LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former O.J. Simpson crony says the former
football star confessed to killing his ex-wife.
Memorabilia dealer Mike Gilbert says Simpson was groggy and high
on marijuana and beer at the time.
Gilbert, who profited from Simpson for years, has written a
tell-all book in which he also claims to have suggested how Simpson
could bloat his hands so they wouldn't fit the notorious bloody
gloves shown at his trial.
Gilbert's book is called, "How I Helped O.J. Get Away With
Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and
Remorse." It's due in stores tomorrow.
Simpson is a Miami resident.
In the book, Gilbert writes that Simpson confessed several weeks
after the trial that acquited him. He says Simpson told him his ex
wife had the knife in her hand when he knocked on her door the
night of June 12, 1994. Gilbert says Simpson told him that, "If
she hadn't opened that door with a knife in her hand, she'd still
be alive."
Simpson's current lawyer, Yale Galanter, says none of what
Gilbert says is true. He calls him "a delusional drug addict who
needs money."