Oj simpson dad was gay
O.J. Simpson hid a deep secret about his father that may help elucidate 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 partnership with his father.
In part one of the docuseries (airing on ESPN now and available on the Watch ESPN app), we understand 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 realize if he could get anyone in the film to talk about. But surprisingly, the topic came up adv 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
OJ Simpson's father was gay and Nicole Brown came house with ripped jeans after 'forceful' first date reveals explosive new documentary OJ: Made In America
The life of OJ Simpson, from his days growing up in the San Francisco projects and football glory years to the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and current incarceration, is explored in depth in the unusual new documentary OJ: Made In America, which premiered at 9pm tonight on ABC.
The five part series kicks off with a peek at Simpson's initial life and football career, first at the University of Southern California and then later with the Buffalo Bills.
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT
And thanks to interviews with people who were closest to him at the hour, new details arise about the human who has been famous for half a century, including the fact that his father Jimmy Lee Simpson was gay.
The premiere episode explores the preliminary days of his affair with Nicole as well, with her roommate recounting his concerns about their relationship after their first date.
The documentary team even managed to somehow get the autographed photograph of himself that Simpson gave Nicole around this time, on which he wrote: 'Dear Nicole, I Long
OJ Simpson's father was a drag queen known as Mama
From SFist: "OJ Simpson's father, who came out as gay 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 drag 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 new husband to act like her father if he answered the phone and then went undercover for a month, posing as a learner
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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 homosexual and was largely absent from the family once Simpson turned four years old, would turn into a local drag queen established as “Mama Simpson.”
There is admittedly little information about the being 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 bloke. “His father was an intermittent presence in [OJ