Oh dear God. Just note my resistence to this story at the very beginning. I would much rather be talking about Michael Fassbender or Angelina Jolie (or both, together, with their clothes off). I really feel bad for Khloe Kardashian at this point, and I think the speculation into her paternity has made a turn for the worst with this story. Last week, Star Magazine/Radar ran with the old rumors that Robert Kardashian was not Khloe’s biological father. They added a new twist by getting quotes from Robert Kardashian’s two other wives, both of whom confirmed conversations they’d had with Robert about how Khloe wasn’t his biological kid.

For a while now, there’s been a big question mark around the issue of “Who is Khloe’s biological dad?” if you really believe Kris Jenner was screwing around (which I do tend to believe). Some say Bruce Jenner might be the father. Some say it was just some random dude, like a lawyer or something. And now The Enquirer claims that Khloe’s bio dad might be… OJ Simpson. Gah.

Khloe Kardashian’s year is not off to the brightest of starts, what with pregnancy problems, paternity problems, a shock move to Dallas to cope with and now, there are fresh rumours that O.J Simpson is her father.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has dealt with her former stepmother making the claim that her late father Robert Kardashian had revealed that he was not Khloe’s biological father. It didn’t help that her mother Kris Jenner admitted in her memoirs that she had been unfaithful to Robert during their marriage and had a wild affair.

Now, it has been claimed that O.J. Simpson’s Robert’s former client is Khloe’s daddy – a rumour that has been brand as “ridiculous” by a source close to the 27-year-old.

“This is ridiculous and laughable,” a source told the MailOnline.

A source told The National Enquirer that disgraced Simpson even believes that he’s Khloe’s real father.

“O.J. told me Khloe’s his child,” they claimed. “It was the big secret that no one in the two families would discuss,” the insider said. “And Robert admitted he and Kris were not having sex at the time Khloe was conceived.”

Meanwhile Kris Jenner has brushed off the wild rumours, by tweeting: “Thanks for all your love and support today dolls! Wow some of the stories out there today are either fabricated, or SO 24 years ago!! LOVE U.”

Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian posted a picture of the front page with the O.J. story on Facebook along with the caption: “Now we have all the answers! It makes sense now! Khloe u are so tan!”

[From Entertainwise]

I understand Khloe’s resistence to discussing this publicly, and I even sort of understand her sisters’ “jokes” about it, but here’s what I don’t get: why doesn’t Kris Jenner discuss this issue directly, in a comprehensive interview with someone major, like Barbara Walters? She loves attention, and she thinks she’s super-famous too. But whenever she talks about this stuff, the denials are half-assed and cryptic. Which makes me think there’s something there.

That being said, I really hope OJ isn’t Khloe’s bio dad. I doubt he is, honestly. OJ always went for blondes, right? Kris was always too dark for him. I would think Bruce Jenner would be a more likely candidate for Khloe’s mystery paternity.

Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN.

In between defending her daughter’s failed sham of a marriage and claiming we don’t real know her family, Kris Kardashian Jenner has been promoting her new memoir, a large portion of which is dedicated to her friendship with Nicole Brown Simpson. During her media tour and in her book, Kris claimed that Nicole reached out to her the day before she was murdered, but that she was too busy to see her. In Kris’ mind, she somehow could have “saved” Nicole if she had only been there for her. It was ridiculous, self-centered and cruel to bring all that up to promote a book, but that’s Kris Jenner for you. She’s responsible for foisting her family on the world and she’s shameless. Well Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister, Denise Brown, went on the record with the Enquirer to denounce Kris and call her both pathetic and a liar. Apparently Kris claims in her book that Denise called her after the murder and asked her about the safe deposit box where Nicole kept photos and other evidence of her abuse. Denise denies ever doing that and says that the fact that Kris is bringing up her sister’s murder is hard for their family to take. Denise also calls out Kris for profiting off her sister’s death.

Kris Jenner is being blasted for writing about the death of Nicole Brown Simpson by the murdered woman’s sister Denise Brown, who says Kris is dredging up the painful past for profit.

What’s worse, Denise says Kris’ version of events – as detailed in the newly released “Kris Jenner…and All Things Kardashian” – is not even accurate!

“Kris Jenner IS pathetic,” Denise, 54, told The ENQUIRER in an exclusive interview.

In the book, Kris writes that the day after Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered in June 1994, Denise called her and asked about some photos Nicole kept hidden in a secret safety deposit box.

“Nicole had been beaten up by O.J., and she had been keeping this physical proof in the form of photographs and, it would turn out, other evidence, in which she had documented seven years of abuse,” Kris divulged in the book. “Nicole really wanted someone close to her to know what was going on, so that somebody – namely me – could be a witness.”

But Denise strongly denies calling Kris, 56, to ask about the photos during those heartbreaking days.

“I had just found out my sister was murdered,” Denise recalled. “The last thing on my mind was whether or not Nicole showed anyone any pictures she had in a safety deposit box.

“In fact, I didn’t even know my sister HAD a safety deposit box with pictures of her abuse until the beginning of O.J.’s trial – months after she was murdered…

““I think most people will question her intentions of writing about my sister’s murder,” Denise fumed. “I am really disappointed in Kris. For the past two-and-a-half years, my family has had some relative peace regarding all of this stuff. Now that Kris has brought it up again, she’s split open the healing wounds.

“For her to write about it is like reliving it all over again. My poor mother is really taking it hard.”

But for the Kardashian clan – who reportedly raked in $65 million last year – it’s all about money, say sources.

“Haven’t they made enough?” Denise added. “Nicole has been dead for 17 years. Please, Kris, don’t profit off of my sister’s horrible death.”

[From The National Enquirer, print and online editions]

I’m glad someone thought to ask the Brown family what they thought of Kris Jenner’s ridiculous claims. The woman is lying through her teeth, and her ex husband was one of O.J.’s high paid defense lawyers. She writes that she never thought O.J. was innocent and that was suspicious of his actions following the murder. So why didn’t she confront her ex husband about it? I’m sure she made up a bunch of excuses and lies about that too.

Kris also revealed that she cheated on her then-husband, Robert Kardashian, with a “producer named Ryan” when she was 30. (Not this Ryan, he would have been 11 at the time.) That was in 1985, and Kris filed for divorce from Robert in 1990. She wrote that “I don’t know why I was having a mid-life crisis at 30, but I was. His name was Ryan, and he was a producer. We had wild sex everywhere, all the time.” TMI from Kris, but that’s what she’s known for. That and bending the truth to promote herself and make money.

These photos of Denise Brown are from 2007. Kris is shown this year making an ass of herself as usual. Credit: WENN.com

For those who are still raging over the Casey Anthony “not guilty” verdict that was delivered last month by a Floridian jury, a slight bit of catharsis (albeit no further justice) can be had in the news that Anthony has been voted to the top of a “Top 10 Most Hated People” poll. Of course this news will do nothing to settle the unrest aimed at the Anthony jurors, who fortunately have been spared the same dubious honor. C’mon, they were really only doing their jobs. Anyway and because I don’t want to freshly stir that pot, let’s get on with the rest of the list, shall we?

What do Casey Anthony, Spencer Pratt and Jon Gosselin have in common? A new poll suggests they’re the most hated people in America!

These public figures top findings by Nielsen subsidiary E-Poll Market Research, the New York Post reports. Joining them are famous names such as O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton and ‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman, all making way on the following top 10 list:

1. Casey Anthony
2. Spencer Pratt
3. Octomom
4. O.J. Simpson
5. Jon Gosselin
6. Levi Johnston
7. Jesse James
8. Paris Hilton
9. Heidi Fleiss
10. Howard Stern

“A lot of the folks on this list are people who are constantly in the news and have nonredeeming qualities,” Mary Ann Farrell, Senior Vice President of Research at E-Poll, says.

[From Hollywood Life]

Okay, I completely understand why Anthony and Simpson are on this list because they’re basically cut out of the same legally-scandalous grain. Also truly reprehensible are Spencer Pratt (and his extremely expensive crystals) and Nadya “Octomom” Suleman because she’s a drain on the taxpayers and acts like such an entitled bitch concerning her own womb. People don’t like Levi Johnston because he’s a reprehensible, deadbeat famewhore and Jesse James because he cheated on and humiliated Sandra Bullock. Naturally, Paris Hilton’s entrance on this list is rather self-explanatory. As to Howard Stern, he loves to be hated, so he’ll probably feel like he accomplished something today. However, do people still care at all about Jon Gosselin or Heidi Fleiss? Their inclusion makes me wonder whether or not the company presented people with a list and asked them to pick which ones they hated the most instead of asking people to name their own suggestions. Pollsters can be so shady like that.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Normally, I couldn’t care less about anything having to do with O.J. Simpson. I’m not of the generation that saw O.J.’s trial as some kind of cultural touchstone. To me, it was just a story about the failure of the judicial system, and there are enough stories like that to fill thousands of books. The last we heard from him, CB reported that his girlfriend was afraid of what he might do to her if and when he gets out of prison, where he’s been since he was convicted of armed robbery (or attempted armed robbery, or something like that, I don’t care enough to look it up, blah).

Anyway, this story is thankfully not about his girlfriend, it’s about his “Girls”. Meaning “The Girls” in prison. That’s what the gay posse call themselves in prison, apparently, and it seems like O.J. and The Girls get along quite famously! I know I shouldn’t find any of this funny, but I do!

O.J. Simpson is despised around the world, but inside prison, he’s treated like royalty by his gay posse! That’s the startling revelation of a former inmate, who recently served time next to the disgraced football hero at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center.

With the help of adoring prisoners and guards, O.J. is able to gamble on sporting events, get special privileges – and even receive massages from a group of gay inmates known as “The Girls,” says the source.

“O.J. may be a pariah on the outside, but in prison, he’s still a somebody,” his fellow jailmate told The ENQUIRER exclusively.

“He’s really tight with ‘The Girls,’” said the source, referring to the openly gayl transgender part of the prison population.

“Whenever we’d be let out to the yard, O.J. would almost always hang out with them. The ‘girls’ treated him like he was a king.”

And “Daddy Juice” really knew how to take care of his “girls”, the source said.

[From The National Enquirer]

Well, it was either Nation of Islam or the gay posse. No comment on the wisdom of O.J.’s choice. But I would love to know how “Daddy Juice” takes care of his girls. I’m letting my mind wander, and something tells me it involves a lot of toilet wine and lube. Sigh… prison. Where the men are men, unless they’re Girls. By the way, the Enquirer called this story, “O.J.: King of Queens”. Which is remarkably clever!

O.J. with some ladies on November 17, 2006. Credit: ROC/Fame Pictures.

Although she spent 13 years with O.J. Simpson, his now ex-girlfriend Christie Prody admits she’s afraid of the former NFL player/current convict. She’s hired lawyer Gloria Allred to represent her, which must mean she wants a little attention, too. Simpson is appealing his conviction on the legal equivalent of “I don’t like being behind bars and should get to do whatever I want without ever having a single consequence.” I’m not up to putting that in legalese. His lawyers are also claiming he should be let out of prison while he’s appealing his case. Naturally, so that he can chill at home, maybe eat a nice steak and watch some T.V. O.J. Simpson should never have to sit in a concrete cell because he kidnapped a guy, robbing and threatening him. Allred claims Prody is afraid that if Simpson’s let out, he’ll contact and/or harm her. This after thirteen years of her denying he killed his wife. NOW she gets that he’s someone to be afraid of.

One person who is hoping O.J. Simpson is not released from prison is the former gridiron star’s now ex-girlfriend Christie Prody, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

Simpson was convicted last December on robbery, kidnapping and weapons charges and sentenced to nine-to-33 years in prison. His attorneys on Monday argued before the Nevada Supreme Court that he should be released pending his appeal.

“Christie would not want to see him released because she is concerned that he might try to see her,” Prody’s attorney Gloria Allred told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “She is concerned that he is dangerous and she fears for her safety.”

Prody was a fresh-faced 20-year-old Nicole Brown-lookalike when she met Simpson. Back then she told her family and friends she didn’t believe he’d murdered his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Over their 13 years together, however, their relationship became increasingly violent, with numerous calls to 911 and allegations of drug and alcohol abuse.

A decision on Simpson’s request for bail could come at any time.

[From Radar]

I tend to go back and forth in my ability to have empathy for Christie. I mean she dated O.J. Simpson for 13 years. That’s a lot of time to make a better decision. And obviously it makes sense for to be as afraid of a rage-filled killer when he’s your ex-boyfriend as when he’s your boyfriend. It just seems to me like she should have been afraid all along.

In related – and tacky – news, the story of the botched heist that landed Simpson in prison is being made into a movie, according to the Enquirer.

Coming to a theater near you – O.J. The Movie! The knuckleheads behind the botched Las Vegas robbery that ended up landing O.J. Simpson behind bars for up to 33 years are now going to be immortalized in a Hollywood movie.

A script for the film version of the book “Busted!” – ex-con Thomas Riccio’s account of the bungled 2007 Sin City heist – has been making the rounds at top Tinsletown agencies and studios, where it’s caught the eye of filmmakers Nick Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese, among others.

The Enquirer has obtained a copy – which casts the main players in a startling light. The story is Riccio’s take on what happened when the former Heisman Trophy winner and his henchmen stuck up memorabilia collectors Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong in their Las Vegas hotel room to get back O.J.’s items.

As crazy as it seems, the screwed-up “gang that couldn’t shoot straight” is going to be portrayed in the movie as a bunch of heroes.

[From the National Enquirer, August 10, 2009, print ed.]

Well that just makes me physically ill. Simpson won’t profit off it, but Riccio sure will. In fact he’s already made a good deal of money from that ill-fated night – the Enquirer also says that he’s earned at least $200,000 from a secret audiotape of the crime, and received a $350,000 advance on the book. He’s also portrayed as a “noble righter of wrongs,” instead of a true criminal, even though he’s got a lengthy rap sheet. This’ll probably make Simpson pretty infuriated too. Maybe more reason to keep him behind bars… just in case.

Here are OJ and Christie in 2006. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Would you ever date a man who famously, unjustly escaped being convicted of killing his wife? Would you continue to stay with this man even after he abused you for 12 years? Well, Christie Prody did. She was delusional enough to think O.J. Simpson was boyfriend material, even after his famous murder trial that revealed all the ugly details of his years of abuse of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown. Well, now Prody is revealing how O.J. abused her as well in a not-so-shocking tell-all book. And guess who’s not happy about it?

O.J. Simpson’s ex-girlfriend has penned a sensational book about her 12 years with the disgraced football great – disclosing a twisted life of drugs, sex, violence and betrayal.

In this steamy tell-all – to be published later this year – 33-year-old Christie Prody lays bare the couple’s private life, beginning with their meeting in Los Angeles in 1996 and ending with Simpson’s jailing for armed robbery and kidnapping last December.

“When O.J. heard Christie was writing the book, he went nuts!” an insider told the Enquirer.

“He was frantic trying to phone her. He wanted to control what she would say and even called her family members. But Christie isn’t pulling punches, and she’s not talking to O.J.”

Prody, who received a mega-bucks book deal, reveals that at the time the two met she was in denial over O.J.’s murder of his ex-wife. He later confessed to her that he killed Nicole Brown, but insisted that Nicole brought it on herself. Christie says 61-year-old Simpson preferred talking about his trial in bed nearly every night after having sex.

Christie fell in love with Simpson and had no fear for her own life.

“When she got pregnant two times in the first five years of their relationship, she had abortions,” disclosed an insider. “O.J. didn’t want any more kids, but he wouldn’t even drive Christie to an abortion clinic.”

The couple’s years together were fueled by booze and cocaine parties, and they even made a sex video. But there were also confrontations that pushed both to the edge, and the Miami police were called to Simpson’s home.

“During one fight, Christie pulled out O.J.’s pistol from a drawer in his nightstand and put it to her head,” disclosed the insider. “She was crying, threatening to pull the trigger.

“On another occasion, Christie kicked Simpson in the groin and dropped him to the floor in a hotel hallway. Police were called.

“O.J. often insulted Christie’s looks in front of his friends, and she would go off on a drug and booze binge to cope with the embarrassment.”

By 2008, Christie wanted to leave but was dug in too deep. “She still enjoyed living with a famous man. She enjoyed the attention,” said the insider.

[From The National Enquirer print version, April 29, 2009]

What attention – the punches in the face? I guess if you’re delusional enough to get romantically involved with a known abuser and suspected killer, the kind of “attention” O.J. showers on you could be construed as positive.

Look, I have no love for O.J. but this woman is an idiot. I can’t see this book doing well. After all, nobody wanted anything to do with O.J.’s book. The public has decided that no one should profit from any aspect of O.J.’s life and that, to me, includes this stupid bimbo. I’m sorry that she had to endure this violence, but come on- did she really think she was going to get anything different than all the other women O.J.’s been with?

Here are OJ and Christine in 2006. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Yesterday we heard the news that Hulk Hogan made some tasteless and offensive comments to Rolling Stone in which he said he was so outraged by his wife taking up with a 19 year-old kid that he could “totally understand OJ.” He didn’t just leave it at that, explaining that he “could have turned everything into a crime scene, like OJ, cutting everybody’s throat.” Those comments of course didn’t sit well with relatives of the victims of OJ’s horrific crime, for which he was acquitted, many claim wrongfully, in 1995. The sister of Ron Goldman, who was murdered along with OJ’s ex Nicole, has called Hulk’s comments “vile” and “hurtful” and reminds us that it’s never ok to talk about killing someone:

“It’s disturbing,” Kim Goldman tells Usmagazine.com. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex wife Nicole Brown and Ron in 1995. Two years later, a civil jury found Simpson guilty and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the Goldman family….

Continues Kim to Us: “It’s sick to me that people throw around violence so whimsically. That has always bothered me. Then there’s the part of me that thinks, well at least he thinks he did it. The warped part of me.

“It’s vile to speak of anybody in that way and it’s hurtful, demeaning and so many layers of ugliness attached to it. I’m always very sensitive to people saying they would kill someone,” she goes on. “I don’t speak that way anymore, so when I hear it, it has such meaning attached to it. It says a lot and speaks to his level of violence and propensity for it. It’s sad.”

[From US Weekly]

Hogan’s representative tried to do damage control for his terrible comments, saying that Hulk “in no way condones the O.J. situation” and that “he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation.”

We get that part of it, but how is it ever justified to say that you understand murdering people because the woman you’re separated from has a new boyfriend? Hulk has had a girlfriend for a while too, his daughter’s best friend. Granted Hulk’s girlfriend is 30-something as opposed to a teenager, but he’s still being a hypocrite for getting so angry at his wife for doing the same thing.

Meanwhile Linda’s lawyer says that Hulk’s comments are of course an example of how violent he is and what a threat he poses to his client. Hulk was also called a “serial cheater” by Linda’s lawyer:

“Hulk’s serial cheating destroyed our marriage, our family and our future,” she snaps in a statement released to Usmagazine.com. “Sadly, his recent comments remind us that his definition of fair is much different than what the law dictates.”

“We have always maintained that the fear that Linda has had to live with comes from the rage and instability much too often associated with pro wrestlers,” Gary Smith says in a statement. “Linda and her family are taking these recent homicidal comments seriously. Linda’s attorney Ray Rafool is weighting all options necessary to protect his client.”

[From OMG.Yahoo.com]

If anything happens to Linda at this point I guess we’ll know who is responsible. Maybe she’ll get a restraining order and a bodyguard. She’ll also probably get more settlement cash due to Hulk’s stupid remarks. The last we heard she was receiving $40,000 a month in alimony payments but still claimed to be broke. Those 19 year-old boy toys don’t come cheap.

Hulk Hogan is shown outside MTV’s TRL on 7/1/08. Credit: WENN.com

Christie Prody in September, 2007. Credit: Splash News

O.J. Simpson is in prison in Nevada serving a 33 year sentence for felony charges stemming from a September, 2007 armed robbery of a sports collectible dealer in Nevada. OJ’s long-suffering girlfriend, Christine Prody, hasn’t wasted any time moving on with her life. Simpson only started serving his sentence in December of last year and Prody is already pregnant with another man’s baby:

While the 61 year-old disgraced football star sits in a Nevada prison cell, Christie, 33, has decided to put her tumultuous past with O.J. behind her. She’s left the Miami home they shared and moved to a small town near Fargo, N.D., where she’s found love and plans to start a family.

“Christie’s like a new woman without O.J. in her life,” a close friend revealed to The Enquirer. “She’s fallen in love with a local young man in her hometown. Now she’s pregnant and looking forward to having the baby.”

One person who definitely was not thrilled with the baby news was O.J., says the friend.

“O.J. ranted and raved over the phone from his prison. He said, ‘I can’t believe she did this to me!’

After O.J. was sentenced… he made numerous phone calls to Christie, screaming at her to visit him in jail, says the friend.

“She was trying to get her life together and go on without him. She finally stopped accepting collect calls from O.J.,” said the friend.

“She told me, ‘To hell with O.J. I was there for him for years, and he treated me like dirt.’”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, April 6, 2009]

It’s a good thing OJ won’t be eligible for parole for at least 9 years or this woman would have a lot to worry about. She was beaten to a pulp last year, and claimed to cops that she “fell down.” Cops say that her injuries were consistent with a fall, but it still sounded suspicious to me.

Prody was with OJ for over ten years, and started dating him when she was just 21. She broke up with him in the past, but couldn’t quite escape. At least he’s safely put away now so she can move on with her life, hopefully in a more supportive and non-abusive relationship. Killer OJ might be spending the rest of his life in prison.

Photos below are of OJ and Christie in 2006. Credit: Fame Pictures

OJ had better get used to prison gray uniforms, as he will be wearing them for at least 6 years. Photo credit: Bauergriffin.

The sentencing in the OJ Simpson trial has just subsided. Simpson was convicted in October on 12 counts including kidnapping, armed robbery and burglary for his part in a badly-planned robbery to get back some of his sports memorabilia which he’d either sold or lost years ago. In an unusual turn of events, Simpson made a statement to the judge just before the sentence was handed down, maintaining his innocence. (See a clip of that statement here.) It reeked of arrogance and insincerity, and the judge wasn’t having any of it. She basically told him to sit down and shut up and went on with the sentencing. Simpson’s co-conspirator in the crime was also sentenced. Ron Goldman’s father was in the courthouse, as were O.J.’s children from his marriage to Nicole Brown.

O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a judge ordered today. He is eligible for parole after six.

O.J. pleaded his case to the judge before she sentenced him, but to no avail.

Simpson was convicted on October 3 of 12 criminal counts, including kidnapping, armed robbery and burglary after he and a few pals broke into a Nevada hotel room in an attempt to recover allegedly stolen sports memorabilia.

Simpson’s cohort, CJ Stewart, was also sentenced to 16 years. He is eligible for parole after six.

David Cook, a lawyer for the Goldman family, tells TMZ, “Fred Goldman is certainly going to wish Mr. Simpson a pleasant journey.”

[From TMZ]

The judge in this case prefaced her sentence by making it clear to the court and the media that her job was to sentence Simpson appropriately for these crimes and not the murders he was acquitted of nearly 15 years ago. Once the sentences were read, Simpson and Stewart, who were dressed in prison-issued gray coveralls, were led out of the courtroom and back to jail.

Personally, I can’t think of a better place for Simpson to live out his golden years. I know that we’re not supposed to look at this as retribution for the murders he was acquitted of (and most likely committed), but I can’t help it. Since getting off for those murders, OJ has done nothing to “find the real killers” as he once so famously promised, and instead has pissed away what little money he had left after paying his high-profile team of lawyers by playing golf, running through a string of women and so on. He even attempted to profit from the murders with his “fictional” book, “If I Did It,” which ended up being pulled from bookshelves and generally deemed to be in the poorest of taste. If you ask me, the acquittal only made OJ’s ego even bigger – he truly believed he was above the law and could get away with this latest crime. Luckily, the Las Vegas jury and judge didn’t agree.

Even though he has yet to be sentenced and sent to the prison where he will serve his time, O.J. Simpson is already a marked man. The National Enquirer has interviewed legal insiders that said O.J. is going to have an extremely rough time and should expect to spend a good deal of it in solitary confinement – not out of punishment but for his own safety. The effect is still nearly the same though.

Members of the Aryan Warriors have already threatened Simpson’s life. They’re an enormous and very powerful gang throughout the prison system. The Enquirer also claims Simpson is suicidal and under constant surveillance. His situation certainly sounds grim. It seems like either he’s a dead man because of someone else of by his own hands.

“I’m a dead man!” the disgraced gridiron great declared when he phoned pals shortly after his conviction. Even as he sat in his dank Las Vegas jail cell just hours after jurors found him guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping, guards worried he would be marked for death. For his own safety, he was put in an isolation cell dubbed “the hole” by prisoners.

“He’s scared to death – so much so that he won’t eat, and he has been given medication for depression,” disclosed a source. Simpson has plummeted to such depths of despair, revealed an insider, “he was put on suicide watch. Someone is watching him nearly every minute in case he tries to strangle himself with whatever he can find in his cell.”

“O.J. has two major things working against him as he heads to prison – he killed two white people and he’s a celebrity,” a Nevada prison system insider told the Enquirer. “He’s a target for the Aryan Warriors, a very powerful and deadly prison gang whose members want to finally deliver O.J. fatal justice. They’re waiting for him to arrive – it’s going to be like tossing meat to the wolves. He’ll be dead within weeks.”

[From the National Enquirer, Oct. 20, 2008, print ed.]

Simpson being on antidepressants isn’t that unusual. I have a friend who’s a social worker in the mental health unit of an L.A. prison and she said almost everyone in the entire system is on at least anti-depressants just to get through the experience.

It definitely sounds like O.J.’s life is clearly in danger. Being a celebrity is always super dangerous in prison. I cannot even imagine what would have happened to Michael Jackson had he been convicted. O.J. definitely has a rocky road ahead of him.

The pessimistic part of me thinks he’ll probably end up serving such a small amount of real time that it won’t matter. But no matter what, he’s sure going to cost the state of Las Vegas a lot of money between all the extra security he’s going to require. If nothing else, he deserves to do his time. I’ve always thought a long prison sentence would be much harder than death.

Here’s Simpson at Johnnie Cochran’s funeral in 2005. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.