O.J. Simpson died in 2024.
Posted by The Rubin Report, Checked
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The Rubin ReportOct 20, 2026
Multiple independent sources, including AP (tier1), ABC News, People, and Britannica, report that O.J. Simpson died of cancer on April 10, 2024, in Las Vegas, so the claim that he died in 2024 is supported. One ESPN item gives 2023 as the year, but it is an outlier against the consistent record and does not change the verdict.
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… Simpson was found liable for the murders in a civil trial in 1997 and ordered to pay 33.5 million dollars to Brown and Goldman's families. Goldman's family declined to comment on the Times investigation. In a statement, the executor of Simpson's estate, Malcolm Laverne, said the only three people whose first-hand accounts of that night matter the most are now deceased: Brown, Goldman, and Simpson, who died in 2024. None of those three people can speak for themselves today, Laverne said, and I certainly cannot speak for them about what happened that night. …
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Supports. AP reports that Simpson died Wednesday, April 10, 2024, of prostate cancer at age 76.[1]
Supports. ABC News reports the family announced that Simpson died on April 10 after a battle with cancer, at age 76.[2]
Supports. Wikipedia, People, Britannica, and the Oregonlive/AP report all give April 10, 2024 as the date of death.[3][4][5][6]
Contradicts. An ESPN article gives the year of death as 2023 rather than 2024, which conflicts with every other source and appears to be an error.[7]
Context. The extracted claim matches the passage, which says Simpson 'died in 2024'; the passage is the executor's statement quoted by the post.
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 6 not rated
- 1O.J. Simpson's murder trial lost him the American dreamapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2OJ Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76abcnews.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3O.J. Simpson | Trial, Cause of Death, Police Chase, Book, & Factsbritannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4How Did O.J. Simpson Die? Inside His Final Years Fighting ...people.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5O. J. Simpson - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6O.J. Simpson, whose murder trial riveted the nation, dies at 76oregonlive.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7O.J. Simpson dies of cancer at age 76, family saysespn.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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