Simp ‧ son, O.J. /ˈsɪmps ə n/ BrE AmE
(1947–) a former US football player who was one of the most successful players of the 1970s, and who later became an actor. In 1994 he was charged with murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. The ↑ trial was watched on television by people all over the world. In the end, the ↑ jury decided that he did not kill her. Later, relatives of the murdered people won a ↑ civil court case against him and he was ordered to pay them $8.5 million.