![]() ![]() Renewed interest in the 1995 trial was ushered in by the FX miniseries “The People v. ![]() “Little did I know 2016 was going to be the year it all came back.” “It was a painful chapter in my life that I certainly didn’t want to revisit,” says Clark, 63, now a bestselling author of crime novels and a defense attorney working with L.A.’s indigent population. Simpson in the murders of wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Clark herself was being tried by the press for her “disastrous” hairstyle, those “dowdy” dress suits and a “sly, coquettish” demeanor that had no place in a courtroom, let alone in the first nationally televised murder trial.ĭefense attorney Johnnie Cochran mocked the single mother when she expressed a time conflict because of babysitting issues, and Clark’s estranged husband publicly questioned her dedication as a mother because of all the time she was spending on the case (he was at least kinder than her first husband, who sold old, topless photos of Clark to the tabloids). ![]() Two decades before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton became the target of nonstop, unsolicited advice on how to win the White House - smile more, change that hairstyle, lose the pantsuit - the media were focused on Marcia Clark and all her missteps toward winning the trial of the century.Īs she worked to convict beloved football hero O.J. ![]()
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