Remember a few years ago when Ashlee Simpson’s lip syncing equipment broke on the set of SNL and she did that ridiculous little hoedown dance? That is the exact dance I’m doing right now, because two of OJ Simpson’s (alleged) accomplices have flipped, and there is a chance OJ might actually do some time! I’ll wait while you all do your hoedown dance too.

It never ceases to amaze me that people are willing to mess with OJ Simpson. As much as I hate the guy, I would be scared out of my mind to turn state’s evidence on him. But that’s exactly what Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore, two of Simpson’s accomplices, are doing. The two were in a Las Vegas courtroom yesterday, and agreed to accept plea deals in exchange for their testimony against Simpson.

“‘He[Cashmore] can establish who was in the room, what was said, who had guns, who didn’t have guns, potentially who may have seen guns, who didn’t see guns,’ Cashmore’s lawyer Edward Miley said outside court. ‘I think he wishes he would have never met O.J.’ While Alexander’s attorney didn’t specify the nature of his client’s testimony, Miley said that what the Mesa, Arizona, man had to say could clarify Simpson’s role in the incident.

“‘What Mr. Alexander, I’m assuming, will be able to say is who told them to bring firearms, what planning there was, and what was said and done after the fact,’ Miley said. Simpson and his lawyers have denied guns were in the room. His lawyers have not commented on Monday’s turn of events. Speaking to reporters afterward, Cashmore apologized to his friends and family and said he was doing the right thing by turning on Simpson. Alexander and Cashmore both waived their preliminary hearings and are due back in court Oct. 23.

“Alexander faces up to six years in prison, while Cashmore is looking at a maximum of five—still, that’s a far cry from the possible life-in-lockup punishment that comes with the nine felonies and one gross misdemeanor all the codefendants were originally facing, counts that include armed robbery, kidnapping, burglary, assault with a weapon and conspiracy.”

[From E! News]

I would absolutely go to jail before I’d rat out O.J. You know that even if he doesn’t come after you, he knows people that definitely will. It doesn’t matter that they can link it all back to him, the guy is way too crazy to care. And either way, you’re dead, so it’s pretty much a raw deal.

I’m going to start taking bets on how much time he’ll serve. I’m guessing sentenced to 5 – 10, out in 2-3 with good behavior. Assuming he’s not ganged up on and… well you know. Justice is sweet. Best served hot, but I’ll take it cold.

We’re allowed to say O.J. Simpson is a wife beating murdering piece of shit now – at least the civil court found him guilty. I hate, hate the way he has been living in comfort while the families of his victims fought for a decade to get their $33.5mil settlement out of O.J., but it seems he might have been a little hard up for cash – and nothing makes me smirk more than the idea of him being hard up for cash!

A Santa Monica judge ordered the former football star to turn over his gold Rolex Submariner watch — estimated to be worth $12,000 to $22,000 — to the family.

But the Hall of Fame running back hit them with a fake — literally — when it was discovered that the luxury timepiece was a knockoff made in China, worth about $125.

“It was made by the finest craftsmen in China,” said David Cook, the Goldman family attorney who plans to return the watch to Simpson. “It’s a people’s Rolex.”

Los Angeles Times

Hey O.J., my dad is a postal worker and still has a real Rolex, you’re telling me you can’t afford one?

I’m also pretty happy that the man who allegedly wrote the ‘If I Did It’ book isn’t going to profit from it, but the families of his victims are. The victory would only be sweeter if I thought O.J. had written any of it himself. The only bit he probably contributed was the ‘I didn’t do it’ part.

O.J.’s hearing for his involvement in an armed robbery and kidnapping has been set for November 8th. Now the memorabilia he was trying so hard to get his hands on is being held as evidence. You know what I have to say about that? Hahahahahahaha!

You know what makes me happy? The thought of O.J. Simpson being someone’s bitch in prison. Yeah I know the likelihood that he’ll go to prison is pretty slim – it’s O.J. after all, he could go all Rambo on the inside of a police precinct and somehow get away with it. And I know the likelihood that he’d be someone’s bitch is also pretty slim – but a girl can dream, right? And that’s my dream, because I have a frighteningly retributive nature. But after the thought of O.J. going to prison and O.J. bending over, the thing that makes me the next happiest is O.J. losing all his stuff to Fred Goldman & Company. I can’t believe the Juice has been able to live his lavish lifestyle for so long, but better late than never.

“A California judge on Tuesday ordered the ex-football hero to fork over a Rolex watch, among other items, to help satisfy the $33.5 million judgment for the wrongful deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. David Cook, a lawyer for Goldman’s father, Fred, said after Tuesday’s hearing that the Submariner Rolex could be worth anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000. ‘In this case, if it’s Mr. Simpson’s, then it would be ours,’ Cook told reporters outside the Santa Monica courthouse. Simpson’s Los Angeles-based attorney, Ronald Slates, expressed doubts about the Rolex’s authenticity and said he had already collected the timepiece from his client and planned to turn it over to Goldman’s camp by Tuesday afternoon. ‘Know any Rolex watches that sell for 125 bucks?’ he asked, noting that’s the amount Simpson told him he paid for it. But the lawyer conceded that if it is a knockoff, ‘it’s a pretty good copy.’”

[From E! News]

The very best part? If any of that “sports memorabilia” that Simpson was arrested for trying to steal back is found to actually belong to him, he has to surrender it – so he loses either way. Party up in here!

“Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg also ordered the Naked Gun star to surrender any of the memorabilia from last month’s purported Las Vegas heist that is found to belong to Simpson. He is currently facing 11 criminal counts, ranging from armed robbery to kidnapping, for taking the items. Simpson, 60, has proclaimed his innocence, stating that all the mementos belonged to him and he was just conducting a ‘sting operation’ to get them back.

“As for the cache of memorabilia, Slates said he had no way of handing over any of it because Las Vegas police have confiscated it for evidence. Cook countered that Rosenberg’s ruling states that should Simpson be found to own any of the disputed collectibles, which reportedly includes footballs, jerseys and photos, then they must be given to the Goldmans. ‘As we said earlier, Mr. Simpson is going to walk out of Las Vegas bust. You’ve always heard that expression,’ Cook added. ‘He’s not walking away with that sports memorabilia. That’s what the judge ordered, and he’s going to literally walk away empty-handed for all his trouble.’”

[From E! News]

I wish you all could see my happy dance. It’s very undignified, completely unhinged, and totally worth it. I love to see this wife-battering murderer getting what he deserves. I doubt much of anything will wipe the smug grin off his face, but maybe living in a box down by the river might be a good start.

Proving that skankiness can transcend the generation gap, the mother of OJ Simpson’s creepily Nicole Brown lookalike girlfriend, Christie Prody, has resorted to informing the media that her daughter isn’t a big bag of herpes. And by that I mean she’s letting us all know that Prody is faithful in her love to the Juice. Supposedly, Prody slept with Simpson’s gardener, Janos Gonzalez, and OJ went apeshit. You know how some people just look smart? Prody isn’t one of them. But it’s a relatively small percentage of the female population that are so stupid that they’d be dumb enough to fuck with OJ under any circumstances, especially romantic.

“The mother of O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend Christie Prody said her daughter is not the type of girl who fools around with the household help. Defending her 32-year-old daughter against reports that Simpson went ballistic when he learned that Prody supposedly had slept with his gardener, Cathy Bellmore, 54, told the Daily News, ‘No, that isn’t her. That’s not in her character. She’s never cheated on a boyfriend before.’ The gardener’s wife, Marlene Gonzalez, disagrees. She has said Simpson showed up at their Miami home on July 29, raving about how Prody and her husband, Janos Gonzalez, had had sex earlier that day. She said she gave the football great the brushoff, but when Simpson saw her husband, Simpson went into a rage and threatened to kill him. Police came to the home, but no charges were filed, she said.”

[From the Daily News]

And how exactly did OJ meet this Nicole doppleganger? Apparently Prody was in L.A. And waved to Simpson. He walked up to the car and asked for her number. This was right after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Doesn’t that just give you goosebumps, butterflies, and heart palpitations all at once? According to Prody’s mother, Simpson is her second boyfriend. Ewww. Way to settle down with a winner.

“‘Christie was always a very shy, quiet girl. She gave me absolutely no trouble whatever,’ Bellmore said. Mom said it’s heartbreaking to see her daughter caught up in the latest Simpson melodrama. ‘She’s a great person who’s involved in a messy situation,’ said Bellmore. Asked why her daughter doesn’t split from Simpson, Bellmore said, ‘There’s reasons. I just can’t get into it.’ Asked if it was love that kept Prody tied to him, Bellmore said, ‘I don’t know what it is anymore.’”

[From the Daily News]

Boy those last two quotes really inspire confidence. Her own mother sounds like she’s slightly afraid for her daughter, but is still willing to hint that her daughter may not love Simpson. She doesn’t know what it is that keeps Prody tied to Simpson? Fear of a knife wedged into a major artery could be one.

Picture note by Celebitchy Christie Prody is shown in Vegas the night before OJ was arrested. Thanks to Splash News.

I’m just going to go ahead and say it: OJ Simpson is one big ball of dumb. How in the world does someone that notoriously famous for getting away with crime think he could very publicly commit a planned criminal act with lots of accomplices and witness and get away with it? Dude, you only got away with it the first time because you killed everyone there. The only living witness was the Akita. Unless you did that here, it wasn’t going to work out well for you dude. People know what you look like (that vertical football shaped head isn’t helping you blend in) and who you are. How could tis have turned out well? Unless you’re banking on the “I’m a notorious murder who isn’t afraid to do it again because I can get away with it” theory, this is going to blow up in your face.

I admitted last week that I don’t know shit about sports. So to me, I guess I just don’t understand how some football memorabilia is more important than your freedom. Go on eBay, I’m sure you can find some knock offs.

“After being whisked away in handcuffs, Simpson was booked Sunday night on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and conspiracy to commit a crime and burglary with a firearm, police said.

“The district attorney said he expected Simpson to ultimately be charged with seven felonies and one gross misdemeanor. If convicted, Simpson could face up to 30 years in prison on each robbery count.

“A judge ordered Simpson held without bail. Las Vegas court information officer Michael Sommermeyer said Simpson’s arraignment was set for Wednesday, with a bail hearing to be held after that.”

[From Yahoo News]

Well here’s hoping. I really doubt OJ would be sentenced to 210 years (oh.my.gosh would that make me happy) but maybe he’ll do some time. I really doubt that it’ll be anything significant, but you never know. The man will shell out some crazy money for lawyers… though I’m not sure how, since theoretically he’s supposed to be living in poverty. But I’m sure he’ll figure out a way to get top of the line attorneys and he won’t do any significant time. Technically he doesn’t have priors, at least relating to murdering people.

“‘We believe it is an extremely defensible case based on conflicting witness statements, flip-flopping by witnesses and witnesses making deals with the government to flip,’ [Yale] Galanter [Simpson’s attorney] said Sunday.

“Beardsley blamed the incident on [Thomas] Riccio [co-owner of and auction house], who he claims told Simpson that his property was in the room in Las Vegas.

“‘If they don’t charge Riccio I will be very upset. That guy lied to O.J. and got him all pumped up,’ he said.”

[From Yahoo News]

I guess Yale Galanter never learned that very basic lesson that we are all responsible for our own behavior. Lying to OJ Simpson about his former possessions doesn’t mean it’s his fault OJ decided to break into a room with guns and steal his old stuff back. OJ getting too “pumped up” and angry has been a well documented problem for him. Along with blaming everyone else for that anger.

A transcript of the recording of the event has just been released.

“An apparent audiotape of O.J. Simpson’s standoff with men he accused of stealing his memorabilia begins with the ex-NFL star demanding, ‘Don’t let nobody out of here.’

“‘Think you can steal my s— and sell it?’ the voice identified as Simpson’s said.

“Simpson was arrested Sunday and booked on charges connected with what police described as a robbery at a Las Vegas hotel. In the audiotape released Monday by the celebrity news Web site TMZ.com, a man believed to be Simpson is heard shouting questions while other men yell orders to the people in the room.

“The recording was made by Thomas Riccio, co-owner of the auction house Universal Rarities, according to TMZ. Simpson has said Riccio called him several weeks ago to tell him collectors were selling some of his items.”

[From Yahoo News]

OJ Simpson is so delusional, and it’s sad that the legal system has given in and encouraged his delusions. It’s also upsetting that he’s become a bit of a celebrity, and people ask for his autographs. It’s just encouraged his delusions of grandeur, and his feeling that he can give in to any whim he wants. I really hope and pray he does time for this, and that history won’t repeat itself.

Update: Here’s a link to TMZ’s copy of the Simpson recording. Not suitable for work.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Simpson being led away in handcuffs by plainclothes police officers in Vegas.

On Friday I promised commenters that I wouldn’t post Simpson’s picture again without putting a “Mr. Yuck” sticker over his head first. I’m not sure I can do that without getting sued by the photo agencies, so I’m sticking it here and you all can visualize it on his face if it helps.

You know the phrase “Once an ego maniacal wife beating rageaholic murderer, always a thief”? Well it turns out my just-coined phrase perfectly describes OJ Simpson, who has been named as a suspect in a casino break-in. Now before images of “Oceans 11” flash through your brain, keep in mind that OJ is not nearly as sophisticated, nor as non-scary, as Brad Pitt and George Clooney. OJ’s tactics are a little more “round up a posse and kick stuff”-esq. Reports are still conflicted, so I’ll do my best to explain what’s being alleged, and the different versions therein.

“Investigators questioned O.J. Simpson and named him a suspect Friday in a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia. The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late Thursday night, police spokesman Jose Montoya said. He said investigators determined the break-in involved sports collectibles. ‘When they talked to him, Simpson made the comment that he believed the memorabilia was his,’ Montoya said. ‘We’re getting conflicting stories from the two sides.’

Simpson was released after he and several associates were questioned, but he is considered a suspect in the case, Montoya said. He is believed to be in Las Vegas. ‘We don’t believe he’s going anywhere,’ he said. Simpson has had to auction off his sports collectibles, including his Heisman Trophy, to pay some of the $33.5 million judgment awarded to the Goldman family.

[From Yahoo News]

You don’t believe OJ Simpson is going anywhere? Does he have Al Cowlings and a white Bronco within 30 yards of him? Oh, I’m sorry, it’s now called a Ford “Escape.” Even better. OJ Simpson, if you’re forced to sell your sports memorabilia by the court, even though you really don’t want to, it’s no longer yours. That’s what happens when you murder two innocent people and a civil court finds that you owe their families a lot of money that your refuse to pay. You lose your trading cards. Actually the specific memorabilia in question has not been named. But I’m going with trading cards, because Simpson seems more than crazy enough to fly to Vegas to steal a pack of them.

MSNBC is reporting a more detailed account of what went down:

“Investigators questioned O.J. Simpson and named him a suspect Friday in an incident at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia. ‘When they talked to him, Simpson made the comment that be believed the memorabilia was his,’ police spokesman Jose Montoya said. ‘We’re getting conflicting stories from the two sides.’

“NBC affiliate KVBC-TV reported that a man alleged that Simpson and four other men, one with a gun, confronted him about sports memorabilia at his Palace Station hotel room. KVBC-TV reporter Angela Martin said a man, whom she did not identify by name, had told her that Simpson and four men had entered his room, with Simpson demanding he return what Simpson said were sports memorabilia stolen from him years ago.”

[From MSNBC]

You’d think that if any significant sports memorabilia (significant enough for OJ Simpson and a bunch of friends to go to Las Vegas and break into a guy’s room with a gun) was truly stolen from Simpson, it would have been reported in the press. I’m guessing Simpson considers it stolen because he wanted it and the court made him auction it off. I could be totally wrong, but because I consider this guy to be the lowest life form on Earth, I’m going with the most selfish scenario possible. Even if the memorabilia was truly stolen from him, that doesn’t mean Simpson can break into someone’s hotel room to steal it back. No matter what the reasoning, it seems he committed a crime. Wouldn’t it be just fabulous if OJ Simpson at least went to jail for a this? Yeah it’s not much, and I really doubt he’d be anyone’s jail bitch, but it’d still be something.

Many commentators are pointing out the extraordinary coincidence that Simpson is in the news for a significant criminal act for the first time in so long. Today is also the release of his book “If I Did It” – the so-called fictional account Simpson provided of how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman, if he’d killed them, which he stresses he didn’t. Simpson lost the rights to the book because he still owes the Goldmans most of the $33 million awarded to them in the wrongful death suit. The Goldmans were awarded the rights to the book and decided to go ahead and publish it, but instead of a “hypothetical account” they’re labeling it “true crime.” Whatever money the Goldmans make from the book sales will go to satisfy Simpson’s debt to them. Perhaps OJ’s just trying to raise sales?

Update: OJ has told the Associated Press that he was conducting a sting operation and he was escorted into the room to collect his belongings, according to MSNBC. The reporter, John Larsen, also kept laughing when he said it.

It’s been a bad week for O.J. Simpson. But I hope every week is a bad week for him, so it makes me really happy to report that America’s number one murdering asshat has just received another financial judgment against him. A judge ruled that any earnings Simpson receives from lending his likeness to the video game “All-Pro Football 2K8” published by Take-Two Interactive Software, must be turned over to Fred Goldman, the father of murdered Ron Goldman. “All-Pro Football 2K8” features 240 former football greats, and Simpson’s virtual team is called “The Assassins,” and they have a knife-wielding mascot. That is really beyond disgusting. The double murderer will do anything for attention.

“The legal victory was part of an effort by Goldman’s estate to satisfy a $33.5 million judgment won against Simpson in a wrongful death suit brought against him in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. The former star running back was acquitted of criminal charges in 1995 at the end of a sensational murder trial but was found legally responsible for their deaths by a civil court jury two years later.

“Simpson has maintained his innocence and vowed never to pay the jury award voluntarily.

“In their latest bid to collect on the civil judgment, the Goldmans went after any licensing fees, royalties or other compensation Simpson was paid or will be paid for his name and likeness in the new video game, ‘All-Pro Football 2K8.’

“As previewed on a Web site for video game promotional trailers, the team mascot is a hooded figure who makes stabbing motions with a large knife in the end zone when the Assassins score. Simpson does not have to be assigned to that team, but he was in a clip shown on the Game Trailers Web site.

“Take-Two has declined to say how it obtained rights to Simpson’s name and likeness but said he was compensated. The company also has issued a statement saying the knife-wielding Assassins mascot is ‘not specifically associated with O.J. Simpson, and the game does not promote any such connection.’”

[From Reuters]

That’s great. Because the American public is just dumb enough to buy that baloney, right? I’m sure it’s all coincidental. And your company gets a ton of free press, albeit it negative. I just don’t get O.J. He has publicly proclaimed that if all his earnings have to go to the Goldmans and the Browns, then he won’t work another day in his life. I’m not saying lending your likeness to a video game or ghostwriting a book is hard work, but the guy knows the money is going to go to the Goldmans. They aren’t stupid, and they are vengeful. They have every right to be. You would think that, if nothing else, Simpson wouldn’t want to capitalize on most people’s belief that he’s a murderer for the sake of his children. Even if they believe their father is innocent (and they probably do, he’s their father and he’s raised them) their mother was still murdered, and it’s incredibly poor taste to make money off her horrifically violent death.

Yesterday Ron Goldman’s family was finally awarded all of the rights to OJ Simpson’s book “If I did it.” The family first won a $38 million wrongful death lawsuit against Simpson in the late nineties. Simpson has publicly declared that he will never voluntarily pay the Goldmans a penny, even if it means he never works for the rest of his life. When he wrote his “hypothetical” book, he created a shell company in his children’s’ names, so that he could still get the money and the Goldmans couldn’t touch it. Well obviously that didn’t work out to well, as they, and most of the rest of the world, were incredibly offended that Simpson would write such a book and actually get to keep his reported $1 million advance. So they took him to court and have now won the rights to everything regarding the book, which has been auctioned off. They’ve decided to publish it under the True Crime genre. Simpson has again lashed out against the Goldman family, saying that if he can’t make money off the book, neither should they. He did an interview broadcast on business news Web site Market News First on Tuesday.

“I find it sort of hypocritical that they talked everybody in America to boycott the book: it was ‘immoral,’ it was ‘blood money,’” he told interviewer Kate Delaney. “But we now see it wasn’t ‘blood money’ if they got the money.”

Goldman attorney David Cook said his clients were justified in accepting rights to the book as payment for the judgment against Simpson.

“Mr. Simpson himself has placed us in this horrific setting of seeking to liquidate this asset,” he said. “His comments are beyond redemption.”

[From the Associated Press]

In another snippet of his interview, Simpson talked about how hard his life was considering what a great guy he is, and how very, very unfair this world is.

“To me, it hurts me the most. The two things that hurts me the most— well, other than being considered a murderer and all that— is that to some degree, exposing this racial divide, which might be a good thing. I don’t know. It’s being considered a batterer when every girl I’ve ever dated stood by me during the trial. Every girl I’ve ever dated, when Interpol in Europe and the FBI and everybody interviewed them and said, That’s not O.J.

And even Nicole’s closest friends will tell you that after we split up and even while we were going through our divorce, every time she had a problem, her closest friend will tell you she would come to me. If she had problems with guys or how to handle guy, I was the guy she came to for advice, and yet I ended up through one incident on a New Year’s night, which we’ll talk about tomorrow, became the poster boy for abuse. And that hurts me. That still hurts me.”

[Snipped from On the Record with Greta Van Susteren]

The Goldman family was then interviewed by Greta Van Susteren on FOX news, where Fred Goldman responded.

“The killer [Simpson] several months ago filed bankruptcy of his sham company that he used to move the money from HarperCollins to himself. And in an effort to stop us from getting the rights to the book in California, he filed bankruptcy.

The bottom line is that when all was said and done, the court awarded us the rights to the book through bankruptcy, and turns out that’s a good thing as far as we’re concerned. We took away an asset of his that he was protecting, that he was using to make money. We took it away. He will never make money with it again.”

[From On the Record with Greta Van Susteren]

Kim Goldman, Ron’s younger sister, added the following:

“You know, our hope with acquiring the rights, obviously, like my father said, was to take something away from him. But at this point, you know, we have an opportunity to try to turn this around and do something positive with it. You know, my father and I for a long time have wanted to start a foundation, which we did. We launched it. And you know, with a portion of the proceeds of the book going to the foundation, we hope for better situations of other victims of crime. So we’re going to work very hard to make this an easier process as we move forward.”

[From On the Record with Greta Van Susteren]

O.J. Simpson is so delusional it boggles the mind. Not only is he a murderer, but he’s angry that people don’t treat him like the special, wonderful celebrity that he believes he is. Someone who should be able to kill and avoid the law, be it jail or financial judgments. He’s truly mad that these people are still upset that he killed their son. I can’t even say much, I get so mad just knowing that a person like this can exist in the world.

Someone leaked parts of the transcript of O.J.’s controversial “If I Did It” interview with his would-be publisher, Judith Reagan, to The NY Times. The interview was never aired after outrage from the victims’ families and the public forced Fox to scrap it. OJ’s book was similarly canned, and Reagan was fired from her job at Harper Collins.

All of the details O.J. gave in the interview and book were laughably called “hypothetical” in a transparent attempt to maintain his innocence. O.J. received a hefty advance for the never-published book that would have seen him profit on “hypothetical” murder. The exact amount of the advance was not confirmed, although speculation is that it was around $1 million. O.J. said that he spent his book advance on bills, but a federal judge froze the money, saying it was owed to the victim’s families as part of a $33.5 million civil lawsuit they won against him. Neither his ex-wife Nicole Brown’s family or the family of her murdered friend Ronald Goldman has seen a dime.

In the transcript obtained by The NY Times, O.J. says there are details of the uh, murders by some random other person that he can’t remember. He does say that if he did do it, there was an accomplice that he calls Charlie. The guy came to him that night to tell him dirt about his ex-wife Nicole, probably that she was sleeping around, and he got all worked up and decided to confront her.

Charlie came with him to the scene, where Goldman happened to be by sheer bad luck and good samaritanship for returning Nicole’s sunglasses. Goldman tried to do karate on O.J. after Nicole “fell and hurt herself,” most likely after O.J. smacked her, and then O.J. used the knife that this guy Charlie brought to him from the car at the opportune moment.

After the deed was done, O.J. asked “Charlie” to get rid of the evidence for him:

Mr. Simpson introduces a new character to the well-known cast: a man identified only as Charlie, someone he had recently met and befriended, and who, in the hypothetical accounts, served as an unwilling accomplice to the murders.

Mr. Simpson says in the interview that Charlie came to his house that night and told him of troubling aspects of Ms. Simpson’s personal life, things Mr. Simpson said “had to stop.” The two drove to Ms. Simpson’s nearby home. He says that he always kept a ski hat in his car for chilly mornings on the golf course, along with a knife to deal with “crazies.” Mr. Simpson says he left the knife in the car, with Charlie.

As Mr. Simpson approached his ex-wife’s door, Mr. Goldman arrived, the two began exchanging angry words, and Ms. Simpson came out and joined the argument, Mr. Simpson says. After she “fell,” Mr. Goldman squared off against Mr. Simpson in a karate stance. Then Charlie showed up with the knife.

Mr. Simpson says he remembered grabbing the knife from Charlie. He says he then blacked out. His next memory is being covered in “blood and stuff.”

Asked by Ms. Regan to describe the bloody scene in greater detail, he at one point suggests that viewers read the book because he found it too difficult to discuss. Moments later, he speaks about it in a way that suggests he holds no more knowledge of the crime scene than anyone else who had watched the televised trials…

The transcript does not contain any remarks by Mr. Simpson about what happened to the bloody clothes or the knife he described in the interview. But in the manuscript Mr. Simpson wrote that he gave a bundle to Charlie with explicit instructions to “make sure it disappears … forever.”

At first I thought, “Oh ‘Charlie’ is Kato Kaelin,” but now I’m pretty sure he’s not. The reason I assumed that is because he’s the only guy I know connected to the case who was a friend of O.J. and Nicole and who saw O.J. that night.

O.J. said that the man who came to him with the news about Nicole was a “recent” friend, though. Nicole and Ron Goldman were murdered in June, 1994. Kaelin moved into the guest house at then-Nicole and O.J.’s mansion in mid January 1993, according to his testimony at Simpson’s trial. He ended up moving to the guest house behind O.J.’s Rockingham estate when Nicole and O.J. sold their place. He wasn’t a “recent” friend, and since Nicole is the one he was friends with first and who invited him to stay, it doesn’t seem like he would betray her by talking smack to O.J.

TMZ had a recent story that Kaelin said “What do you mean if?” when asked what he thought about O.J.’s book “If I did it.” There’s a book about Kaelin by a guy who interviewed him extensively and claims he knew how crazy jealous O.J. was, which does not jibe with his cleaned-up testimony at O.J.’s trial. The author says Kaelin tried to spare O.J. and be likeable on the witness stand, and didn’t talk about how whacked O.J. was. Kaelin denied O.J. was jealous in his cross examination, and basically said that O.J. didn’t talk about Nicole to him, wasn’t any different on the night of the murders, and that the only thing he heard was three “thumps” that night that he mistook at first for an earthquake, but was probably just O.J. turning on the air conditioning.

Regardless I don’t think Kato was the one at the scene, so who was there? Of course O.J., I mean the other murderer O.J. is channeling for his aborted book, is responsible, not the accomplice. That accomplice should be at least tried since O.J. already bought his way out of a life sentence.

Who was O.J.’s recent friend at the time who could have handed him the knife and disposed of it afterwards? They have stuff like this all the time on that “Cold Case” show. You can’t try a person twice for the same crime, but you can find the other person that’s responsible and bring them to justice.

Of course there might not have been another person there, and O.J. could be making Charlie up to make it seem like he was driven to double murder by forces beyond his control.

Update: Maybe O.J. isn’t clever enough to make up a person who wasn’t there. According to the evidence at his trial, the defense “noted that the genetic material of an unknown person was found in the steering wheel blood,” which they used as part of their conspiracy theory that O.J. was framed. There was also said to be “unexplained [foot] imprints” at the scene that didn’t match O.J.’s size 12 Bruno Maglis.

Who could this other guy have been that was with O.J.? Well, wasn’t his friend, fellow ex football player Al Cowlings, the one who drove him on that weird low speed chase in the Bronco that was all over television? Cowlings played high school football with O.J., though, so it wasn’t like he was a recent friend.

There was a guy called Christian Reichardt who testified on O.J.’s behalf that he spoke to him on the phone on the night of the murders and that he was calm and relaxed. Reichardt was the boyfriend of Nicole’s best friend Faye Resnick, and according to a Fox News article he was helping wean O.J. off steroids. (Steroid rage may have caused O.J. to freak out and murder his ex and her maybe-boyfriend.) Given that his name also starts with a “Ch,” it’s not so much of a stretch to assume that he could have been “Charlie.”

Ever-trustworthy National Enquirer has the story that O.J. Simpson’s longterm girlfriend got fed up with his jealous ways and dumped his ass, moving out of his house in Miami. He seemed to be pulling the same creepy stuff he did before he murdered Nicole. He was paranoid about her, thought she was cheating on him, and called up her friends to see where she was going whenever she left the house. He also thought he was being super cool by going out with another woman to make her jealous, even though he had no evidence that she was seeing anyone else:

Christie Prody, 31, O.J. Simpson’s lover for the past 10 years, walked out the day after Christmas, fed up with his suspicions that she was seeing other men.

“O.J. hasn’t been happy with anything lately,” an insider said. “Even though he got $2 million up front in his book deal, he lost $1.5 million when it was dropped.”

Sitting at home - fuming about his publisher pulling the plug on his tell-all book, “If I Did It” - O.J. turned on Christie. “If she left the house, he thought she was seeing another man. He was calling frinds asking if they’d seen Christie,” the insider said. “One of O.J.’s pals gave him the idea to make her jealous - go on a blind date.”

The buddy set up O.J. with a blonde and he took her to a Miami club. The plan backfired. “Christie didn’t care that he dated another woman, and she couldn’t take constant questioning on who she’s with,” said an insider.

After a furious fight, O.J. flew to Vail, Colorado, on Dec. 26 with his kids, and Christie moved out of his Miami home.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, January 15, 2007]

There was a story just a couple of weeks ago that O.J. was addicted to Oxycontin, which was making him paranoid and jealous.

What surprised me is that this chick has been with O.J. for ten years, which would mean that she was 21 when she started dating him. According to a report that came out 5 years after O.J.’s circus of a trial, she was a cocktail waitress when she met him and believed that O.J. was framed by police.

Prody doesn’t seem so innocent herself and O.J. just might have met his match in the ten years they dated on and off. In July, 2005 Police were called to a domestic disturbance incident at O.J.’s place where Prody was said to have attacked O.J. and a neighbor who was trying to jump start her car. About five years ago, she also apparently left her pet cat to die unfed in an apartment she failed to visit for a month. There are numerous other incidents involving Prody, O.J. and the police that don’t warrant retelling, but leave her looking abusive and unstable.

Prody’s mother said after one of their alleged fights that her daughter’s relationship with the old football star aquitted for murder “Seems more and more like a Nicole and O.J. relationship all the time.”

Not so much now that this one got away.