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EXCLUSIVE: Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher) is the latest addition to Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic that Antoine Fuqua is directing for Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International, sources tell Deadline.

Daily Mail reported in 2015 that while serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, he was forced to use a cane to move about.Simpson was granted parole and released in 2017.During the bombshell 1994 case involving the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, the former athlete’s attorney Johnnie Cochran claimed that Simpson couldn’t have committed the murders due to the injuries he endured during his football career. The star had gone through two surgeries on his left knee in the late 1970s.Cochran, who died in March 2005 at the age of 67, asked Simpson to show the jury the multiple surgery scars on his leg. Simpson was later acquitted of all charges in the case, which was dubbed the Trial of the Century by the media.In later years, the former convict has sporadically popped up at public events.

The "trial of the century" came to a close on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1995, with the acquittal of Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson for two counts of murder. Simpson's acquittal came nine months after the trial began — and about 16 months after Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, were found brutally murdered outside her home in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Tony-Award winner Courtney B. Vance has joined the cast of Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch in the role of Cobra Bubbles, Deadline has learned.

ABC has assembled the lead cast opposite Anthony Anderson of ABC’s single camera comedy pilot Public Defenders. Erika Henningsen, Arturo Castro, Kimrie Lewis, Natasha Lopez and Isaiah Dòdó-Williams have been set as series regulars in the pilot, written by Eddie Quintana and to be directed by Randall Einhorn.

viral Oscars 2022 moment — when Will Smith casually strolled up on stage and smacked the “Everybody Hates Chris” creator for making a bald joke about Jada Pinkett Smith — way, way back at the 2000 MTV VMAs.Shawn’s brother, Marlon Wayans, resurfaced a prescient clip of Shawn, 51, impersonating a trash-talking Rock at the millennium music awards show. The two-and-a-half-minute clip above features an ending that is eerily similar to Sunday’s violent Oscar night debacle.“Maaaaan, not to ‘kick’ a brother when he’s down… BUT we predicted this s–t exactly,” Marlon 49, posted on social media alongside a clip of his bro cracking up the crowd.The “Scary Movie” star continued, “When art imitates life then LIFE actually happens.

Doggy Style, on which the most popular single was the song “Murder was the Case.” The publicity of the case boosted sales to over 5 million albums, but the violent nature of “Murder was the Case” would go on to hurt Snoop’s case in his trial. Represented by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, who repped OJ Simpson just theyear before, Snoop and his defense claimed that his bodyguard was the shooter and acted in self-defense.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCourtney B. Vance has a gift for tapping into rich and complex, larger-than-life men.

No topic was off limits for David Letterman, 73, in a new interview with Kim Kardashian, 39 — including OJ Simpson‘s murder trial that had her parents Kris Jenner, 64, and the late Robert Kardashian Sr. taking sides. Robert, of course, is best known for his role on OJ’s legal defense team alongside lawyer Johnnie Cochran, while Kris was a close friend of the late Nicole Brown Simpson.

“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”