Inside O.J. Simpsons daughter Sydneys no-frills life in a dodgy Florida neighborhood after fleeing haunting LA past

ST.PETERSBURG, Fla.
— OJ Simpson’s youngest daughter has apparently run out of juice.Sydney Simpson seems to have fallen far from the lap of luxury – and landed in a cramped condo in a decidedly unflashy pocket of suburban Florida, The Post has learned.New photos offer a rare glimpse into her quiet, pared-down life in St.Petersburg, where the 40-year-old lives in a ground-floor, 955-square-foot unit – worlds away from the sprawling Los Angeles mansion her family called home before her mother, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Nicole’s pal Ronald Goldman were found brutally murdered outside June 13, 1994. Sydney, just 8 years old at the time, was reportedly asleep in one of the 3,400-square-foot Brentwood home’s four bedrooms while her mother and Goldman were stabbed to death in the courtyard.
Sydney’s NFL Hall of Fame father would later be acquitted of the murders in a famous so-called “trial of the century.”Nearly three decades later, Sydney is residing in a one-story, two-bedroom abode that sits in a squat building shared with three other units.It is just one of the 27 aging, white-stucco-and-beige structures that make up Casablanca Condominiums, a sleepy complex wedged between the area’s busy, four-lane 54th Avenue South and a weathered golf course.Sydney purchased the modest dwelling for $135,000 in cash in December 2020, property records show.
The unit is now estimated to be worth nearly $216,000 – roughly $125,000 below St.Petersburg’s current median home value of about $340,000. Her neighborhood – which locals refer to as “South Side of St.
Pete” – is rough compared to the rest of the peninsula, residents told The Post. “Between 54th [Ave S] and Downtown [St.Petersburg], the city puts no money into that area at all.
…Those people have been living the same way forever – there’s no good housing and none of the affordable housing is decent,” said masonry contractor Peter Gaunt, 75, who has lived in the area for 50 years....