But it was the trial itself that captivated viewers from January to early October. The trial and its players became fodder for tabloids. Headlines promised revelations about the victims, their friends, even some of the attorneys.
Some critics lament that the event marked a new low in American journalism.
We've become much more like them. Dozens of books were written by or about many of the players in the so-called trial of the century. Among the authors were Nicole Simpson's friend Faye Resnick and Simpson's former houseguest Kato Kaelin, who even parlayed his association with both O.J. and Nicole into a Los Angeles radio show. Most of them were garbage. The publishing frenzy hasn't stopped in the months since the verdict.