A former bodyguard for O.J. Simpson claims the late Pro Football Hall of Famer confessed to killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman on tape, though police have refuted the existence of such evidence, TMZ reports.

Iroc Avelli told police that the alleged confession was included on a thumb drive seized from his house during his own arrest for an unrelated incident in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 2022. The Los Angeles Police Department said Bloomington Police examined the thumb drive and determined that it didn't even include Simpson, rather was just Avelli talking to himself.

"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." the department said in a statement to TMZ.

Simpson was found "not guilty" for the deaths of Brown and Goldman in his highly publicized 1995 trial, despite being later unanimously found liable in a civil trial for the wrongful death of and battery against Goldman and battery against Brown two years later. In June, the FBI publicly released nearly 1,000 pages of documents related to the murder investigation.

Simpson's 1995 murder trial and 2008 prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping have overshadowed a Hall of Fame football and acting post-retirement acting careers, which he has unsuccessfully attempted to restore though his social media presence, launching his X account just over a year after being released from jail on parole. Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison with the possibility of (granted) parole after nine years on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery.

Simpson's official cause of death was determined to be prostate cancer, his longtime attorney, Malcolm LaVergne revealed to TMZ Sports on April 26. LaVergne, the executor of Simpson's estate, said he received the former NFL MVP's death certificate and confirmed that the previously unspecified cancer diagnosis was of the prostate form. Simpson's family revealed his death in a statement shared on his X account on April 11.

Mike McConnell