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Associated Press

OJ Simpson is a free man.
The 74-year-old former football hero and actor, acquitted California murder defendant and convicted Las Vegas armed robber was granted good behaviour credits and discharged from parole effective December 1, Nevada State Police spokeswoman Kim Yoko Smith said Tuesday.
“Mr Simpson is a completely free man now,” said Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s lawyer in Las Vegas.
Simpson declined an immediate interview, LaVergne said, and the lawyer declined to talk about Simpson’s future plans, including whether he intends to remain in Nevada.

Simpson had told parole officials before his October 1, 2017, release from prison that he planned to move to Florida.
He instead moved to a gated community in Las Vegas, where he plays golf and frequently takes to Twitter to offer opinions about college and pro sports, especially football.
“Life is fine,” he told Associated Press during a June 2019 interview.
Simpson’s saga makes him, in the words of one of his Las Vegas trial lawyers, one of the most famous people on the planet.
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He grew up in public housing in San Francisco, attended the University of Southern California and won the Heisman Trophy as college football’s best player in 1968. He became an NFL Hall of Famer and the first running back to gain 2,000 yards (1,829 metres) in a season with the Buffalo Bills in 1973.
He acted in films and served as a rent-a-car company pitchman and a football commentator.
In what became known as “The Trial of the Century”, he was acquitted in 1995 of the double slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
The trial was the focus of gavel-to-gavel television coverage, with Simpson represented by a legal “Dream Team” that included the late Johnnie Cochran Jnr and F. Lee Bailey.

In a separate case more than a decade later, Simpson was convicted by a jury in Las Vegas and sentenced to prison for leading five men, including two with guns, in a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a cramped room at an off-strip Las Vegas casino hotel.
Simpson insisted he only wanted to retrieve personal mementoes and items stolen from him following his acquittal in the double killings.
He had been found liable for the deaths in 1997 by a California civil court jury that ordered him to pay US$33.5 million to victims’ families.
Simpson served nine years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery.
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His original parole discharge date was September 29, 2022. By last summer, that date had been moved up for good behaviour to February 9. The Nevada Board of Parole majority that ultimately granted his early discharge after a November 30 hearing cut his term by about three more months for good behaviour.
While on parole, in 2019, Simpson sued a Las Vegas Strip resort that banned him two years earlier. He alleged unnamed employees defamed him by telling a celebrity news site he had been drunk, disruptive and unruly.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas argued Simpson could not be defamed because his reputation was already tarnished by his criminal and civil trials, and by his conviction and imprisonment in Nevada. The two sides reached a March 31 out-of-court settlement for terms that neither disclosed.
LaVergne said in June that Simpson also would continue to fight court orders that he owes at least US$60 million in judgments stemming from the 1994 killings.


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OJ Simpson a ‘completely free man’ after early parole release

Former football star OJ Simpson appears via video for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Centre in Nevada in July 2017. Photo: The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP

Former football star OJ Simpson reacts after learning he was granted parole in Nevada in July 2017. Photo: The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP

Famed defence lawyer F. Lee Bailey poses in his office in Yarmouth, Maine, in May 2014. Photo: AP

F. Lee Bailey, O.J. Simpson’s lawyer in ‘trial of the century’, dies at 87

O.J. Simpson and defence lawyer F. Lee Bailey (left) consult each other during the murder trial in Los Angeles in June 1995. Photo: AP

Patricia Hearst, heiress to the Hearst publishing fortune, gives an interview on CNN's Larry King Live January 31, 2001 in New York City. The interview was the first Hearst has made since being fully pardoned by former U.S. President Bill Clinton after her 1974 conviction on bank robbery charges following her kidnapping by the radical terrorist group the Sybionese Liberation Army. Hearst served nearly two years of her seven-year sentence and was released from jail by then president Jimmy Carter. REUTERS/Mike Segar

FILE - In this May 22, 2014, file photo, famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey poses in his office in Yarmouth, Maine. Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague confirmed Thursday, June 3, 2021. He was 87. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

‘Life is fine’ 25 years after murders of ex-wife and friend, says former suspect O.J. Simpson

O.J. Simpson in the garden of his Las Vegas home on June 3. Photo: AP

Kim Goldman poses for a portrait Friday, June 7, 2019, in Los Angeles. Goldman has continued to make the case publicly that it was O.J. Simpson who killed her brother and Simpson's ex-wife on a June night in 1994. Beginning Wednesday, Goldman will examine the case in a 10-episode podcast, "Confronting: OJ Simpson." She'll interview her brother's old friends, the police detective who investigated the killings, attorneys for the defense and prosecution, and two of the 12 jurors who voted to acquit Simpson. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

FILE - In this June 16, 1994, file photo, O.J. Simpson, center, daughter Sydney and son Justin arrive at a private funeral for his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her LA home. Investigators quickly focused their attention on the former football great, leading to the slow-speed chase that was carried live on national television and, later, the “Trial of the Century,” which ended in Simpson’s acquittal. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)

FILE--O.J. Simpson and his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, celebrate the opening of the Harley-Davidson Cafe in this October 19, 1993 file photo. Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ronald Goldman were killed in June 1994. A year after the words Not guilty echoed in one courtroom, O.J. Simpson s wrongful death case convenes this week in a new venue with a slightly diminished press corps forced to tell the story the old-fashioned way _ without cameras. (AP Photo/Paul Hurschmann)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995, file image made from video, murder victim Ron Goldman's sister Kim buries her face in her hands and weeps as her father Fred, center, holds her in disbelief as the jury returns the not-guilty verdict for O.J. Simpson in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. These days Kim Goldman counsels troubled teens as executive director of a Southern California-based nonprofit, The Youth Project, and is a speaker to victims' rights group. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995, file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. stand with him. Cochran, Simpson's flamboyant lead attorney, died of brain cancer in 2005 at 68. His refrain to jurors that "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" sought to underscore that the bloody gloves found at Simpson’s home and the crime scene were too small for football legend when he tried them on in court. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

FILE - In this July 20, 2017, file photo, former NFL football star O.J. Simpson reacts after learning he was granted parole at Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev. Simpson got into a series of minor legal scrapes following his 1995 acquittal of murder charges in the deaths of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)

A white Ford Bronco, driven by Al Cowlings and carrying O.J. Simpson, is trailed by Los Angeles police cars on a motorway in Los Angeles on June 17, 1994. Photo: AP

OJ Simpson released from prison nine years after botched Las Vegas robbery

Former football legend OJ Simpson became a free man again Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel-room heist in Las Vegas. Photo: Nevada Department of Corrections

Lovelock Correctional Center Facility, where O.J. Simpson has served his sentence.

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The former football star had been convicted for armed robbery more than a decade after he was acquitted of murder in the high-profile ‘Trial of the Century’
Simpson, 74, spent nine years in prison for the crime before being out on parole and eventually got an early discharge for good behaviour



The former football star had been convicted for armed robbery more than a decade after he was acquitted of murder in the high-profile ‘Trial of the Century’.


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OJ Simpson a ‘completely free man’ after early parole release

The former football star had been convicted for armed robbery more than a decade after he was acquitted of murder in the high-profile ‘Trial of the Century’ Simpson, 74, spent nine years in prison for the crime before being out on parole and eventually got an early discharge for good behaviour

The former football star had been convicted for armed robbery more than a decade after he was acquitted of murder in the high-profile ‘Trial of the Century’

Simpson, 74, spent nine years in prison for the crime before being out on parole and eventually got an early discharge for good behaviour