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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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