Marcia Clark Finds Redemption In Second Bout With Fame

Two decades ago, Marcia Clark led the team of lawyers hoping to convict football star O.J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. But she was dealing with more than just courtroom pressure: Clark faced a hungry media that critiqued her for her looks and mocked the single mother’s conflicts related to babysitting issues. Two of her ex-husbands spoke out publicly against her. Now 63, Clark looks back on that 1995 trial as “a painful chapter in my life that I certainly didn’t want to revisit.” But, “little did I know 2016 was going to be the year it all came back.” FX’s miniseries, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and the ESPN documentary, “OJ: Made in America” thrust Clark back into the spotlight. This time the attention was more admiring. “She’s resurfaced as an inspirational figure in a new wave of feminism bolstered by [Hillary] Clinton’s candidacy (even if it failed), President-Elect Donald Trump’s boasts of sexually assaulting women, and the collective power of millions of women on social media who now connect on issues like sexism in the workplace, reproductive healthcare and outing serial rapists in their respective communities,” the Los Angeles Times writes in a profile piece. Clark told the Times, “I was dreading all that [O.J. trial] stuff coming up again, but clearly, times have changed. … [B]oy was I pleasantly surprised.”