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As former President Donald Trump prepared to marry his second wife, Marla Maples, OJ Simpson had some strange advice and a jab for the real estate mogul back in 1993
Before the whirlwind of legal woes OJ Simpson faced, he was running in the same circles as many of America’s most high-profile people — including Donald Trump.
In fact, he once gave the former US president a spot of relationship advice that has become one of the most iconic facest of their complicated, decades-long relationship.
Amid Trump’s divorce from Ivana, his first wife whom he cheated on with Marla Maples, and Trump’s subsequent marriage to Maples in 1993, OJ offered some strange relationship advice to the real estate mogul.
"I think everybody in the country believes maybe their relationship can work if this relationship can work," OJ said at the time, according to The List, referencing the whirlwind of divorce proceedings involving Ivana and the turbulent romance between Trump and Maples. He specifically referenced to reporters the cheating that occurred that led to Ivana and Trump’s divorce.
The relationship between Trump and OJ has been a wild one over the years, dramatically shifting after OJ’s conviction in 1995. Trump proceeded to slam the former athlete in several interviews over the next few decades.
Despite OJ being acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in June 1994, Trump still held out that OJ was guilty of the crimes, stating a few years later in an interview about OJ’s bid to be on Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice.
In an interview with Howard Stern in the late 2000s, Trump said: "I don’t like people that kill their wives. Does that make sense? Does that make me a disloyal person?" The disloyalty comment comes amid other interactions the two had before even the wedding in 1993, when it is presumed that he and OJ mingled as they both socialised in high-profile circles in New York City for celebrities.
OJ’s guilt from the civil trial filed by Goldman’s family, which essentially found him financially liable for both deaths and forced him to pay as much as $33.5 million (£26.7million) — an amount he never ended up paying due to a string of excuses and a filing for bankruptcy.
At one point, however, Trump argued that OJ was innocent, but then hardened his stance on OJ’s guilt. At one point, he oddly argued that "fifty different people could have planted" the evidence that led to OJ’s charges, but then stated, according to Newsweek: "I don’t think the LAPD is that smart." He also added that the blood found in OJ’s Jeep wasn’t a significant amount, claiming that it would have been easy to plant it. These claims were made back in 1995.
Flash forward to 2023, and OJ began offering Trump advice again — this time, about the slew of legal troubles the former president finds himself embroiled in even now. He told Trump in a video in June 2023 that was posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, that Trump should avoid publicly discussing his cases, as he has been wont to do all over his social media since the indictments started rolling in.
The last time OJ mentioned Trump was in his post in February on X, which dispelled the rumors that he was in hospice care. He wrote: "I don’t know who put that out there. I guess it’s like The Donald says, you can’t trust the media."