Larry David spotted OJ Simpson on day of Nicole Brown Simpson's 1994

Larry David had two unexpected encounters with O.J. Simpson on June 12, 1994 — the same day Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered — according to a newly released biography. The Seinfeld co-creator recounted the unsettling coincidence in his authorized biography, Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David, written by Blake J. Harris. On that morning, David was dining at the exclusive Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles with his then-wife Laurie, their newborn daughter Cazzie, and fellow comedy writer Alan Zweibel, whose wife Robin was also present.

Two Run-Ins in One Day

Zweibel recalled that the breakfast — and the date — remain etched in his memory, "because that night O.J. Simpson killed Nicole [Brown Simpson] and Ron Goldman." "[We] saw him in the dining room the day of the murder!" David said. According to the book, Zweibel didn't merely spot Simpson — he spoke with him twice that day. "We were having breakfast and all of a sudden I hear somebody say my name: ‘Zwa-bell.’ I turn around. It’s O.J. Simpson," Zweibel said. He explained that his connection to Simpson dated back to his college years. "I knew O.J. because I went to the University of Buffalo while he was playing for the [Buffalo] Bills," Zweibel said. "He was like a god. And when he came to host ‘SNL’ [in 1978], I remember saying to Lorne, ‘This is my hero.’ So I spent a lot of time with O.J. that week. I wrote a lot for that show. And then in subsequent years, we had a mutual friend on Rockingham, and we all had kids around the same age, so we’d see each other at birthday parties and s--- like that," he continued. Later that afternoon, Zweibel crossed paths with Simpson again at his daughter's middle school dance recital. "Our daughters were [both performing]. And on our way out, I again hear a familiar voice," he said. "S---," O.J. said to Zweibel. "Twice in the same day!" Zweibel recounted calling Simpson by his nickname and telling him he had nothing new to report since they had already met earlier. "Though, of course, [in retrospect] what I should have said was ‘Stay home tonight! Order in! Don’t go out!'" he said. Simpson and Nicole wed in 1985 and shared two children, Sydney and Justin. The couple separated in 1992, and Brown filed for divorce after seven years of marriage.

New Allegations Surface

In 1994, Brown and Goldman, her friend, were killed. Simpson stood trial for the murders and was acquitted in October 1995. On Oct. 18, The New York Times reported that a mob-linked drug trafficker with ties to Simpson secretly became a jailhouse informant and claimed to have information about efforts to dispose of evidence, potentially including a murder weapon that was never recovered. The outlet said that Joseph Ippolito, a former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur who knew Simpson, had told federal prosecutors he had information on the murder weapon. One has never been recovered.

David's Wild Early Years

Elsewhere in the biography, David reflected on the decades before Seinfeld when he was a New York City comedian. He was notorious among local comics for abandoning sets midway, refusing to perform if an audience member checked their watch, shouting at paying crowds, and requiring bouncers to shield him from a towering heckler he nearly fought. "I didn't react well to adversity, so I would just walk off," David said. "I was young. I had a bad temper. And my stuff wasn't very commercial. I couldn't really give [the audience] what they wanted. [Before each set] there was a better chance that I'd bomb than do well. And I just couldn't handle being terrible." He continued, "Basically, if the audience didn't like me, I didn't see the need for me to continue torturing them, or them to torture me. So, I'd just leave. I guess the best way to describe me onstage was 'unprofessional.'" David also addressed his clashes with hecklers, noting he was always calculating about confrontations. "I did have some fights with the audience, [but] they were really more arguments—I'd say something to them and then they'd say something back. I was never stupid about it, though. I always made sure I had the bouncers behind me any time I said anything," he said. Before fame found him, David revealed in the book that high school peers voted him "Least Likely to Accomplish Anything." He cycled through a string of unusual jobs — from hauling a bag of irregular bras down Broadway to chauffeuring a half-blind woman in a limo — all while fiercely resisting his mother's pleas for him to become a postal worker. "She wanted me to be a mailman. She wanted me to work for the post office. She was always begging me to take the civil service test," David said of his mother's urgings. "Just take the test!! Take the test! What do you have to lose?" he recalled her saying.