What Is Marcia Clark Doing Now?

While Marcia Clark might have catapulted back into the mainstream with the debut of the first season of Ryan Murphy's "American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson" in 2016, Clark (pictured above with actor Sarah Paulson, who played her on the show) had already carved out a successful career after the trial that put her name in print came to a close. 

But it was also a hard-fought battle — after the conclusion of the Simpson case, which ended in Simpson's acquittal, Clark left the district attorney's office in 1997 after a two-year leave of absence due to the stress and scrutiny she endured by the press (much of which, as Vogue noted in 2016, was highly gendered, focusing on her appearance rather than her work). 

In a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Clark described the experience in the aftermath of the infamous court case, in which she divulged she "couldn't even think of going back" to the profession or to work for the D.A.  "The misery was so profound," Clark recalled. "The only thing I wanted was, 'Get me away from there' — the ugliness I had been through. When my overtime and vacation time ran out, I had my office packed up. I never went back." 

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