Here, the former NFL star was found guilty for the two murders and was ordered to pay $19.5 million in damages as compensation to the families.įollowing the highly publicized trial, Sydney carried on with her normal life.
The public and the families of the victims were dissatisfied with the judgment and so they filed a civil lawsuit against O.J. At the end on the 3rd of October 1995, Sydney Brooks Simpson’s father was found not guilty and acquitted. What ensued afterward was a 9-month long nationally televised trial dubbed “The Trial of the Century”. was believed to be responsible and so he was arrested and charged with murder. An ugly incident, however, happened a couple of years later in 1994 when her mum and a friend named Ron Goldman were found outside her LA apartment stabbed to death. Sydney’s parents’ union endured for seven years, from 1985 to 1992 when they divorced.
