Years after she sentenced him to prison, O.J. Simpson posed for a photo with Judge Jackie Glass

Years after she sentenced O.J. Simpson to prison, former District Judge Jackie Glass ran into him at a restaurant with a group of lawyer friends, resulting in a photograph that later emerged after her death. Glass, her friends and Simpson are all smiling in the image, which also features her daughter, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Rebecca Wolfson. On X, the photograph had garnered 2.1 cardinal views, 15,000 likes and 672 reposts as of Tuesday afternoon. “OJ loved beauteous blonde women, truthful my mom’s person baited him into taking a picture,” Glass’ daughter, histrion and comedian Rachel Wolfson, wrote on social media. “He had nary thought helium was taking a photograph with the justice who sent him to prison.” Lawyer Justin Randall, who appears in the photo, commented on Rachel Wolfson’s Facebook page: “I can’t judge we kept this representation nether wraps for 6 years.” Glass’s husband, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, recalled the encounter in a Tuesday interview: “One night, Jackie went retired to meal with her friends and there’s O.J. And I don’t deliberation it was Jackie’s idea, due to the fact that it wouldn’t beryllium her idea. It was 1 of the girlfriends that she was with that said, ‘Hey, wherefore don’t we spell up and instrumentality a representation with O.J.?’” He added that Simpson liked posing for photos with people he perceived as fans, and his wife’s friends persuaded Glass to join the picture. “He had nary thought that the sentencing justice that sent him to situation was lasting conscionable a fewer feet away,” Wolfson said. After leaving the bench in 2011, Glass worked as a mediator. Former Clark County District Attorney David Roger, who prosecuted Simpson, said he and Glass exchanged Simpson stories during a mediation, including the tale of the photograph. Glass told him it occurred at the end of the COVID‑19 pandemic, when people still wore masks, and that she removed her disguise just before the picture was taken to avoid detection by Simpson. Malcolm LaVergne, a Las Vegas lawyer who represented Simpson, said his client held Glass in high regard. “Simpson thought she was just and controlled her courtroom well,” LaVergne said, “but believed his condemnation was excessively long.” LaVergne also recalled Simpson telling him about seeing Glass at an event. “I don’t know if he knew she was in that specific photo, but he saw her,” LaVergne said. “She couldn’t just fell the full time. He knew who she was.” He concluded: “If that is cathartic to Rachel to post that to grant her mother, I am 100 percent for it.” Simpson was convicted in 2008 of kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at Palace Station the previous year, leading Glass to sentence him to 9 to 33 years behind bars. He had previously been acquitted of the 1994 killings of his ex‑wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial. Simpson was paroled in 2017 and died in 2024.