Five months after his infamous physical altercation with Will Smith, American comedian Chris Rock faced intense backlash on social media for making a controversial statement about Nicole Brown Simpson while explaining why he wouldn’t be hosting the Oscars the following year.
During a performance on August 28 in Phoenix, Arizona, the 57-year-old performer compared hosting the 2023 Oscars to going back to prison. Nicole Brown Simpson, the late wife of Simpson, went back to the Italian eatery where she was killed.
The comedian allegedly admitted to the Arizona Republic that he “profanely” denied a Super Bowl advertisement. Several social media users criticized the comedian for his inappropriate quip when word of his ostensible joke spread.
O.J. Nicole Brown Simpson was Simpson’s second spouse
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On May 19, 1959, Nicole Brown Simpson was born in Germany to a German mother and an American father. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and after her birth, her family moved to California. When Nicole was 18 years old, she started working as a waitress at The Daisy in Beverly Hills.
She there met O.J., a former NFL great who would become her husband. Simpson. Soon after, they started dating, and they soon fell in love. O.J. Following the dissolution of his first marriage to Marguerite Whitley in 1979, Simpson wed Nicole Brown Simpson in 1985.
A girl named Sydney and a boy named Justin are their two children. However, their passion was short-lived, and she filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.” According to many rumors, OJ used to hit Nicole, and their friends used to help the couple patch things up.
Nicole enjoyed supper with her family and friends at Mezzaluna restaurant on June 12, 1994, after seeing her daughter’s dancing performance. She had left her mother’s sunglasses at Nicole’s place, but her waiter friend Ronald Goldman promised to deliver them.
The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found in the former’s Los Angeles residence a short time later, on June 13. According to an autopsy report, Brown was stabbed seven times in the scalp, neck, and throat, nearly decapitating her.
When law enforcement arrived at O.J. They found a bloodied glove and a white Ford Bronco with blood on it when they arrived at Simpson’s house to inform him. Later, they located another glove connected to the double crime on his property.
OJ had left for Chicago and was not at home. The ex-NFL player was told by the police to turn himself in on June 17, but he fled in a different White Bronco.
O.J. after a brief police encounter and a low-speed chase, the suspect surrendered. He had a revolver, $9,000 in cash, a passport, and a fake mustache when he was discovered.
O.J.’s murder case in court. Simpson’s defense by Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, and Kim Kardashian’s late father, Robert Kardashian, made him one of the most well-known events in the country.
After an eight-month contentious trial, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty in October 1995. In 1997, a judge awarded the families of Brown and Goldman $33.5 million in compensatory damages, and O.J. was adjudged to be “responsible” for the murders.
Twitter responses to Chris Rock’s joke
Twitter users blasted Chris for making offensive remarks about the late Nicole Brown Simpson, as was previously mentioned.
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