Even after his death, people are still making wild claims about O.J. Simpson, including a wild allegation from his bodyguard that he has a tape of the controversial NFL Hall of Famer confessing to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
In a search warrant obtained by TMZ, Minnesota police claimed they seized a backpack from Iroc Avelli, Simpson’s former bodyguard, in an investigation separate from the Simpson and Goldman murders. Aveli claims that a thumb drive in the backpack includes a recording of the former Buffalo Bills running back admitting to the 1994 double murder.
Minnesota authorities were led to the former bodyguard because they got a call from an LAPD detective who suggested that Avelli and his attorney told authorities that inside the backpack was a drive that included the O.J. confession.
According to TMZ, Minnesota police obtained a new search warrant to locate the thumb drive. However, when authorities accessed the drive, they found nothing close to a recording of O.J. or anyone confessing to the infamous 1994 double murder. In fact, the audio appears to be of Avelli talking to himself, according to the New York Post.
In a statement, the LAPD said, “The City of Bloomington, Minnesota Police Department examined the drives in question and determined they contained nothing of evidentiary value. The LAPD has never listened to, or been in possession of, these drives.”
Although Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, many still believe he was responsible for their deaths nearly three decades later.
In 1997, two years after the criminal trial, Goldman’s father filed a civil suit against the former running back, and the jury found that O.J. was responsible for the deaths. Although it didn’t result in any prison time for the NFL great, the Goldman family was awarded millions of dollars in damages.
In June 2022, Ron’s father, Fred Goldman, applied for a renewal of his old judgment against the former NFL star running back. He did this in an attempt to receive the entire payment from the 1997 judgment, claiming that interest has continued to accrue and is much higher than the original amount he was ordered to pay.