PERSONALITIES ON MONDAY: Who was Robert George Kardashian (1944 - 2003)

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Born: February 22, 1944

Deceased: September 30, 2003 (aged 59)

Spouses: 

• Kris Houghton (now Jenner)​

•Jan Ashley

•Ellen Pierson

Alma Mater: University of Southern California (BS)

University of San Diego (JD)

Children: Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Rob Kardashian

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Robert George Kardashian was an American attorney and businessman. He gained national recognition as O.J Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial.

Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 22, 1944, one of three children born to Arthur Kardashian (1917–2012) and Helen Jean Arakelian Kardashian (1917–2008), both Armenian Americans.

He had a sister, Barbara Kardashian Freeman, and a brother, Thomas "Tom" Kardashian. The Kardashians were Armenian Spiritual Christians.

 

Originally from Kars Oblastnown and known by the surname Kardaschoff, a Russianized form of the Armenian surname Kardashian, as the area, though now part of modern-day Turkey, was then part of the Russian Empire.

Once in the United States, Arthur's father, Tatos, changed his name to Thomas, and began a career in garbage collection, founding his own business, and married Hamas Shakarian, also an immigrant of Armenian heritage.

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OJ Simpson

Kardashian and Simpson first met around 1967 while both of them were at USC and became close friends. Simpson was the best man at Kardashian and Kris Houghton's (now Jenner)  wedding in 1978.

Following the June 12, 1994, murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house to avoid the media. 

Kardashian was the man seen carrying Simpson's garment bag the day that Simpson flew back from Chicago. 

Prosecutors speculated that the bag may have contained Simpson's bloody clothes or the murder weapon. 

When Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, 1994, Kardashian read a letter by Simpson to the assembled media. This letter was interpreted by many as a suicide note.

Though prosecutors argued that Simpson was implicated by a significant amount of forensic evidence, he was acquitted of both murders