![]() ![]() It was in that "other" Los Angeles where riots erupted in 1992, and more than 50 people died with thousands more injured. Then there was the other LA, just a few miles away from Brentwood and his Rockingham estate, a place where millions of other black people lived an entirely different reality at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department. race be damned - was one of the most popular figures around, cultivating the perfect image, even if it hardly lined up with what lay beneath. A world where celebrity was power, and where O.J. Simpson: wealthy, privileged, and predominantly white. There was never one Los Angeles, California. I rebelagainst images, because then, you know, people tend to expect things from you. It was also then that he fell madly in love - with a young, beautiful woman named Nicole Brown. And to a few years after that, when with his celebrity transcending the game, Simpson retired from football and returned to Los Angeles - his acting, advertising, and broadcasting careers in ascendance. To the early 1970's, when he expanded that fame in the NFL, becoming the first player ever to rush for 2000 yards in a season, and emerging as one of the most visible faces in sports. ![]() Simpson rose to instant fame as an unstoppable running back for the USC Trojans. To the late 1960's, when in the heart of Los Angeles, O.J. To generations prior, when African-Americans began migrating to California en masse, trying desperately - and fruitlessly - to outrun the racism that had defined their lives. But as the first episode of "O.J.: Made in America" lays bare, to truly grasp the significance of what happened not just that night, but the epic chronicle to follow, one has to travel back to points in time long before that. To many observers, the story of the crime of the century is a story that began the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside her Brentwood condominium. I wanted people to say, ‘Hey, there goes O.J.’ Read on ESPNĪs a kid growing up in the ghetto, one of the things I wanted most was not money - it was fame.
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