Larry David eerily crossed paths with O.J. Simpson on the day Nicole Brown Simpson was brutally murdered in 1994.
David, the co-creator of “Seinfeld” and creator/star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” discussed the chilling moment in his newly released authorized biography, “Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David.” The book was written by Blake J. Harris.
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On the morning of June 12, 1994, David was eating breakfast at the exclusive Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles alongside his then-wife Laurie, newborn daughter Cazzie and fellow comedy writer Alan Zweibel. Zweibel’s wife, Robin, was also at the table.
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Zweibel said that he will never forget that breakfast with Larry, or the date, “because that night O.J. Simpson killed Nicole [Brown Simpson] and Ron Goldman.”
“[We] saw him in the dining room the day of the murder!” David said.
In the biography, Zweibel explained that he not only saw Simpson, but interacted with him twice that same day.
“We were having breakfast and all of a sudden I hear somebody say my name: ‘Zwa-bell.’ I turn around. It’s O.J. Simpson,” Zweibel said.
He went on to explain how he knew Simpson. “I knew O.J. because I went to the University of Buffalo while he was playing for the [Buffalo] Bills,” Zweibel began.
“He was like a god. And when he came to host ‘SNL’ [in 1978], I remember saying to Lorne, ‘This is my hero.’ So I spent a lot of time with O.J. that week. I wrote a lot for that show. And then in subsequent years, we had a mutual friend on Rockingham, and we all had kids around the same age, so we’d see each other at birthday parties and s— like that,” he continued.
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Zweibel said that he also saw Simpson later that afternoon at his daughter’s middle school dance recital.
“Our daughters were [both performing]. And on our way out, I again hear a familiar voice,” he said.
“S—,” O.J. said to Zweibel. “Twice in the same day!”
“Hey, Juice!” Zweibel replied.
Zweibel explained in the biography that he called Simpson by his famous nickname and told him that he had nothing new to share since he had already seen him earlier that day.
“Though, of course, [in retrospect] what I should have said was ‘Stay home tonight! Order in! Don’t go out!'” he said.
Simpson and Nicole married in 1985 and had two children, Sydney and Justin. They separated in 1992, and Brown filed for divorce after seven years of marriage.
In 1994, Brown and Goldman, her friend, were killed. Simpson was tried for their murders and acquitted in October 1995.
On Oct. 18, The New York Times reported that a mob-linked drug trafficker with ties to Simpson secretly became a jailhouse snitch and claimed to have information about efforts to dispose of evidence, potentially including a murder weapon that was never recovered.
The outlet said that Joseph Ippolito, a former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur who knew Simpson, had told federal prosecutors he had information on the murder weapon. One has never been recovered.
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Elsewhere in David’s biography, he discussed the famous decades before “Seinfeld” when he was a NYC comedian. David was infamous among NYC comedians for walking offstage mid-set, refusing to perform if someone looked at their watch, yelling at paying crowds and needing bouncers to protect him from a “mountain” of a heckler he almost fought.
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“I didn’t react well to adversity, so I would just walk off,” David said. “I was young. I had a bad temper. And my stuff wasn’t very commercial. I couldn’t really give [the audience] what they wanted. [Before each set] there was a better chance that I’d bomb than do well. And I just couldn’t handle being terrible.”
He continued, “Basically, if the audience didn’t like me, I didn’t see the need for me to continue torturing them, or them to torture me. So, I’d just leave. I guess the best way to describe me onstage was ‘unprofessional.'”
David discussed his run-ins with hecklers and wrote that he was always smart about the fights he would have with audience members.
“I did have some fights with the audience, [but] they were really more arguments—I’d say something to them and then they’d say something back. I was never stupid about it, though. I always made sure I had the bouncers behind me any time I said anything,” he said.
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Before his career took off, David shared in his biography that he was voted “Least Likely to Accomplish Anything” by his peers in high school. He had a long list of bizarre pre-fame jobs — from carrying a bag of irregular bras down Broadway to driving a half-blind woman in a limo — all while violently rejecting his mother’s desperate pleas for him to become a postal worker.
“She wanted me to be a mailman. She wanted me to work for the post office. She was always begging me to take the civil service test,” David said of his mother’s pleas.
“Just take the test!! Take the test! What do you have to lose?” he recalled her saying to him.
But the comedian had a very logical reason why he didn’t pursue postal work as his profession.
“I think I could have done the ‘rain’ and the ‘snow.’ But the hail would have done me in, you know? I’m not gonna be delivering in hail,” David said. “I would have gone to the supervisor, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t deliver in hail. I know you got the big motto up there. But I’m not doing hail!'”
“Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David” releases on Oct. 20.
