FX's "American Crime Story," which just finished its first season, has breathed new life into the O.J. Simpson murder case, and an explosive upcoming ESPN documentary will do the same.
More than 20 years ago, many Americans were shocked when a jury acquitted Simpson of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
Despite two decades having passed, people still obsess over the case and whether Simpson, a former NFL player, was guilty of stabbing his ex and her friend to death.
The drama of the televised trial unfolded in Americans' living rooms — including the scene where Simpson tried on a glove that supposedly belonged to the killer. Of course, it didn't fit.
Many of the star players in the Simpson trial are still trotted out to weigh in on current court cases, including the trial of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of "culpable homicide" for killing his girlfriend. (An appeals court later scaled the conviction up to murder.)
Other lawyers involved in the Simpson case have taken strikingly different routes, devoting their lives to helping to exonerate innocent people.
You might not have heard some of these names in a while. Here's what the stars of the O.J. Simpson trial are up to today.
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Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti has found a new calling — photography.
As the district attorney in Los Angeles in 1994, Gil Garcetti captured national attention when his office decided not to pursue the death penalty while prosecuting O.J. Simpson.
When Simpson was acquitted in 1995, people began writing Garcetti's "political obituaries,"The New York Times noted. But he redeemed himself the next year when his office secured a conviction of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents.
These days, Garcetti has pursued a different career: photography. In 2014, CNN reported that he had completed eight books of photographic essays and become an opponent of the death penalty.
"My focus is on photography and other things not related to the criminal-justice system or even to the law. I made that career decision when I left, after the voters told me to leave," he told CNN.
Garcetti does keep some crime drama in his life, though. He has served as a consultant for the TV show "The Closer" and, more recently, "Major Crimes."
Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood plays him in the FX series.
Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman went on to write true-crime books and serve as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News.
One of the first investigators on the crime scene, Mark Fuhrman, later testified that he found the notorious bloody glove, The New York Times reported back in 1995.
Fuhrman made national headlines when he was accused of being a racist and even of using the "n" word. He pleaded "no contest" to a perjury charge that he lied in court about using the slur.
These days, Fuhrman serves as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News Channel.
He's written a number of books, including "Murder in Greenwich," which chronicles an unsolved murder that has gotten national attention.
Steve Pasquale plays Fuhrman in the FX show.
Former prosecutor Marcia Clark now writes legal thrillers.
Lead prosecutor Marcia Clark became a household name during the 1994-1995 trial, which was broadcast into the living rooms of everyday Americans.
By October 1994, a "roving band of reporters" surrounded Clark as she left the courthouse one day, The New York Times reported at the time.
The Times noted that Clark made efforts to change her appearance in an apparent effort to seem more sympathetic to the jury. During the trial, she started sporting "shorter, better-kempt hair that framed her face, warmer and lighter-colored dresses with softer fabrics, more jewelry," according to The Times.
Clark scored a $4.2 million book deal by the end of the trial. These days, Clark describes herself on her Facebook page as the author of the Rachel Knight series about a district attorney in Los Angeles.
"Writing novels and being in the courtroom — it's a storytelling job, no matter how you look at it,"Clark told Oprah Winfrey in 2013. "It's the same thing."
Clark — who's played by Sarah Paulson in the FX show — recently spoke to the New York Post about the dramatization of the O.J. trial.
"I could sit back and appreciate the brilliance of the performers, but I kept coming back to the idea that two people are dead. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. It was pretty hard sitting through the first two episodes," Clark told the Post. "Whatever you think of [OJ] Simpson, the murderer walked away. No one was brought to justice."
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