Robert Kardashian
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Robert Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was a defense lawyer in the trial of O.J. Simpson. Following the murder of his wife, Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings returned from Chicago and were met at the airport by Robert Kardashian who handled Simpson's luggage, some of which was never seen again[citation needed]. In the days following the murder, O.J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house.
When O.J. Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, Kardashian, a friend of Simpson, then read a letter by Simpson to the collected media. In the letter Simpson said, "First everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder.... Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life." To many this sounded like a suicide note and the reporters then actively joined the search for Simpson.
Kardashian and O.J. first met while playing tennis, back in the early 1970s. They had been close friends ever since. When O.J. was charged with murder, it had been 20 years since Kardashian was last in a courtroom. Kardashian's was a graduate of USC law school and his license to practice law had expired three years before. He reactivated his license to aid in O.J.'s defense, as a volunteer on his legal team. He sat by O.J. throughout the trial.
Cocaine dealer William Wasz claimed that he sold cocaine to Kardashian, O.J. Simpson and Nicole Simpson, but that Kardashian gave the drugs to clients and didn't use the drugs himself. Wasz also said that Kardashian and O.J. were involved in money laundering, prostitution, pornography, sports betting, and point shaving. In January 1994, Kardashian hired Wasz to follow Nicole and take pictures of other men she might be with, to prove her unfaithfulness to O.J., said Wasz.
Some time after the trial, Kardashian expressed doubts about O.J. Simpson's innocence in a way that led to a California bar investigation.[1] Although this strained his relationship with O.J. Simpson at the time, by the time of his death they had "put it aside" and after his death, Simpson said "Bob was there when I needed him most."[2]
Kardashian died of esophageal cancer on September 30, 2003.
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- ^ Court TV News, Robert Schmidt, October 21, 1996, http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/simpson/reports/kardashian.html
- ^ CNN Obituary of Kardishian, Wednesday, October 1, 2003 Former O.J. Simpson lawyer, Kardashian, dies http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/10/01/OJattorney.dead/
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