.”
“He just kind of shook his head and he said, ‘If Nicole wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife, she would still be alive,’” he claimed Simpson replied.
Gilbert said that was the end of their relationship.
“I didn’t sleep very well that night….So, I quit,” he said.
Nicole – who was married to OJ from 1985 to 1992 – and Goldman were stabbed to death in 1994 outside the former’s home in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. She was 35 and Goldman was 25. Although OJ was acquitted in the murder trial, two years later, a civil jury found OJ liable for wrongful death and he was ordered to pay millions to the families.
Simpson ultimately lived to age 76, before he died of cancer in 2024.
Goldman’s sister, Kim, recalled onscreen in the doc that at Ron’s funeral, “My brother had his neck severed. So they had to hide certain parts so that they wouldn’t see it…it was all very super f–ked up.”
Tom Lange, the cop who made the phone call to inform Simpson that his ex-wife had been murdered, noted onscreen that the former football star got upset on the phone.
“But he doesn’t ask what happened, or anything else. Not a lot of questions from Simpson…Didn’t ask, ‘How did she die, who would kill her?’ We don’t get any of that, which doesn’t make any damn sense.”
Lange also recalled that when he made the same phone call to inform Nicole’s family that she had been killed, “I hear screaming, ‘that motherf-er, that son of a bi–h, he killed her’ on the phone.”
He clarified that the woman screaming was Denise, Nicole’s older sister, who repeatedly said: “It’s OJ! It’s OJ! I know he did it!’”
Ron Shipp, a former cop who was friends with Simpson and testified during the trial, recalled visiting Simpson at the latter’s home shortly after the murders.
When he noticed a cut on Simpson’s finger and asked about it, Simpson told him he cut it in his car seat after he dropped his phone.
However, when another visitor came over and asked about Simpson’s finger, Shipp observed Simpson telling a different story.
“He goes, ‘I cut my finger on a glass in Chicago,’” Shipp recalled.
Simpson allegedly told him “I’ve had dreams of killing her” about Nicole. Nicole also confided in Shipp before her death, “Your friend OJ hit me. And this is not the first time.”
After seeing Simpson allegedly lie easily about the cut on his finger, Shipp recalled, “I left his house and got in my car and I called my wife first and I was crying.”
He explained, “I was crying, because I knew he did it.”
