Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition
O.J. house on the block
As Simpson goes before parole board, former home is for sale.
As O.J. Simpson awaits his parole hearing at a Nevada prison today, some people have wondered: Whatever happened to his former Kendall pad? It’s for sale for $1,299,900. “The house is all new,’’ said Oscar Ramirez, the real estate agent for the home’s current owner, Southern Farms International USA. He said it has been on the market for seven months. Renovations included impact windows.
The house is 4,148 square feet and sits on a 1.65-acre lot that includes a guest house, a swimming pool and a basketball court.
Simpson, the former NFL player who was acquitted in 1995 in the fatal stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, bought the four-bedroom, four-bath house near Pinecrest in 2000 for $575,000.
Built in 1953, the gated house at 9450 SW 112th St. is half a mile from South Dixie Highway and half a mile from Miami Killian Senior High School.
Simpson lived in the home with his son Justin and daughter Sydney when they were teenagers. Both were students at the nearby prestigious Gulliver Schools. During those years, the family became known locally for their outings to restaurants.
The Heisman Trophy winner lived there until he began a prison sentence in 2008 for kidnapping, armed robbery of sports memorabilia and other charges from a 2007 incident at a Las Vegas hotel room.
The 70-year-old Simpson, who has served about 8 1⁄2 years of a nine-to-33 year pris-
on sentence, is expected to appear before the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners today.
If his parole is approved, he could be released as early as October from the Lovelock Correctional Center, according to media reports.
JPMorgan Chase Bank foreclosed on the Kendall house in 2012. The property was then bought by Global Rental E& P, an investment company in Doral, for $513,000 in 2014, according to Miami-Dade Property Appraiser records.
Southern Farms International USA, which has a Weston mailing address, bought the house for $1.2 million in 2016, according to property records.
“I have had offers, but nothing has been completed,” Ramirez said.