O J Simpson

Fourteen years ago today -- shock and awe. After 16 tawdry months of the Simpson case wallpapering the public square, a Los Angeles criminal court jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of the hideous murders of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ron Goldman. The trial made a lot of people famous, but one of its insiders is someone you've probably never heard of: Jerrianne Hayslett. As the information officer for the Los Angeles Superior Courts, she danced a daily minuet between the media and the courts, and every reporter, photographer and news technician among the hundreds who buzzed around the trial wanted her ear and her help.

A multimillion-dollar collection of original work by famed Pop Art icon Andy Warhol was stolen last week from a Los Angeles home, police said Friday. On Sept. 3, a housekeeper for noted art collector Richard L. Weisman walked into the dining room of Weisman's residence and saw that 11 large portraits that had been on the walls the day before were gone, according to Det. Donald Hrycyk, head of the LAPD's art theft detail. The housekeeper called police, and investigators soon brought in Hrycyk, who has spent years chasing forgers and thieves in the shady art underworld.

Dominick Dunne, the bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer who chronicled the misdeeds of the rich and famous with wicked glee -- most memorably in his highly personal accounts of the trials of Claus von Bulow, the Menendez brothers and O.J. Simpson -- has died. He was 83. Dunne died Wednesday at his home in New York City, Vanity Fair reported on its website. Dunne had recovered from prostate cancer in 2001 but was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year. Although ill, he covered Simpson's recent armed robbery trial in Las Vegas, which resulted in Simpson's conviction -- a verdict Dunne had waited more than a decade for. Covering the last Simpson trial capped an extraordinary career that had bloomed from tragedy.

Nevada Supreme Court justices appeared cool Monday to arguments from O.J. Simpson's attorneys that the former football star be granted bail while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping convictions. Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said the notoriety of the NFL Hall of Fame running back -- who was famously acquitted in Los Angeles of the 1994 double murder of his ex-wife and her friend -- made it impossible for him to flee if he were to be released on bail. "Mr.

The suit O.J. Simpson wore the day he was acquitted of murder charges hangs in the bedroom closet of a house south of Fresno. Or maybe it doesn't. It depends on the mood of the balding, bespectacled former sports agent who owns the house and maybe the suit. "I've had it in my possession since the morning after the verdict," Mike Gilbert declared at the start of a recent interview. Twenty minutes of circuitous conversation later, he backtracked: "When I told you that before, I wasn't under oath."

O.J. Simpson's attorneys appealed the fallen football star's armed robbery and kidnapping conviction to Nevada's highest court Tuesday, arguing that the judge behaved improperly, the largely white jury lacked diversity and the overall trial was "fundamentally unfair." "Any one of the errors discussed would warrant reversal; taken as a whole they mandate it," Simpson attorneys Yale Galanter and Malcolm LaVergne wrote in their brief to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Robert L. Stone, a former top executive at the Hertz Corp. who in the 1970s hired O.J. Simpson as a pitchman for the car rental giant, has died. He was 87. Stone died Wednesday of heart failure at his home in Boca Grande, his wife, Sheila Muldowny Stone, said Saturday. Stone became the chairman and chief executive of Hertz in 1972, when the company was a subsidiary of RCA Corp. It is now known as Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

A key witness in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas trial acknowledged to a Nevada investigator that the former NFL star paid him off, the investigator told a judge in Santa Monica on Friday. The investigator from the Clark County district attorney's office said Alfred Beardsley, a loquacious collectibles dealer whose credibility was frequently assailed during the trial, claimed Simpson gave him his Hall of Fame ring in exchange for altering his testimony to help the defense.

The men who carried handguns into a hotel room accompanying O.J. Simpson in an attempt to retrieve sports memorabilia received sentences of probation Tuesday. Simpson was sentenced last week to at least nine years in prison. But Michael McClinton and Walter Alexander -- who testified against the NFL Hall of Fame running back -- avoided prison time.

This was not the O.J. Simpson of old. His wrists shackled, eyes reddened and husky voice cracking, the fallen football star -- who famously was acquitted of double murder in Los Angeles -- was sentenced Friday to up to 33 years in prison for robbing a pair of memorabilia dealers. He will be eligible for parole in nine years.