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Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995) 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. 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. The case attracted some media coverage at the time because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman had been found slain along with Nicole Brown Simpson at her home near the restaurant after he had gone there to return her mother's glasses, which had been left behind at the restaurant. Her 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 has consistently protested his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after Nigg's death. Alternative theories of the murders have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area, and that Nigg's was as well. He apparently lived very well for a waiter, and by some accounts he had also been involved in drugs. Nigg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s. ==Background== Nigg was born in Gunnison, Colorado, where he grew up and attended Western State University. After graduating, he went to the Los Angeles area to try to start an acting or modeling career.〔 He made an appearance on ''Liars'', a syndicated television series.〔 While seeking jobs and roles, he worked at restaurants waiting tables to support himself. By 1994 he was working at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, on the city's Westside. Among his friends and coworkers there was Ronald Goldman. He worked there until a month before June 1994, when Goldman was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of football star O. J. Simpson. As Simpson's trial for the killings progressed, Nigg went to work at another restaurant, Sanctuary, located in Hollywood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Michael Nigg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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