Oj simpson father gay

In truth, one major being detail that Karrueche has revealed is that her father is gay.

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 famous TNT series, Claws. While discussing her life apart from being 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

O.J. Simpson hid a deep secret about his father that may help describe 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 achievable that violence may have stemmed, at least in part, from Simpson's association with his father.

In part one of the docuseries (airing on ESPN now and available on the Watch ESPN app), we acquire 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 recognize 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

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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 recognizable 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 Municipality 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 data 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 guide 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

OJ Simpson's father was a performative 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 known as Mama Simpson. A documentary on OJ interviewed one of his childhood friends, Calvin Tennyson, who recalled a see 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 courteous 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 love her father if he answered the phone and then went undercover for a month, posing as a student