O.J. Simpson death reactions: Goldman family, others shed no tears

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 on 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.

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

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

Her castmate Alyssa Farah Griffin hoped Simpson’s death brings “some peace” to the families of Brown Simpson and Goldman, both of whom Simpson was accused of butchering outside the former’s Southern California condominium.

Goldman’s family won a $33.5 million wrongful death civil suit against Simpson in 1997.

Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, told NBC News that Simpson’s death was of little consequence.

“It’s no great loss to the world,” he said. “The only thing I have to say is it’s just further reminder of Ron being gone all these years.”

In 2021, Fred Goldman lamented to The New York 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 on Thursday that Simpson “died without penance.”

Longtime TV personality Geraldo Rivera also 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 best friends with Nicole Brown Simpson and 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.

Former Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, who testified in his pal’s murder trial, offered condolences to all involved, including Simpson’s four adult children: Arnelle, Jason, Sydney and Justin.

“They lost their father and that is never easy,” Kaelin said on a video posted online.

Meanwhile, the National Football League, as well as teams Simpson played for — the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and University of Southern California Trojans — didn’t address his death on Thursday.

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