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Hometown hero
OJ
Simpson rose from the streets of Potrero Hill to international super
stardom as the Hiesman Trophy winning running back from USC who went on
to break several records in the NFL. The Galileo High School graduate who
was honored with a mural at the Potrero Hill Recreation Center later became
a Frankenstein celebrity after his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was brutally
murdered in June of 1994 along with waiter Ron Goldman. Simpson was acquitted
of the murders in the sensational "Trial of the Century" but was held responsible
for the deaths by a $30 million jury award at a subsequent trial in civil
court. Simpson has since been dishonored by the Potrero mural which was
defaced to express antipathy against Simpson in his old neighborhood.
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