Global InformationKilling of Michael Nigg information
Michael Nigg | |
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 An undated photograph of Nigg | |
| Born | April 28, 1969 Gunnison, Colorado, US |
| Died | September 8, 1995 (aged 26) Hollywood, California, US |
| Cause of death | Homicide by gunshot wound |
| Occupation(s) | Waiter, actor, model |
Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had befriended Ronald Goldman. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after Nigg's death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that Nigg's was as well; Nigg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he too had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] It has also been noted that Nigg and Goldman were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
- ^ Hutchison, Joseph (2002). Joseph Hutchison Greatest Hits. Pudding House Publications. p. 26. ISBN 9781589981515.
- ^ "Goldman Friend Slain Resisting Robbery". Deseret News. Associated Press. September 12, 1995. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
- ^ Roberts, Michael (August 20, 2014). "Photos: Ten More Unsolved Colorado Homicides and Families of Victims". Westword. Denver. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
- ^ Bailey, F. Lee; Rabe, Jean (2008). When the Husband is the Suspect. MacMillan. pp. 103–04. ISBN 9780765316134.
- ^ Bosco, Joe (1996). A Problem of Evidence: How the Prosecution Freed O.J. Simpson. William Morrow. p. 94. ISBN 9780688144135.
- ^ a b Freed, Donald; Briggs, Raymond P. (1996). Killing Time: The First Full Investigation Into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. MacMillan. p. 149. ISBN 9780028613406.
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