Kim Kardashian looked back at being at the 1998 trial with her then-boyfriend TJ Jackson “every day” after his mother Dee Dee Jackson was found dead in her boyfriend’s swimming pool
Kim Kardashian recalled taking the stand during the 1998 murder trial for her then-boyfriend TJ Jackson’s mother Dee Dee.
The 42-year-old Kardashians star described her teenage years as “hectic” as her late father Robert Kardashian Sr. was involved in numerous headline-making trials and she stood by TJ after his mom was found dead in the pool of her boyfriend Don Bohana in his Ladera Heights, California, home.
“My dad was going through all those trials and it was pretty intense in my life,” she told Vogue Italia. “My boyfriend’s mother whom I was really close with was murdered in 1994 and I had to be part of that trial.”
Though he was acquitted of the double-murders in October 1995, Simpson was deemed liable for the deaths in 1997 in a civil case brought by the two victims’ families. In 2008, he was convicted for his role in the armed robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. He was released from prison in 2017 after serving nine years.
Kim, who was around 14 years old at the time of the initial trial, said it was difficult to navigate the opposition between her divorced parents.
“My mom was extremely vocal on her feelings — she believed that her friend was murdered by him and that was really traumatizing for her,” she shared. “And then we’d go to my dad’s house and it was a whole other situation there.”
“We didn’t really know what to believe or whose side to take as kids, because we didn’t want to hurt one of our parents’ feelings,” she continued.
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In recent years, Kim has become an advocate for criminal justice reform, which she called “her life’s most meaningful work” at the TIME100 Summit in April.
The SKIMS founder’s legal efforts began in October 2017 after learning about the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who had been in prison since October 1996 after being convicted for helping facilitate communications in a drug trafficking case. (Johnson believed she would be pardoned in 2016 when then-President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 people — including many with similar nonviolent drug charges — but Johnson was passed over.)
After learning about the case through a video report by Mic, Kardashian retweeted the clip, wrote “This is so unfair,” and began fighting for her clemency.
After Johnson was released from prison in August 2020, Kardashian continued to advocate for other wrongfully convicted inmates; most recently including asking for the temporary release of a jailed father whose daughter was killed in the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
She passed the first-year law students’ examination (“baby bar”) in December 2021 after first revealing her aspirations to become a lawyer in May 2019.
Source: people
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