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Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10% stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3] Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[ Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3] The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments. Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after Nigg's death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that Nigg's was as well; Nigg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] Nigg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6] |
| The FBI searched all of OJ’s & Nicole's credit card records & found no receipt belonging to either of them that showed a purchase of Bruno Magli shoes. Every store that sold the shoes in the country was searched, & they couldn't find anyone who sold him the shoes. The National Enquirer photos that came out in the civil trial show OJ wearing suede shoes on a rainy day & don’t match the weather conditions of the football game. Furthermore, it was also found that the shoe soles said to be OJ's footprint were more popular than the prosecution maintained, the manufacturer sold the pattern to numerous shoe lines. |
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According to transcripts of interviews conducted by investigators from the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Coleman and another deputy district attorney said they were told by Detective Mark Arneson of the LAPD’s 77th Division that he had talked with two officers to whom Fuhrman had confided that he had had an intimate relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and to whom he described her breast augmentation.
In the meantime, according to the transcripts of other Internal Affairs interviews, Burke told investigators she was told by Detective Daryl Maxwell of the Rampart Division that an officer he knew had overheard Fuhrman bragging that he had slept with Nicole Brown Simpson and that Fuhrman had described her “boob job.” (Arneson and Maxwell later denied to investigators that such conversations had occurred.) According to an Internal Affairs transcript, Coleman subsequently told LAPD investigators: “Quite honestly, I agonized for about a week or two what I should do with the evidence because obviously if it was true, I felt ethically it had to be turned over to the defense.” Coleman, sources say, decided that because she was a friend of Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and respected William Hodgman, the other assistant district attorney on the case, she would go to them and report what she and her colleagues had heard. Early in August 1994, Coleman met with the prosecutors in Clark’s office and, according to the declaration, “told them what I had heard” about the locker and Nazi paraphernalia. |
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There has been speculation that perhaps some kind of small scale drugs ring may have been operating out of the Mezzaluna, and its participants may have gotten in over their heads with the bigger operators in the LA drugs underworld. As fanciful as it may seem, there is some evidence to support it.
Because most people are so adamant that OJ Simpson is guilty, it is inevitable that Ron Goldman often gets overlooked as a possible target of the attacks in his own right. But as author TH Johnson discovered, local residents had reported to a nearby tennis club that Goldman had been selling drugs in the area, could he have encroached on the territory of some bigger players? It is rarely reported that at the time of his death Ron Goldman had an extensive criminal file, including outstanding arrest warrants. Johnson tried to obtain this file during the course of his research but discovered it had been classified under a Californian law designed to protect confidential informants. Who or what had Goldman been informing on? |
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Hey Raging Heart dude, of course, Nicole was acting out, she was married to a narcissistic abuser who made her life a living hell and then ultimately killed her.
Who wouldn’t act out under the circumstances? See how put together you’d be in her shoes, much younger, much poorer, family ready to pump her out, no place to run, constant gaslighting and self-doubt. Most people would probably turn to drugs, too. I wish I believed in hell. That is where that scumbag, wife beater belongs. |
Yup. Lived nearly thirty years longer and spent all that time hunting for the “real” killer. He should have posted to DCUM and enlisted all these great researchers to help him. |
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One possibility is Goldman’s convoluted family background. His father Fred Goldman had married a woman named Patti Glass, the ex-wife of a Mafia lawyer and drugs dealer named Marvin Glass.
Goldman had married Patti Glass shortly after Marvin was jailed for his part in a huge drugs money laundering operation, and took custody of three of Glass’ children. According to one of the sons who became part of this makeshift new Goldman family, Fred was cruel and abusive to them. Was Ron feeding the authorities information about Marvin Glass? Or was Glass, released and in LA on the night of the murders, directly involved in them? According to Glass’ son Brian, his father had developed a deep resentment to Fred Goldman about the perceived mistreatment of his sons whilst he was in prison. Glass was by the court’s own account a psychotic individual, who by 1994 was dying of AIDS obtained during a blood transfusion. Did he arrange to wreak the ultimate revenge by depriving Fred of his own son Ron? Simpson himself now apparently promotes the drug theory, at least according to Jeffrey Felix, a prison guard who says he befriended Simpson following his incarceration for armed robbery in 2007. Felix says OJ told him drug dealers had murdered Nicole and Ron over unpaid debts. If there was anything to this, it is not surprising it was never pursued. The murky nexus of Hollywood, drugs and organised crime has always been Los Angeles’ darkest secret. The tentacles of illegal narcotics dealing spread deep into every aspect of power in the city and as would be uncovered in the years after the trial this very much included the LAPD. The Ramparts scandal that blew in the late 90s led to the biggest corruption investigation in American law enforcement history. By the end of it dozens of LAPD officers were implicated in various cases of misconduct, many of them involving the theft and dealing of narcotics. Valid leads that pointed to drugs as a motive for the crime may well have been overlooked by all concerned, precisely because it risked airing too much dirty laundry, whether relevant to the case and not. |
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If you think this web of everyone in this story isnt crazy enough, there is also the case of Jason Simpson, OJ’s son from his first marriage, a chef who was known to always keep knives on him.
Dear has devoted much of his career to the idea that Simpson's son, Jason Simpson, is actually the killer. When asked about the most compelling evidence he has, Dear told us, "Well I have Jason's diaries where he says, 'I cut away my problems with a knife.'" William Dear revealed that he has possession of what he believes to be the knife used to kill Nicole and Goldman. "Two of the top experts in the country who deal with knife wounds, feel it was the murder weapon," said Dear. He then referenced an incident from December 1992 when Jason was arrested after attacking his then-employer with a knife. According to UPI, court documents showed that Jason assaulted restaurant owner Paul Goldberg. Not only did Jason threaten him with a knife, but he hit him using his hands and feet. Jason was then charged with "three felony counts of assault and battery but pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace." He received two years probation and 10 days of community service. A friend of Dear's bought a storage unit that Jason was previously renting but owed money on. Inside it was several boxes of his things which included but weren't limited to the aforementioned diaries and knife as well as pictures of Jason wearing a knit cap similar to one authorities found at the crime scene. In these pictures, Jason is next to his dog. The knit cap at the crime scene had traces of human and canine hair, but it was never tested for DNA. Dear says the police have no interest in testing the cap now. Dear's other evidence can be found in his self-published book, O.J. Is Guilty, but Not of Murder, released in November 2000. The book touches on Jason's previous diagnosis of intermittent rage disorder, for which he was prescribed Depakote. Jason had also allegedly physically assaulted two ex-girlfriends. "He [Jason] grabbed me and pinned me down on the bathroom floor. Then he grabbed for my braids. He started whacking off my hair with his chef's knife," says one woman in the book. OJ enlisted his son in boarding school and the army or Marines at one point. He was angry at Nicole for stealing his father from his mother and had childhood trauma and guilt from the death of his 1 year old sister Aaren who drowned while Jason was watching her |
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Jason stopped taking his meds months before the incident .
All of these potential suspects and damning stories were ignored by the LAPD . |
Drugs or no drugs, she was a piece of work when alive. Her own friends and family told all those bad stories in the book. The books premise was showing her scandalous side as if to say that’s why Oj was incensed enough to kill her. It just is odd that OJ isn’t the one saying these bad things about her . It’s her so called friends |
Let’s assume that Ron was feeding the authorities information about Marvin Glass. Why would mafia hit men have killed him at Nicole’s house? That’s not how hit men work. I get it, they were trying to frame OJ for the murders, not to get a message across. Makes total sense. The only thing convoluted are your crazy, irrational logic and thought processes. Critical thinking is not your strong suit. |
| OJ can rest in peace knowing his wife's murderer is dead. |
Let’s assume OJ was innocent (in your dreams), he beat the sh-t out of Nicole on multiple occasions. It’s documented. Who cares what he did or didn’t say about her? He abused her in every way possible. The only piece of work is you, libeling an abused wife who has been dead for 30 years. You’re a disgusting piece of work. |
Did she go to the hospital? He never beat the shit out of her. Nicole’s own parents told Marcia Clark she lied and exaggerated DV claims to try and get more spousal support. In the 1993 call, Nicole says OJ hadn’t hit her in 4 years since 1989 and it only happened one time. OJ also added to the settlement a clause that if he ever put his hand on Nicole again, he would pay her 5 million dollars. A stupid idea. That’s probably why she kept stalking his girlfriends and called 911 in 1993. |
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Two different people, John Meraz and William Blasini, encountered the Bronco at the lot where it had been impounded days after the murders. They both looked inside it for blood and saw none. There was also only 1/8th of one drop of blood ever found in it.
- New York Times best selling author and journalist Stephen Singular was connected by an anonymous source within the LAPD about the case a few weeks after the murders. He was told Mark Fuhrman made an undocumented trip to Rockingham in the early morning hours after the murders looking for evidence that would incriminate OJ. Rosa Lopez, a housekeeper for OJ’s next door neighbor, testified to hearing men’s voices coming from the yard of Rockingham after midnight . OJ was already on the airplane en route to Chicago at that time |