O.J. Simpson, who ran to fame on the football field, made fortunes as an all-American in movies, television and advertising, and was acquitted of killing his former wife and her friend in a 1995 trial in Los Angeles that mesmerized the nation, died Wednesday …

In 2006, he sold a book manuscript, titled If I Did It, and a prospective TV interview, giving a hypothetical account of murders he had always denied committing. A public outcry ended both projects, …