Misinformed fans — and/or trolls — are flooding the comments sections of Khloe Kardashian's most recent X and Instagram posts with "condolences" after OJ Simpson's death, based on the unfounded conspiracy theory that he is her real father.

Though both Kardashian and Simpson have vehemently denied the rumor, with the reality star and Good American founder slamming “a–holes” and “haters" for it as far back as 2017, apparently this one still has legs.

Kardashian has not publicly commented on his death.

Here's a look at how NFL stars and sports commentators are reacting:

The Kardashian clan had history with OJ Simpson long before becoming one of the most famous families in America.

Robert Kardashian, the patriarch and late ex-husband of Kris Jenner, was famously part of the legal team that defended Simpson during his sensationalized 1994–95 murder trial.

Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. However, the former football star was controversially acquitted thanks to his legal “Dream Team,” drawing a wedge between Kardashian and Jenner.

After the attorney’s death in 2002 from esophageal cancer, the Kardashian family did their best to sever ties with the retired Buffalo Bills player before his death on April 10, 2024.

Read on for a breakdown of Simpson’s history with the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” crew.

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After sensationally being acquitted of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995, OJ Simpson remained in the public spotlight for years marred by controversies and scandals.

The once-beloved Pro Football Hall of Famer, who lost his battle with prostate cancer on Wednesday, had a knack for getting into trouble long after his highly publicized court battle for the 1994 double murder.

While most remember Simpson, 76, from the courtroom, others got acquainted with the ex-Buffalo Bills star from his arrest while trying steal back his sports memorabilia in Las Vegas, or when he tried to cash in on his notoriety with a poorly titled book, or when he starred in a prank show and bizarre rap music video called “Get Juiced.”

Even in the last months of his life, Simpson continued to make headlines with his awkward jokes referencing the infamous trail, capping off his controversial legacy.

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NPR was quickly criticized over its tweet announcing OJ Simpson's death, which referred to him only as a "football great" and did not mention his murder trial and subsequent crimes.

OJ Simpson denied reports that he was in hospice care two months before his death.

“Hey X world, hospice? Hospice? You talking about hospice?” he posted to X on Feb. 9.

“No, I’m not in any hospice. I don’t know who put that out there,” he added. “I guess it’s like Donald [Trump] says, ‘You can’t trust the media.’

“In any event, I’m hosting a ton of friends for the Super Bowl here in Las Vegas. All is well, you know. So take care, have a good Super Bowl weekend.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre expressed condolences Thursday on the death of former NFL star OJ Simpson — but made no mention of the two people he was accused, and sensationally acquitted, of killing nearly 30 years ago.

"Our thoughts are with his families [sic] during this difficult time — obviously with his family and loved ones," Jean-Pierre said of Simpson. "And I'll say this, I know that they have asked for some privacy. And so we're going to respect that. And I'll just leave it there."

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OJ Simpson once bragged about a sexual encounter with Kris Jenner – who was then married to one of his closest friends.

The former NFL star and convicted felon – who died Wednesday at age 76 – claimed to have had sex with Jenner in a hot tub sometime in the early 1990s, his former manager Norman Pardo claimed.

“‘OJ said he stood up, pulled his shorts down and, I’ll give you exactly what he said: ‘Her eyes bugged out of her head and I f–ked that B until I broke her,’” Pardo alleged in a clip from his documentary “Who Killed Nicole?” obtained by Page Six in 2019.

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The book tour was possibly the strangest ever launched: A murder victim’s family promoting a work written by the acquitted suspect about how he would have done the killing — you know, if he’d wanted to.

But truth was always stranger than fiction for those captured in OJ Simpson’s dark, shadowy orbit.

And Ron Goldman’s family learned that the hard way 17 years ago, when they traveled to London to push a book that supposedly contained OJ’s version of what happened that fateful night of June 12, 1994, according to the Guardian.

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OJ Simpson, who died Wednesday at the age of 76, had a varied career in Hollywood as an actor and a pitchman before his 1994 trial for double murder in the deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

The handsome former Buffalo Bills star with the marquee good looks, nicknamed “The Juice,” was at the epicenter of pop culture for his movie, TV and commercial roles throughout the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s. It seemed, during those days, that you couldn’t turn on your TV without seeing one of Simpson’s Hertz commercials where — as a spokesman for the rental car company — he ran and careened through airports, nor ignore his big-screen work, most notably in the comedic “Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen.

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Gloria Allred, who represented Nicole Brown Simpson's family during OJ Simpson's murder trial in one of the now-famous victims' rights attorney's first big cases, told TMZ that the former NFLer's death is a reminder of how the justice system failed women in abusive relationships.

"Simpson's death reminds us that the legal system even 30 years later is still failing battered women, and that the power of celebrity men to avoid true justice for the harm that they inflict on their wives or significant others is still a major obstacle to the right of women to be free of the gender violence to which they are still subjected," she said.

Allred also spoke to New York's ABC/7, saying, "I don't mourn for O.J. Simpson, I do mourn for Nicole Brown Simpson and her family and they should be remembered."

"What was important was that there was some form of justice in the civil justice system that found that he was in fact liable for her wrongful death and the wrongful death of Ronald Goldman," she added.

Actor Kato Kaelin, a witness in the OJ Simpson murder case, spoke out after the suspect's death in a video on X Thursday afternoon.

He offered condolences first to Simpson's children, then the family of victim Ron Goldman, and finally to Nicole Brown Simpson's loved ones.

"Nicole was a beacon of light that burned bright," the actor said. "May we never forget her."