Alan Dershowitz, O.J. Simpson's Dream Team lawyer, claims that while prosecutors got the NFL legend off the hook for murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, the jock nevertheless self-destructed owing to his massive ego.
“We didn’t win the case. They lost it. They made every mistake in the book. It’s the classic case of losing an unlosable case,” Alan told The National Enquirer. However, O.J. Simpson, who died on April 10 from prostate cancer, didn’t take full advantage of the reprieve.
Alan, 85, claims he provided the fallen football star the identical advice he had given his former client. Claus von Bülow was sensationally acquitted of attempting to murder his bedridden wife, Sunny, ten years before O.J. Simpson's Trial of the Century in 1995.
“I told O.J. to just disappear and keep a low profile. NOBODY wants to hear from you. I gave the same advice to Claus, and he accepted it. He lived a quiet life after his trial and didn’t do interviews. But O.J., from the very night of his acquittal, went on Larry King, threw a ridiculous victory party, and then later wrote that stupid book, If I Did It! Almost everything he did after the case was rash and unthoughtful, and he ended up going to jail anyway,” Alan recalled.
Most, if not all, fans are aware that O.J. Simpson served nine years in prison after being convicted in 2008 of armed robbery and kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas.
“I think O.J. was very focused on his fame. He had lived the good life and he didn’t want that to change. He didn’t realize nothing would ever be the same after the trial,” Alan stated.
Alan, a former Harvard Law School professor who has represented a slew of high-profile clients, including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, and Harvey Weinstein, is still stunned when prosecutor Christopher Darden questioned O.J. To put on the bloody gloves discovered at the crime site.
The gloves were far too tiny, prompting O.J. to exclaim that they don’t fit. Alan said that was one of the biggest legal blunders in history. The lawyer shared that, despite having little touch with his former client after the trial, the news of O.J. Simpson's death shocked him.
“I heard from friends he was in hospice, so I was aware he was dying. We weren’t really friends, but I am saddened by his death,” Alan said.
For those unaware, O.J. Simpson, a famous Hall of Fame football player and acquitted murderer, died of metastatic prostate cancer, his longtime lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, told PEOPLE on April 26.
His family revealed his death on X on April 11, one day after it occurred. O.J. Simpson had been battling cancer since May 2023, when he announced his diagnosis.
"I was pretty certain it was prostate cancer; ultimately, that was the cause. He thought it had beaten it. I thought this was done, but you know how cancers go. They come back, and they come back with a vengeance,” Malcolm stated.
O.J. Simpson won the Heisman Trophy and became the first NFL player to dash for over 2,000 yards in a single season in 1973.
