Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter. He was a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of O. J. Simpson. He was murdered along with Brown at her home in Los Angeles, California, on June 12, 1994. Simpson was acquitted of their murders in 1995, but found liable for both deaths in a 1997 lawsuit.