New Biography Recalls Larry David’s O.J. Simpson Encounter on 1994 Murder Day
A new biography reports that Larry David and O.J. Simpson both had breakfast at the Riviera Country Club on June 12, 1994, the day Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed. David’s friend Alan Zweibel, who had met Simpson in 1978, spoke with him at the club and later saw him again at a dance recital. The anecdote comes from Blake J. Harris’s book Emperor of Nothing.
The book Emperor of Nothing, by Blake J. Harris, includes this coincidence. David had become a member of Riviera Country Club after Seinfeld's success. On that morning, he invited Alan Zweibel, Zweibel's wife Robin, and David's wife Laurie and infant Cazzie to breakfast. Simpson was also in the dining room.
Zweibel had first met Simpson in 1978, when Simpson hosted Saturday Night Live and Zweibel wrote for the show. A Buffalo Bills fan, Zweibel spent that week with Simpson and wrote sketches for him. They later shared a Los Angeles friend and occasionally met at parties. That same day, Zweibel saw Simpson again at a middle school dance recital where both daughters performed.
This anecdote may draw renewed attention to the 1994 murders and the cultural memory around Simpson. Readers interested in comedy, true crime, and 1990s Los Angeles could revisit how chance encounters shape biographies. It may also affect David's and Zweibel's public profiles, adding a somber footnote to David's career. However, because it is a brief recollection in a biography, its broader social impact could remain limited to entertainment and nostalgia audiences.