Simpson is being sued for wrongful death in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.

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Simpson has contended that his hand was cut when he broke the glass after being told of his ex-wife's death.

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Douglas, who was apparently informed of her ex-husband's death by her Twitter followers, said she was "sad to hear the news".

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An ex-convict suspected in the death of Colorado's prisons chief shed a parolee monitoring device days before the murder, officials have said.

BBC: Suspect in prison chief murder slipped parole monitoring

Oddly though, there was no mention of the Gallaghers' idol John Lennon, just two days after the 25th anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death.

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They only ever had one number one single, a cover of John Lennon's song Jealous Guy, recorded in the wake of the ex-Beatle's death.

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The slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office.

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The new jury heard from ex-girlfriends and was taken to visit the scene of Clarkson's death.

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