Lawyer says O.J. plans to remain in Vegas
Has not filed paperwork to move to another state
O.J. Simpson’s lawyer said the former football star isn’t planning to move from Las Vegas to Florida like he told state parole officials before he was released in October from a Nevada state prison.
Attorney Malcolm Lavergne said Thursday the 70-year-old Simpson, who is on probation after serving a nine-year term for armed robbery, is playing lots of golf and has not filed paperwork to move to a different state.
“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.”
A Nevada state parole and probation officer handling Simpson’s case did not respond to messages, and Florida prisons spokeswoman Ashley Cook said her agency has not received documents from Simpson seeking interstate custody.
Simpson has been spotted in public several times during the more than three months he has been living in a friend’s five-bedroom home in a gated and guard-patrolled community several miles from the Strip.
He drew a crowd of selfie-seekers Jan. 7 at a Las Vegas bar and pizza shop during an NFL playoff game featuring one of his former teams, the Buffalo Bills.
An outing in November to a steakhouse and a lounge at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is in dispute, after officials ordered Simpson off the Strip property and prohibited him from returning.
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 the Palace Station hotel-casino.
Simpson insisted he only wanted to retrieve personal mementos and items stolen from him after his acquittal in Los Angeles in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
Simpson was found liable for the killings in 1997 and ordered by a California civil court jury to pay
$33.5 million to the victims’ families.