O.J. Simpson’s death ‘no great loss,’ family of Ron Goldman says

The death of former football star and acquitted double-murder defendant O.J. Simpson was met with little sorrow in the celebrity world and within the family of Ron Goldman.

ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg started Thursday’s episode of “The View” by breaking news of the 76-year-old’s death Wednesday, which was announced by his family on social media the following morning.

ABC legal analyst and “The View” panelist Sunny Hostin credited Simpson’s 1995 “Trial of the Century” for shaping her career path.

“I remember feeling a great sense of injustice happened,” the 55-year-old pundit said. “It’s one of the reasons I became a prosecutor.”

Simpson was found not guilty for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Goldman, following a trial that played out on television over the course of 11 months. No one else was ever charged..

“For me the tragedy was the injustice… the fact that he was not found guilty,” Hostin said.

Her castmate Alyssa Farah Griffin hoped Simpson’s death brings a “gives some peace” to the families of Brown Simpson and Goldman, who Simpson was accused of butchering outside the former’s southern California home.

Goldman’s family won a $33.5 million wrongful death civil suit against Simpson in 1997. Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, told NBC News Simpson’s death was of little consequence.

“It’s no great loss to the world,” he said. “It’s a further reminder of Ron’s being gone.”

In 2021, Fred Goldman lamented to the Daily News that Simpson had survived his bout with COVID-19: ” I think about his death all the time. I can think of no one better suited to be underground.”

An attorney representing the Goldmans told ESPN Thursday that Simpson “died without penance.”

Longtime television personality Geraldo Rivera had nothing nice to say about Simpson.

“Usually don’t speak ill of the dead, but O.J. Simpson doesn’t deserve that mercy,” he posted on X. “He was an enraged, obsessively jealous double-murderer who hid his rage behind a mask of affability.”

In his online rant, Rivera blamed Simpson for exploiting the nation’s racial differences, ending his post with the promise of “more later.”

Caitlyn Jenner — whose ex-wife Kris Jenner was previously married to Simpson defense lawyer Robert Kardashian — shed no tears for the former football star either.

“Good Riddance,” Jenner posted on social media.

Reports of Simpson battling cancer began in early February. Simpson posted video laughing off rumors he was in hospice care, then stopped posting online altogether a couple days later.