Ron Goldman

Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and aspiring actor. A volunteer working with children with cerebral palsy, Goldman appeared as a contestant on the short-lived game show Studs in early 1992. Goldman lived independently from his family and supported himself as an employment headhunter, tennis instructor, and waiter, and worked occasionally as a model. Goldman earned an emergency medical technician license, but he decided not to pursue that as a career. In 1994, Goldman befriended Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O. J. Simpson. On June 12, 1994, Goldman was murdered along with Brown, outside her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Following a controversial and highly publicized criminal trial, Simpson was acquitted of both charges of murders, though he was later found liable for their deaths in a 1997 civil lawsuit filed by Goldman's father Fred, which rendered a $33.5 million judgment for damages. At the time of Simpson's death in 2024, the money had still yet to be paid in full, which prompted Fred Goldman to file a $117 million creditor claim against Simpson's estate in July 2024. On November 17, 2025, it was announced that Simpson's estate agreed to pay $58 million to Goldman's father to settle the claim.