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O.J. Simpson hid a deep secret about his father that may help interpret his domestic abuse
One of the big themes in the ESPN documentary "O.J.: Made In America" is the awful abuse O.J. Simpson subjected his wife Nicole Brown Simpson to prior to her murder — both physical and otherwise.
It's feasible that violence may have stemmed, at least in part, from Simpson's affair with his father.
In part one of the docuseries (airing on ESPN now and available on the Watch ESPN app), we study through a childhood friend of O.J. Simpson's that the former football star's father was gay.
It was something the "Made in America" director, Ezra Edelman, didn't even understand if he could get anyone in the film to talk about. But surprisingly, the topic came up posthaste through the friend.
"Calvin [Tennyson] was my first interview for the movie, it was back in October of 2014," Edelman told Business Insider recently. "I didn't know that he knew [O.J.'s father was gay], it wasn't something O.J. talked about. But he brought it up and told a story about [O.J.'s] father very organically."
The story is a recollection Tennyson had of seeing Simpson's father in his apar
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As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a established San Francisco drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
Many of today’s obituaries for OJ Simpson note the football star-turned-murder suspect’s San Francisco roots. Simpson was born in SF, raised in Potrero Hill, attended Galileo High School, and played one year of college football at SF City College before transferring to USC.
But there’s another curious detail about Simpson's SF youth. His father, who came out as lgbtq+ and was largely absent from the family once Simpson turned four years old, would change into a local drag queen famous as “Mama Simpson.”
There is admittedly little information about the experience of OJ's father, Jimmy Lee Simpson, who died of HIV/AIDS in 1986. But the scant accounts there are have consistency across them.
We see reference in the 2015 book The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin (yes, that Jeffrey Toobin) that Jimmy Lee Simpson was a gay male. “His father was an intermittent presence in [OJ
OJ Simpson's father was a drag queen known as Mama
From SFist: "OJ Simpson's father, who came out as homosexual and was largely absent from the family once Simpson turned four years old, became a local drag queen established as Mama Simpson. A documentary on OJ interviewed one of his childhood friends, Calvin Tennyson, who recalled a visit he and OJ made to Jimmy Lee Simpson’s apartment. “When his dad opened the door, he was in a bathrobe, which is not a crime. But then his dad kind of opened the door more, and there was a guy in the back in a bathrobe too. So it was obvious that his dad was gay.” A book about OJ quoted a source as saying Mama Simpson frequently dressed in queenly and "everyone knew he was O.J.’s dad."
What happened when a journalist went undercover as a high school student
From The Chronicle: "San Francisco Chronicle reporter Shann Nix probably should have been on her honeymoon in September 1992 when she took on an assignment she would still be thinking about decades later. Nix, then 26, changed her home answering machine, instructed her novel husband to behave like her father if he answered the phone and then went undercover for a month, posing as a student
Karrueche Tran Opens Up About Growing Up With A Gay Father
Karrueche Tran has been circulating in the news lately for being the first lead actress of the AAPI community to prevail an Emmy. Her Emmy was for Outstanding Show by a Lead Actress in a Daytime Fiction Program in Popstar! TV's The Bay. Because of this, her stock is going up and she has crossed over into the land of creature taken seriouslyas an actress, regardless of how she may have arrived on the scene. And with more accolades, comes more personal life details coming to the surface, details that we may possess all missed in the past.
In fact, one major life detail that Karrueche has revealed is that her father is gay.
Her father, who is Jamaican-American, is one of her biggest supporters, as she is of his. The admission took place during promo for her popular TNT series, Claws. While discussing her life apart from organism Chris Brown's ex-girlfriend with MadameNoire, she revealed:
"I don't think I've ever told anyone this, but my father is gay. I don't think I've ever told anyone this because I don't