Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American lawyer best known as one of the lawyers for, and friend of, O. J. Simpson.
[After graduating from the University of Southern California, Kardashian earned a law degree from the University of San Diego and practiced for about a decade; after that, he went into business. He did not enter a courtroom again until Simpson's trial 20 years later.
He is the father of reali...
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Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American lawyer best known as one of the lawyers for, and friend of, O. J. Simpson.
[After graduating from the University of Southern California, Kardashian earned a law degree from the University of San Diego and practiced for about a decade; after that, he went into business. He did not enter a courtroom again until Simpson's trial 20 years later.
He is the father of reality stars Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, and Robert Kardashian, Jr., with his former wife Kris Jenner.
Kardashian and Simpson first met in the early 1970s and had become close friends. Kardashian had let his license to practice law go inactive three years before the Simpson case. He reactivated his license to aid in Simpson's defense, as a volunteer assistant on his legal team. Kardashian sat by Simpson throughout the trial.
In the days following the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, O. J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house. Kardashian was...
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