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Justin Timberlake said he has made up with Janet Jackson after the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show at the 2004 Super Bowl.
When asked on a Beats 1 radio interview broadcast Thursday if he and Jackson have since made peace, Timberlake said, “Absolutely.” The singer — who’s slated to headline the halftime show again at this year’s Feb. 4 NFL title game and Timberlake who is preparing for the release of his fourth solo album — said he and Jackson have talked privately about the incident. “I don’t know that a lot of people know that,” Timberlake added. “I mean, I don’t think it’s my job to do that, because you value the relationships that you do have with people.” During the 2004 halftime show, Timberlake ripped Jackson’s costume to reveal her right breast, bare except for a nipple ring. Jackson was barred a week later from the Grammy telecast. The scandalous moment sparked a hullabaloo at the time, with some people speculating the incident was a publicity stunt while others believed it was an accident. Timberlake said the incident came up when the NFL selected him to return for a second Super Bowl performance. “To be honest, it wasn’t too much of a conversation,” he said. “It’s just one of those things where you go, like, ‘Yeah, what do you want me to say? We’re not going to do that again!’”
Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson is not planning to move from Nevada to Florida as he told state parole officials before he was released in October from Nevada state prison, his Las Vegas lawyer said Thursday. Simpson, 70, who was acquitted of murder but convicted of a separate armed robbery, has yet to file paperwork with parole officials to move to a different state, attorney Malcolm Simpson LaVergne said. “Mr. Simpson has no immediate plans to return to Florida,” LaVergne said. “He’s very much enjoying his time here in Vegas. It’s January, he gets to play golf every day.” Simpson has been living in a friend’s five-bedroom home in a gated and guard-patrolled community several miles from the Las Vegas Strip. He was released to parole Oct. 1 after nine years in prison for leading five men, including two with guns, in a September 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers at a Las Vegas casino hotel. While acquitted in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, Simpson was found liable in a civil suit for the killings in 1997 and ordered by a California civil court jury to pay $33.5 million to victims’ families — an amount that, with interest, has grown to nearly $71 million. LaVergne said Simpson has no income beyond what he termed a modest NFL pension and has no intention of paying the Goldman judgment.