With the loss of life of O.J. Simpson, Kris Jenner and different family members of the late Robert Kardashian have been reminded of their deep and typically troubling connection to the disgraced former soccer star.

This was particularly for Khloe Kardashian, who has lengthy been the topic of a persistent however unsubstantiated rumor that she secretly was the organic daughter of Simpson, who was controversially acquitted within the double homicide of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her good friend Ron Goldman.

Quickly after information broke Thursday that Simpson had died of prostate most cancers, Khloe Kardashian’s social media accounts have been inundated with messages from individuals expressing sympathy, little question in a joking, mean-spirited approach.

“My condolences,” wrote one particular person in reply to her current Instagram publish, exhibiting her strolling on a white-sand seaside on a household trip in Turks and Caicos. “Sorry Khloe for ur loss,” stated one other. Another person stated, “My most heartfelt sympathies on the lack of your father OJ.” On her X, account, somebody additionally stated, “So sorry to listen to about your dad. Praying for you and your loved ones in these instances.”

The rumors that Khloe Kardashian was Simpson’s secret daughter return to a minimum of 2011, when her mom, Kris Jenner, revealed in her memoir, “All Issues Kardashian,” that she had an affair whereas married to lawyer Robert Kardashian, the daddy of Khloe, Kim, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian, in line with Us Weekly.

Robert Kardashian was a long-time good friend of Simpson, and folks latched onto the concept that Kris Jenner’s affair might have concerned the fallen soccer hero, Us Weekly reported. That’s largely as a result of Robert Kardashian’s second spouse, Jan Ashley, alleged in an interview, after his 2003 loss of life, that Khloe Kardashian was not his organic daughter, in line with Us Weekly.

Ashley married Robert Kardashian after his 1991 divorce from Kris Jenner. In 2012, Ashley stated within the interview: “Khloé isn’t his child — he advised me that after we bought married. He simply type of checked out me and stated (it) prefer it was a matter of reality. He stated, ‘Nicely, you recognize that Khloé’s not likely a Kardashian, don’t you?’ And I stated … ‘OK,’ and that was it.”

From that time on, the general public ran “wild” with the rumor that Simpson was Khloe Kardashian’s actual father, Us Weekly stated. Simpson himself could have fueled the rumor when he supposedly claimed he had intercourse with Jenner in a scorching tub someday within the early Nineteen Nineties, the New York Submit reported.

This declare was recounted by Simpson’s former supervisor Norman Pardo in a clip from his documentary, “Who Killed Nicole?” The clip was obtained by Web page Six, which quoted Pardo as saying that Simpson boasted in regards to the scorching tub encounter, saying he “broke” Jenner along with his sexual prowess.

Nevertheless, Simpson and Khloe Kardashian denied the rumor that he was her father, Us Weekly stated.

Khloe Kardashian even addressed the rumor throughout a 2012 episode of “Holding Up With the Kardashians,” which was aptly titled “Who’s Your Daddy,” in line with Us Weekly.

The episode confirmed Kris Jenner visiting Khloe Kardashian in Texas, the place she was residing with then-husband Lamar Odom on the time.

“I do know all of the rumors are completely ridiculous,” Jenner stated, whereas making an attempt to persuade her daughter to take a DNA take a look at. “However I do know that is one thing she wants with a view to really feel full.”

Jenner managed to persuade her different youngsters, Kim, Kourtney and Rob, to take DNA checks as a comparability. Khloé Kardashian, nonetheless, declined.

“Mother, I don’t care what they’re saying,” Khloé Kardashian stated on the present. “Critically, my dad is Robert Kardashian. My different dad is (Caitlyn) Jenner. I don’t want somebody to inform me who my household is. I’ve had the blessing of getting two phenomenal fathers. I don’t want a DNA take a look at to show who my father is.”

Khloe Kardashian was referring to Caitlyn Jenner, who turned her stepparent after the previous Olympian married Kris Jenner in 1991. Kris and Caitlyn Jenner divorced in 2015.

Kris Jenner additionally furiously denied any strategies that she had an affair with Simpson, saying in a 2019 episode of “Holding Up with the Kardashians” that she was significantly upset that reviews of the affair have been arising once more on the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1994 homicide of Nicole Brown Simpson, who was her good good friend.

‘It’s actually type of pathetic that when rumors get began, the media provides it life and breath and on the anniversary of Nicole’s loss of life. It’s so tasteless and disgusting,” Kris Jenner stated.

Other than Khloe Kardashian and her mom having to take care of the Simpson paternity rumor, following the information of his loss of life, Robert Kardashian’s friendship with Simpson has had different lasting penalties on the household — and on America — for higher, and plenty of would say, for worse.

It may very well be stated that America first bought acquainted with the long run realty TV present household and social media behemoths by way of Robert Kardashian’s participation in Simpson’s authorized “Dream Group,” when Simpson was tried for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Shortly earlier than the murders, Kris Jenner and her youngsters have been a significant presence in Simpson’s life, largely due to her friendship with Nicole Brown Simpson. Actually, Jenner, her then-spouse, Caitlyn Jenner, and her youngsters vacationed with O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson and their youngsters in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, a pair months earlier than the murders.

A throwback picture of the luxurious spring-break getaway in 1994 was resurfaced Thursday and circulating on social media. In keeping with The Solar, the picture exhibits the 2 households posing on a patio, with a seaside within the background. The picture exhibits a younger Khloe, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, in swimsuits, smiling fortunately, whereas Kris and Caitlyn Jenner and O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson stand within the background. Additionally within the picture of O.J. and Nicole Simpson’s youngsters, Justin and Sydney, who have been preteens on the time.

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