OJ Simpson and rapper Bushido: What connects the two together

I recently clicked through the online catalog of an auction in which OJ Simpson’s estate was auctioned-he died last year at the age of 76. Not out of private interest, of course. Strictly professionally. The offer? Sobering. An old Bible, a faded driver’s license, a few leather gloves. Pretty little for an American sports icon.

But then I put out: a framed star-Cover was on offer.

It was the edition of October 12, 1995. The cover picture shows OJ Simpson grinning after the acquittal. The heading was: “The victory celebration: a judgment divides America”. Why did OJ Simpson be frame this cover of all people? Was it a trophy for the most controversial acquittal in US history?

Simpson was charged with the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Nicole was his ex-wife, Ron a young waiter and friend of her. On June 12, 1994, both were brutally murdered with numerous knife stings in front of Nicole’s house in Los Angeles. The burden of proof was overwhelming: traces of blood, DNA evidence, a strange alibi-and a history of domestic violence against his wife. Everything spoke against OJ Simpson and an acquittal.

Perhaps Oj Simpson was sitting on the sofa in the years after the astonishing judgment, looking at the star-Cover and thought: “How, to the devil, did I just get out of this matter?” Or it was much more banal: the cover flattered him. He had no idea what these German words meant, but the colors fit well with the carpet. You don’t know. The only thing is: that star-Cover in the wooden frame hung in his house for years.

And suddenly I remembered: I’ve seen something like that before. At some point around 2015, I saw a TV documentary about Bushido. He stood in his villa in Berlin, talked seriously in the camera – and behind him, on the wall, was framed. star-Cover with his face.

The title line: “Bushido and the Mafia”. I found that very strange. Because two years earlier I had a couple myself star-Mollegen researched and wrote to exactly this cover story. That hadn’t been a flattering homage. At that time we showed that Bushido maintained close connections to the notorious Abou Chaker clan and even had to cede 50 percent of his income from the head of the family.

Most people would hardly hang such an unveiling into the living room. But Bushido? Took it sporty. Finally, bad press was also a good press for his gangsta rapper image. So he let it star-Cover frame and hanged it into its villa. A gold record for organized crime.

But whether that framed star-Cover survived his move from Berlin to Dubai in 2022? I doubt it. Maybe one day it will appear in Bushido’s estate – just like Simpsons copy. A collection of old, tapped porn magazines from Simpson’s detention period is said to be auctioned. However, contrary to expectations, it was not included in the auction offer. You wanted to leave a little bit of the remaining honor.

Even if the family’s shortage of money is big. In 1997, Simpson was sentenced to pay $ 33.5 million to the families of the victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. In the meantime, it has become over $ 117 million with interest. Now the heirs hope to bring back at least a small part through the auction.

And while I write that, I ask myself: Should I bid? $ 50. There is still everything for me. But what if I get the contract? Then I would have a problem. My wife comes from an interior maker family. I should only hang this framed cover in the laundry cellar.

You wrong OJ Simpson if you only connect it to this scandal process after your death. He was one of the largest football players in the United States. And even more important – what many forgot: in his role as a detective Nordberg, he shone in “The Naked Cam”.

Simpson played the foolish but indestructible sidekick by Leslie Nielsen’s figure Frank Drebin. Nordberg survived everything in the film series: Kugelhagel, a steam roller, explosions – nothing could harm him. Just a year after his last cinema appearance, in the third part of the great slapstick comedy, the world flew laughed.

In 1995 Simpson was charged with double murder. And acquitted against all probabilities. He survived – like Nordberg in “The Naked Cam”. He only recovered from it. Of the judgment that the public had spoken about him.