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PEOPLE & ARTSWednesday 3 February
O.J. Simpson not happy with portrayal of lawyer on TV show ads
KEN RITTER In this May 14, 2013 file photo, O.J. Simpson sits during a break found guilty of orchestrat- Courtney B. Vance plays
Associated Press on the second day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County ing a September 2007 con- Cochran, with Cuba Good-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. District Court in Las Vegas. frontation with two sports ing Jr. as Simpson, John
Simpson isn’t happy with memorabilia dealers at a Travolta as defense attor-
ads and interviews he’s Associated Press Las Vegas casino hotel. ney Robert Shapiro, David
seen about a cable TV He’ll be eligible for parole Schwimmer as Simpson
series focusing on his 1995 hands into blood-stained Goldman. in 2017. friend Robert Kardashian,
murder acquittal, his at- gloves found at the murder Simpson was later found li- He was a star running back and Sarah Paulson plays
torney said, but he’s not scene. able for the deaths in a civil at USC who won the Heis- prosecutor Marcia Clark.
upset about the way he’s “If it doesn’t fit, you must lawsuit and ordered to pay man Trophy in 1968 and LaVergne said Simpson
depicted. acquit,” he declared. the victims’ families $33.5 played for the Buffalo Bills hasn’t said anything about
“What’s annoying him is The FX series focuses on million. and San Francisco 49ers his own portrayal.
how they’re trying to por- Simpson’s acquittal in the Simpson, 68, is now serving before being inducted “He has thick skin,” the law-
tray Johnnie Cochran,” at- Los Angeles “trial of the nine to 33 years at Love- into the Pro Football Hall of yer said.
torney Malcolm LaVergne century” case stemming lock Correctional Center in Fame in 1985. He was also But Simpson won’t be able
in Las Vegas said ahead from the killings of his ex- northern Nevada for a 2008 a television sportscaster, to see the show himself —
of the Tuesday debut of wife, Nicole Brown Simp- kidnapping and armed movie actor and commer- at least not immediately.
the FX network show, “The son, and her friend, Ronald robbery conviction. He was cial pitchman. The FX network isn’t carried
People v. O.J. Simpson.” The FX series is the debut on cable television in Ne-
LaVergne said Simpson entry for the channel’s vada prisons, state correc-
admired and respected “American Crime Story” tions spokeswoman Brooke
Cochran, a longtime civil anthology. Keast said.q
rights advocate who died
in March 2005, and be-
lieves he’s unfairly depict-
ed as ruthless and overly
ambitious.
Cochran uttered what
became a pop-culture
catchphrase after Simpson
failed during trial to get his
