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OJ Simpson’s Dad Reportedly Had History As Gay Drag Queen
The father of infamous NFL player OJ Simpson, who died on Wednesday April 10th, was reportedly a gay flamboyant queen active in San Francisco’s 70s drag community.
Though Simpson is seen as one of the NFL’s greatest running backs of all time, he is most widely established for the trial where he was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
Controversially, Simpson was acquitted of the charges, but was initiate liable for the murders three years later in a civil suit. Later, he was convicted for armed robbery in 2008 and released on parole in 2017.
Jimmy Lee Simpson’s drag history
OJ Simpson’s surprise death has provoked a look back at the life of the disgraced running back, as good as those around him – including father Jimmy Lee Simpson.
Two books from the 90s, George Carpozi Jr’s The Lies of OJ Simpson and Jeffery Toobin’s The Jog of His Life, both included accounts that Jimmy Lee Simpson was male lover and a performative queen in San Francisco after separating from OJ’s mother, Eunice.
The account in Carpozi Jr’s book states that: “Mama Simpson, as he was famous to me, used to hang around the
Karrueche Tran Opens Up About Growing Up With A Queer Father
Karrueche Tran has been circulating in the news lately for being the first guide actress of the AAPI group to win an Emmy. Her Emmy was for Outstanding Show by a Lead Actress in a Daytime Fiction Program in Popstar! TV's The Bay. Because of this, her stock is going up and she has crossed over into the ground of being taken seriouslyas an actress, regardless of how she may have arrived on the scene. And with more accolades, comes more personal life details coming to the surface, details that we may have all missed in the past.
In fact, one major life detail that Karrueche has revealed is that her father is male lover.
Her father, who is Jamaican-American, is one of her biggest supporters, as she is of his. The admission took place during promo for her trendy TNT series, Claws. While discussing her life apart from creature Chris Brown's ex-girlfriend with MadameNoire, she revealed:
"I don't think I've ever told anyone this, but my father is gay. I don't think I've ever told anyone this because I don't
OJ Simpson's father was a drag queen known as Mama
From SFist: "OJ Simpson's father, who came out as same-sex attracted and was largely absent from the family once Simpson turned four years old, became a local drag queen famous 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 flamboyant 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 recent husband to behave like her father if he answered the phone and then went undercover for a month, posing as a student
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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 Metropolis College before transferring to USC.
But there’s another curious detail about Simpson's SF youth. His father, who came out as gay and was largely absent from the family once Simpson turned four years old, would grow a local drag queen known as “Mama Simpson.”
There is admittedly little facts about the life of OJ's father, Jimmy Lee Simpson, who died of HIV/AIDS in 1986. But the few accounts there are have consistency across them.
We see reference in the 2015 manual 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 man. “His father was an intermittent presence in [OJ