While O.J. Simpson isn’t worried that the knife supposedly found on his property last week will bring any new heat over the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, he “is a little worried” the blade might make him look bad — to a parole board!
The fallen football legend is cooling his heels in a Nevada prison, serving 9-33 years on an unrelated 2008 kidnapping and robbery arrest in Las Vegas — but he’s up for parole in November 2017, and he’s afraid the knife could sway the parole board into keeping him locked up.
“[Simpson] is a little worried because if it’s one of his pocket knives and if it’s got his blood on it, that could make him look bad when he’s up for parole,” the Juice’s former manager, Norman Pardo, told People magazine. “That’s really his only fear.”
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Still, Norman said Simpson isn’t losing any sleep over the weapon.
“Everybody I’ve spoken with says he’s just ignoring it. He’s not talking about it,” Norman said. “When he heard the news on TV, all he did was shake his head as if to say, ‘Will this ever end?’ He’s definitely shrugging it off and pretty much saying, ‘I’m not going to worry about it.’ ”
The LAPD claims the buck knife was found on Simpson’s Brentwood estate around 1998. A construction worker allegedly gave the weapon to a retired traffic cop — who kept it as a souvenir for years before turning it in to police.
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“Personally, I think it belonged to a construction worker and fell out of his pocket,” Norman said. “Honestly, I don’t think it pertains to anything.”
Nevertheless, the knife is being examined for blood, fingerprints and any other possible forensic evidence.
Simpson is immune from being tried again in the slayings of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman because he was acquitted at trial in 1995.
