{"id":25450,"date":"2019-06-15T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1049799"},"modified":"2019-06-15T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T16:41:08","slug":"o-j-simpson-joins-twitter-just-after-25th-anniversary-of-ex-wife-nicoles-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/o-j-simpson-joins-twitter-just-after-25th-anniversary-of-ex-wife-nicoles-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"O.J. Simpson Joins Twitter Just After 25th Anniversary of Ex-Wife Nicole&#8217;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019515\/rs_600x600-190615092139-600-oj-simpson-twitter-first-tweet-cjh-061419.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.887486855941\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.226077812829\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/oj_simpson\">O.J. Simpson<\/a><\/strong> has finally joined social media&#8230;and he&#8217;s apparently going to use it to settle some scores.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old retired&nbsp;NFL star and actor posted his first tweet on Friday night, two days after the 25th anniversary of the double murders of his ex-wife&nbsp;<strong>Nicole Brown Simpson<\/strong>&nbsp;and her friend <strong>Ron Goldman<\/strong>. O.J. was famously tried over the killings, pleaded not guilty and was acquitted in 1995. For more than a year, he has been out on parole after serving time in prison for an unrelated case.<\/p>\n<p>It reads &#8220;Coming soon!!!&#8221; and contains a selfie video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Twitter world, this is yours truly,&#8221; he says, standing in a garden. &#8220;Now, coming soon to Twitter, you&#8217;ll get to read my thoughts and opinions on just about everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, there&#8217;s a lot of fake O.J. accounts out there, so this one, @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealOJ32\/status\/1139743663737622529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheRealOJ32<\/a>&nbsp;is the only official one. So, this should be a lot of fun. I got a little getting even to do,&#8221; he said, smiling. &#8220;So God bless, take care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.053388090349\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.108829568789\">\n<p>O.J.&#8217;s Twitter account remains unverified as of Saturday morning. His profile reads,&nbsp;&#8220;If you don&#8217;t see it here, I didn&#8217;t say it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His profile photo is him sitting on a couch and smiling while wearing a suit with no tie. His cover pic showed him from behind, wearing his Buffalo Bills uniform.<\/p>\n<p>He lists his location as Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp;In 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/884121\/o-j-simpson-released-from-prison-after-9-years-what-s-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">O.J. was released from a prison<\/a>&nbsp;in the area after nine years behind bars for&nbsp;his involvement in a 2007 botched armed robbery in the city.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.896551724138\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"2.7586206896552\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Coming Soon!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R1tXOuuLgO\">pic.twitter.com\/R1tXOuuLgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealOJ32\/status\/1139743663737622529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.974885844749\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.9954337899543\">\n<p>As of Saturday morning, O.J. is following six accounts, belonging to his lawyer&nbsp;<strong>Malcolm LaVergne<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1048596\/where-are-o-j-simpson-and-nicole-brown-simpson-s-kids-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his and Nicole&#8217;s son<\/a> <strong>Justin Simpson<\/strong>, the NFL, USC Football, the Heisman Trophy Trust, and sports journalist <strong>Tim Graham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>O.J.&#8217;s&nbsp;&#8220;Trial of the Century&#8221; over the double murders remains one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history and inspired the hit 2016 FX miniseries <em>American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1049799\/o-j-simpson-joins-twitter-just-after-25th-anniversary-of-ex-wife-nicole-s-murder?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.J. Simpson has finally joined social media&#8230;and he&#8217;s apparently going to use it to settle some scores. The 71-year-old retired&nbsp;NFL star and actor posted his first tweet on Friday night, two days after the 25th anniversary of the double murders of his ex-wife&nbsp;Nicole Brown Simpson&nbsp;and her friend Ron Goldman. O.J. was famously tried over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 02:38:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}