LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (AP) — Robert Kardashian, a businessman and lawyer who was a major figure in the O. J. Simpson case, both as a friend of Mr. Simpson and as part of his legal team, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 59.
He died eight weeks after learning he had cancer of the esophagus, said his former wife, Kris Jenner, who is now married to the Olympic champion Bruce Jenner.
Mr. Simpson stayed at Mr. Kardashian's home in the days after Mr. Simpson's former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman were stabbed to death in 1994. An infamous televised police chase involving Mr. Simpson in a white Ford Bronco began after he fled Mr. Kardashian's home.
I knew Mr. Kardashian rather well; that happens when you spend more than a year with a small group of people inside a jammed, pressure-cooked courtroom. My thoughts on Mr. Kardashian, even now at the time of his passing, is best summed up here...
For those who might want to inquire, let me politely say that I choose not to discuss Kardashian or the Simpson murder case and trials any longer. Thank you.
