O.J. Simpson is a former NFL running back who was connected to the 1994 murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. He was acquitted in a televised and widely watched criminal trial but was found responsible for the murders in a civil trial in 1997. After being acquitted, Simpsons fall from grace throughout the mid-90s and early 2000s has been the subject of numerous films, television series, parodies, and documentaries.

In 2008, Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas and sentenced to 33 years in prison. He was granted parole in 2017 and released from prison a few months later in October. Currently, he is a free man and resides in Las Vegas.

Simpson was also ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the Brown and Goldman families in a civil suit from the victims families. To date, he has paid little of the judgment, and most of it remains unpaid.