NEW YORK — It was 1977, and Andy Warhol was at work on his “Athletes” series, portraits of top sports personalities who, he felt, were gaining cultural prominence just like “the movie stars of yesterday.” One of them was then the star running back of the Buffalo Bills: O.J. Simpson.
Almost two decades after the portrait was made, Simpson was acquitted of the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, but later found liable for their deaths in a civil trial.
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