News of the death of infamous football legend and actor O.J. Simpson has dominated headlines across the country. But it appears at least one news organization still had former President Donald Trump’s name in mind when writing his obituary.
The Los Angeles Times published an obituary for the former San Francisco 49ers on Thursday after Simpson’s family announced his death. But the Times reported that it incorrectly named Trump as someone who was released from Lovelock Correctional Facility after a 2017 incarceration. archived their version report.
LA Times O.J. Simpson’s obituary had a huge typo pic.twitter.com/s4RXDN4znF
— Dan Berger (@dnbrgr) April 11, 2024
The mistake was quickly discovered and fixed, but not before eagle-eyed readers, including author Dan Berger, posted screencaps and shared them on social media.
“The LA Times made a huge typo in O.J. Simpson’s obituary,” Berger wrote on Twitter.
The meaning of the seemingly random insertion of Trump’s name in the obituary was clear to respondents, with one person commenting, “That’s outrageous!!” lol. He is always in their hearts. ”
Another said: “TDS is real.”
Trump and Simpson were friends in the early 1990s. Simpson attended Trump and Marla Maples’ wedding in 1993. inside edition report. But the two appear to have grown even closer following the trial of the former soccer player for the murders of Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman. Despite the fact that a jury acquitted O.J., the former president told Howard Stern in 2008: [Simpson] killed his wife. ”
“I don’t like people who kill their wives,” Trump told Stern. CNN report. (Related article: “Sad”: Former OJ lawyer Alan Dershowitz reacts to death of famous client)
On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, passed away after a battle with cancer.
He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
His family requests that their wishes for privacy and grace be respected during this time of transition.
-Simpson family
— OJ Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) April 11, 2024
Simpson died Thursday after a battle with prostate cancer, according to a statement released by his family on Twitter. Simpson’s trial for the murders of Brown and Goldman was one of the most iconic and divisive trials in American legal history, and was sometimes referred to by the media as the “trial of the century.” A jury acquitted Simpson in 1995, but a civil court later found him responsible for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the families of the deceased.
