The booking photo of O.J. Simpson. Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal.
In his latest skirmish with the law, investigators questioned O.J. Simpson about a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia. The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late Thursday night. Here he is pictured during a 2004 interview.
The Heisman Trophy winner, ex-NFL star and actor was in Las Vegas to promote his controversial book, "If I Did It," which was released Thursday, the day before -- and 13 years, three months after the June, 12 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman. Here he is being questioned by the police the day after the murders.
This is the booking mug shot of O.J. Simpson taken by the Los Angeles Police Department the following Friday, June 17, 1994, after he surrendered to authorities.
The day before his booking, O.J. Simpson attended a private funeral for his ex-wife, with daughter Sydney, 8, and son Justin, 6.
Simpson's trial was closely-watched, analyzed and debated. One of its most memorable moments was when prosecutors asked him to put on a pair of gloves, which did not seem to fit. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," declared his defense attorney, Johnnie Cochran.
O.J. Simpson and his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, are shown in October 19, 1993. A jury acquitted Simpson of the murders October 3, 1995. In June of 2004, the 10-year anniversary of the slaying, Simpson complained that the media have convinced the public he is guilty of murdering his ex-wife, and he said he hopes the real killer is found so that he can have the pleasure of proving people wrong.
In 2005, O.J. Simpson attended the funeral of the attorney who had won his acquittal, Johnnie Cochran. Here he is leaving the funeral service.
O.J. Simpson's year-long murder trial was not the last time he was in a courtroom. Here he is arriving at the Santa Monica Courthouse during the wrongful death civil lawsuit against him filed by the families of the two murder victims. In February 1997, the jury found Simpson liable and awarded plaintiffs a total of $33 million.
In 2001, O.J. Simpson again appeared in court, this time in a Miami-Dade County Courtroom on trial for allegedly attacking a Miami motorist in December 2000. If he had been found guilty, Simpson faced up to 16 years in prison. A jury found him not guilty of battery and auto burglary in the so-called road rage trial.
Simpson hugged fan Lily Roberts as he left the Miami-Dade County Court after his 'road rage' trial.
Through the year, O.J. Simpson has maintained his celebrity status -- here he is signing an autograph for a member of the U.S. Military during the 133rd Kentucky Derby in May 2007. This was six months after the controversial book project and interview in which Simpson describes how he would have committed the murder of his wife and acquaintance if he were the one responsible for the crimes.
Earlier this week Fred and Kim Goldman, the father and sister of Ron Goldman, spoke with Oprah Winfrey about the controversial book that O.J. Simpson wrote and why the Goldman's decided to publish it. A Florida judge has awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family as partial payment for the civil judgment against Simpson.
The book was initially to be published by Harper Collins until that publisher withdrew after a public outcry. Beaufort Books. Now it has been published by Beaufort Books, with commentary added by the Goldman family, as well as writers Dominick Dunne and Pablo Fenjves.
Now 60 years old, Orenthal James Simpson has been in the spotlight since he was a college football star four decades ago, winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (given annually to the best college player in the U.S.) in 1968 as a senior at the University of Southern California. Here it sits in an auction house in 1999; along with other O.J. memorabilia, it was auctioned to help pay the civil judgment.
Simpson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a decade-long career as a running back on the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers. He was successful in subsequent careers as a sports commentator, a commercial spokesman (for Hertz rent-a-car, among others), the owner of food franchises, and a movie actor. Of some two dozen roles, his part in "The Klansman" (1974) is among his least known.
In the years since the slayings, Simpson has remained in the public eye. In 1996, he was invited to Oxford in Great Britain...
In 2002, he was the MC for a rap concert featuring Juvenile and Foxy Brown in Cincinnati, Ohio. Simpson said he wanted to bring peace to a racially divided city.
In 2005, he attended the Kentucky Derby, posing with singer Patti LaBelle.
That same year, he and an unidentified friend posed on the red carpet before the premiere of Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo at the Palms casino in Las Vegas - city of the latest incident.