Eunice simpson san francisco home

Eunice Simpson, 80, the mother of O.J. Simpson, has died.

Mrs. Simpson, who testified on her son's behalf during his 1995 murder trial, was found dead in her San Francisco home Friday morning by paramedics, according to the city's medical examiner's office.

"She died a natural death in her residence this morning," investigator Richard Vetterli said.

Mrs.

Simpson lived in the home — a modest, three-bedroom residence in a predominantly black, lower-income district — that her son had bought for her in the 1970s while he was playing for the San Francisco 49ers.

Her own moment in the spotlight came during her son's criminal trial for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

When O.J.

Simpson's attorneys opened his successful defense, Mrs. Simpson took her turn on the witness stand to provide a contrast to the prosecution's portrayal of O.J. Simpson as an abusive spouse who killed his former Eunice Simpson, mother of O.J. and inspirational matriarch NUVO