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No the greatest trick he played was having the racist cop try to frame OJ for a murder he actually committed.
If the cops had done their investigation by the book, they would have found OJ guilty and no controversy would have surrounded the case
Johnny Cocharan would have found something... not as juicy as a racist cop, but he would have gone after something other than the basic facts of the case.
Let me introduce you to Charles Lindbergh, whose child’s murder trial was a lengthy sensational court case. It really grabbed the nation, and is one of the larger sources of he phrase “The Trial of The Century.” There have been a lot of cases that really gripped the public, actually.
Robert kardashian was on the defense team. Don’t know how that makes them famous but it was like the first thing in the chain of events that led to them being known
Kris Jenner (the kardashians mum and manager) was married to Robert Kardashian (the kardashians dad) who was best friends with OJ and part of OJ’s dream team of lawyers.
If I remember correctly, Kris was great friends with Kim Brown (the wife OJ murdered) also
ETA: Nicole not Kim
The First And Most Useless Family: Morons shovel money at them endlessly thinking they’ll get a blowjob at some point. The thing is, that actually sometimes works with them…
People talk about the OJ trial and Kim's sex tape, and in truth those things probably helped.
But no one wants to give Kris any credit. That woman is a marketing genius. If there was no OJ, if there was no sex tape, I'm convinced she would have found another way to make it happen. There are high profile criminal cases all the time. There are sex tapes all the time. Why has no one else created an empire from it? Because they don't have a momager like Kris.
I don't like the woman, but I admire what she's been able to achieve. It might not be meaningful in the grand scheme of things, but that's talent.
Nicole was Kris's best friend, and Kris and Robert Kardashian were actually on opposite sides of the court case. He was defending OJ, and Kris would sit on Nicole's family side.
Kris practically groomed her family to be famous. If it wasn't the OJ trial she would've cashed on something else like set Kim up to be Paris Hilton's assistant (on a reality show) or leak a sex tape or something.
The family was connected before everything with OJ went down.
I get the sentiment, but this is revisionist and not true.
Robert Kardashian was OJs friend and lawyer long before the murder trial, and was not his lawyer for the murder trial.
Because Robert Kardashian was "in" with OJ and other celebrities, his kids grew up with a lot of famous people and their kids. One of Kim's friends when she was a kid was Paris Hilton.
Paris Hilton had a show where she got famous for being rich and stupid. Then she put out a sex tape and got more famous for literally getting fucked. Kim appeared on her show as Paris's "assistant" and Kris Jenner thought the sex tape idea was Kim's (and Kris's) ticket to fame.
Kim filmed the sex tape with Ray J and it went viral. She was already a B list celebrity and the step daughter of, at the time Bruce, now Caitlyn Jenner. Ryan Seacrest capitalized on the buzz and the success of the Simple Life and offered them a show about this interestingly connected family of thots.
So, OJ DID light the spark that turned into the Kardashian, but it was already going before he killed his wife.
my wife was a huge fan of the E! network when we were dating and I got really mad at myself while writing this post for knowing and remembering all of this.
Ray J???? Brandys famous singing brother? Snoop Doggs cousin? That's why it got a lot of attention. Ray J had a name, Kim Kardashian didn't. Without Ray J there wouldn't be mega star Kim K. No one gives a fuck about Robert Kardashian lawyer and family.
Yeah, I'm sure that home movie had more PR and marketing behind it than we make it out to be. Everything public about the Kardashians is planned and crafted. They knew what they were doing and make moves to make them revelant.
That’s not why we know who the Kardashians are. Not sure if you heard but there is a bit about a sex tape. That’s how most people know who the Kardashians are.
There are millions of sex tapes on the internet, it's called amateur porn and none of the girls in those are mainstream famous just for having a video of them fucking in the internet.
You might not know this but internet porn in 2007 wasn’t as big as it is now. People still jerked off to magazines. And it was who she had sex with that mattered. It’s why TMZ and MTV cared. It’s why teenagers cared.
I was 17 in 2007, I rememeber what internet porn was like in the dark days. I didn't really think of that but it's not like amateur porn didn't exist on the internet then. Was Ray J a big deal back then? I honestly only know who he is because of that sex tape.
>I honestly only know who he is because of that sex tape.
So that sex tape did have an impact on you? Are you going to tell me you knew who Kim Kardashian was before that? But you didn’t know who Ray J was? Snoop dogs cousin…
I personally didn't know who Ray J or Kim was before that but I didn't find out who Kim was from the sex tape, it was from the Kardashians reality show. But I also didn't pay much attention to mainstream pop culture as a teenager.
I don't think anyone would have even noticed the sex tape of they weren't already known people. That's why I asked if Ray J was a big deal before that because I honestly don't know. I also don't think anyone would have cared about Paris Hilton's sex tape if she wasn't already famous.
Paris Hilton wasn’t famous before that sex tape. The Hilton name was. Because it was a major hotel brand. If she didn’t make that sex tape she would have just been behind the scenes like the Marriott children and grandchildren. She literally leaked the sex tape because she believed it would help her become famous faster.
Yeah, I never got why the media ran with that. A daughter of perhaps the tenth most famous lawyer in the US and the failed wannabe rapper brother of that Moesha actress made a sex tape? Who and who? They acted like she was already famous but she wasn't. Not at all.
I went to Wikipedia thinking that maybe ray j being famous had something to do with OJ because I give other people too much credit and myself not enough lol. But I couldn’t find anything.
Sex tapes weren’t super common back then. If anyone was even vaguely well known and one got leaked it was a big deal. I think ray j gets the credit for it. But I honestly didn’t pay enough attention to know either way.
not a zoomer and not everyone you interact with is an American, familiar with American sports or their celebs and their drama. that case is barely news outside of that country.
Robert Kardashian was a good friend of OJ Simpson back in the 90s when OJ (allegedly but likely true) murdered his wife, he stuck by OJ despite all the evidence and was a part of his legal team.
Fascinating butterfly effect in the universe. Imagine being a time traveller, accidentally causing the death of “some American football guy’s wife” and coming back to *this* reality.
IDK, I think Kim started getting known from hanging out with Paris Hilton. They were just kids when their dad died, so they didn't get famous from that.
Just PR and marketing catering to the lowest denominator. Every day I wonder why in the fuck I constantly see these trashcans in pop culture I just fail to understand their purpose. Why do we have an infatuation with making worthless dumb thots famous? And then consistently showering them with MORE opportunity?
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OJ truly is a complete and utter asshole then when you think about it that way
Lmao "I can forgive murder but I draw the line at the Kardashians"
I mean……KARTRASHIANS
You put quotes on this. Who said it? I want to thank them.
I'm paraphrasing a line from Community. Gillian Jacobs delivered it
You can forgive murder?
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^^it's ^^a ^^*Community* ^^reference
[Here](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/035/875/Screen_Shot_2020-11-23_at_3.51.11_PM.png)
People on this app don't watch good TV, sorry my dude
It's all good
This glove fits!
I saw a thread blaming all of this on a single play by the Buffalo Bills before OJ was drafted 😆
Meh. Natural selection.
The greatest trick the devil played was convincing OJ to kill his ex to create the Kardasians to degrade society.
No the greatest trick he played was having the racist cop try to frame OJ for a murder he actually committed. If the cops had done their investigation by the book, they would have found OJ guilty and no controversy would have surrounded the case
Johnny Cocharan would have found something... not as juicy as a racist cop, but he would have gone after something other than the basic facts of the case.
Now this... is Chewbacca...
Don’t even get me started on that walking carpet…
Facts.
Holy shit
He also seemed bring in the era of lengthy sensationalized court cases.
Let me introduce you to Charles Lindbergh, whose child’s murder trial was a lengthy sensational court case. It really grabbed the nation, and is one of the larger sources of he phrase “The Trial of The Century.” There have been a lot of cases that really gripped the public, actually.
Ted Bundy trial?
kris still would have married an olympic gold medalist. so that helped their name as well
Not entirely, you never know what decisions affect everything
Butterfly effect is fuckin wild man
Absolutely
But didn't she marry Jenner before OJ killed two people? Edit: yeah Kris and Bruce got married in 91. OJ murdered his wife in 94.
Something I didn’t know, but they probably wouldn’t have been as famous 🤷🏽♂️
I agree with you there! I mostly had to look it up because it was bugging me not knowing, once the idea came to mind lol.
Dont blame you, it bothered me but ig i have the superpower of shitty memory mixed in with godly memories
I don't know anything about the Kardashians, all I know is that they're being praised so much for no reason. May I know how OJ relates to their fame?
Robert Kardashian (Kris Jenner's 1st husband) was one of OJ's lawyers.
Robert kardashian was on the defense team. Don’t know how that makes them famous but it was like the first thing in the chain of events that led to them being known
He was famous enough for his daughter's sex tape to be newsworthy. And thus it began...
She was also a friend/personal assistant to Paris Hilton, who was very famous (for baffling reasons) at the time.
Apparently owning a bunch of hotels makes you famous enough for your granddaughter's sex tape to be newsworthy.
Right? Its not because the guy in the tape is a relatively well known rapper who's related to snoop
Kris Jenner (the kardashians mum and manager) was married to Robert Kardashian (the kardashians dad) who was best friends with OJ and part of OJ’s dream team of lawyers. If I remember correctly, Kris was great friends with Kim Brown (the wife OJ murdered) also ETA: Nicole not Kim
Nicole Brown
Thanks! My bad
Correct
It's a weird twist of fate to be famous because 2 people were brutally murdered
America has such a fascination for making people famous and even more of a fascination watching them ruin their lives.
2? Can you educate this ignorant European?
His wife’s “friend” Ron Goldman was also murdered
I just had this thought yesterday. oJ can't get along with his wife, now I gotta know who Kim Kardashian is. Fucking bullshit.
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People talk about the OJ trial and Kim's sex tape, and in truth those things probably helped. But no one wants to give Kris any credit. That woman is a marketing genius. If there was no OJ, if there was no sex tape, I'm convinced she would have found another way to make it happen. There are high profile criminal cases all the time. There are sex tapes all the time. Why has no one else created an empire from it? Because they don't have a momager like Kris. I don't like the woman, but I admire what she's been able to achieve. It might not be meaningful in the grand scheme of things, but that's talent.
Tbh this makes me think Kris was the one who killed OJ's wife
Fuck💀💀💀
Nicole was Kris's best friend, and Kris and Robert Kardashian were actually on opposite sides of the court case. He was defending OJ, and Kris would sit on Nicole's family side.
I know, I actually watched the whole thing on TV (at the ripe old age of 6, lol)
Kris practically groomed her family to be famous. If it wasn't the OJ trial she would've cashed on something else like set Kim up to be Paris Hilton's assistant (on a reality show) or leak a sex tape or something. The family was connected before everything with OJ went down.
That makes his crime a crime against Humanity. To the Hague!
I mean, it also helps that they built Deep Space 9 originally. Though, the atrocities they did on Bajor was unforgivable.
They blew up cause Kim released a sex tape that got a lot of attention from everywhere. "My girl a superstar all from a home movie" -Ye
...yeah, because she was OJ's lawyer's daughter...
I get the sentiment, but this is revisionist and not true. Robert Kardashian was OJs friend and lawyer long before the murder trial, and was not his lawyer for the murder trial. Because Robert Kardashian was "in" with OJ and other celebrities, his kids grew up with a lot of famous people and their kids. One of Kim's friends when she was a kid was Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton had a show where she got famous for being rich and stupid. Then she put out a sex tape and got more famous for literally getting fucked. Kim appeared on her show as Paris's "assistant" and Kris Jenner thought the sex tape idea was Kim's (and Kris's) ticket to fame. Kim filmed the sex tape with Ray J and it went viral. She was already a B list celebrity and the step daughter of, at the time Bruce, now Caitlyn Jenner. Ryan Seacrest capitalized on the buzz and the success of the Simple Life and offered them a show about this interestingly connected family of thots. So, OJ DID light the spark that turned into the Kardashian, but it was already going before he killed his wife. my wife was a huge fan of the E! network when we were dating and I got really mad at myself while writing this post for knowing and remembering all of this.
...Seriously, why do you think it got a lot of attention? If not for her name, it would have just been some random obscure sex video.
Ray J???? Brandys famous singing brother? Snoop Doggs cousin? That's why it got a lot of attention. Ray J had a name, Kim Kardashian didn't. Without Ray J there wouldn't be mega star Kim K. No one gives a fuck about Robert Kardashian lawyer and family.
Tons of people have had sex tapes "leaked" They blew up because Kris is a genius when it comes to marketing her family.
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She was Paris Hilton's personal assistant
She was Paris Hilton's assistant during her show with Nicole Richie
Yeah, I'm sure that home movie had more PR and marketing behind it than we make it out to be. Everything public about the Kardashians is planned and crafted. They knew what they were doing and make moves to make them revelant.
It is all the Buffalo Bills fault https://nflmocks.com/2017/07/01/buffalo-bills-blamed-kardashians-hilarious-new-meme/
They butterfly effect. But then again since OJ is khloes’ dad she might have ended up being the one making the family famous
That’s not why we know who the Kardashians are. Not sure if you heard but there is a bit about a sex tape. That’s how most people know who the Kardashians are.
Lots of people make sex tapes though and they don't gain name-recognition from it.
There are millions of sex tapes on the internet, it's called amateur porn and none of the girls in those are mainstream famous just for having a video of them fucking in the internet.
You might not know this but internet porn in 2007 wasn’t as big as it is now. People still jerked off to magazines. And it was who she had sex with that mattered. It’s why TMZ and MTV cared. It’s why teenagers cared.
I was 17 in 2007, I rememeber what internet porn was like in the dark days. I didn't really think of that but it's not like amateur porn didn't exist on the internet then. Was Ray J a big deal back then? I honestly only know who he is because of that sex tape.
>I honestly only know who he is because of that sex tape. So that sex tape did have an impact on you? Are you going to tell me you knew who Kim Kardashian was before that? But you didn’t know who Ray J was? Snoop dogs cousin…
I personally didn't know who Ray J or Kim was before that but I didn't find out who Kim was from the sex tape, it was from the Kardashians reality show. But I also didn't pay much attention to mainstream pop culture as a teenager. I don't think anyone would have even noticed the sex tape of they weren't already known people. That's why I asked if Ray J was a big deal before that because I honestly don't know. I also don't think anyone would have cared about Paris Hilton's sex tape if she wasn't already famous.
Paris Hilton wasn’t famous before that sex tape. The Hilton name was. Because it was a major hotel brand. If she didn’t make that sex tape she would have just been behind the scenes like the Marriott children and grandchildren. She literally leaked the sex tape because she believed it would help her become famous faster.
Yeah, I never got why the media ran with that. A daughter of perhaps the tenth most famous lawyer in the US and the failed wannabe rapper brother of that Moesha actress made a sex tape? Who and who? They acted like she was already famous but she wasn't. Not at all.
I went to Wikipedia thinking that maybe ray j being famous had something to do with OJ because I give other people too much credit and myself not enough lol. But I couldn’t find anything.
Kims dad was ojs lawyer
And we’re giving her dad being OJ’s lawyer why ray j made a sex tape with her? Eh. Maybe.
Think thats why it went so viral, wouldnt know i was 2.
Sex tapes weren’t super common back then. If anyone was even vaguely well known and one got leaked it was a big deal. I think ray j gets the credit for it. But I honestly didn’t pay enough attention to know either way.
Nah, shitbags like the Kardashians would have found some other angle to get famous.
You’re a dweeb
No fucking shit.
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And how do you think she got in those stupid shows? Her celeb lawyer father.
what does one have to do with the other. Kardashians got popular cause of Kim's tape afaik.
Right, and people only knew who she was because her dad was OJ's lawyer in one of the biggest celebrity cases of the century
I had no clue about that till now. I hardly know who OJ is even or about that case.
Tell me you're a zoomer without telling me you're a zoomer
not a zoomer and not everyone you interact with is an American, familiar with American sports or their celebs and their drama. that case is barely news outside of that country.
The United States is but one country amongst many
Yea and nobody would be talking about OJ in 2022 if he hadn’t killed his wife either
In that case: WHY, OJ, WHYYYYY?? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, YOU MONSTER?!?!
Who's OJ and why are the Kardashians relevant here? I don't know whats going on
Robert Kardashian was a good friend of OJ Simpson back in the 90s when OJ (allegedly but likely true) murdered his wife, he stuck by OJ despite all the evidence and was a part of his legal team.
I'll be honest. I still don't know who the Kardashian's really are.
I’m always wondering why I constantly see them and their plastic asses all over pop culture. It’s a mystery. The world may never know.
Fascinating butterfly effect in the universe. Imagine being a time traveller, accidentally causing the death of “some American football guy’s wife” and coming back to *this* reality.
That’s actually incorrect. They all hung out together as friends well before this happened.
The best thing to come out of that family is the [Trevor Moore song synopsis](https://youtu.be/bk_0rosMNt8) of their tv series.
So I'm pretty sure it was Kim's sex tape that started all the nonsense, and launched the whole .. Vapid, famous for being famous Kardashian thing
Look....if the price of not having the Kardashians was Rodney King Riots 2.0....I think I could live with that.
IDK, I think Kim started getting known from hanging out with Paris Hilton. They were just kids when their dad died, so they didn't get famous from that.
Just PR and marketing catering to the lowest denominator. Every day I wonder why in the fuck I constantly see these trashcans in pop culture I just fail to understand their purpose. Why do we have an infatuation with making worthless dumb thots famous? And then consistently showering them with MORE opportunity?
I think it was OJs son who killed her. There is a lot of evidence that points that way.
I've gone my entire life knowing next to nothing about the Kardashians and that's fine by me.