O.J. Simpson isn’t sweating the prison life. Nor is he sweating the fact that a knife reportedly was discovered years ago at his former estate, raising questions about the unsolved murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
Jeffrey Felix, a former guard and Simpson’s self-proclaimed best friend, revealed recently in an interview with ABC News that the former NFL running back, who is serving a 33-year sentence in a Nevada prison for numerous felonies, is living rather nicely behind bars.
“O.J. Simpson is not suffering in prison,” Felix said, according to the Daily Mail. “He’s eating well. He’s exercising well. He’s got a flat-screen TV.”
Simpson’s living arrangement, while interesting, isn’t huge news. It is what it is. The real revelation in Felix’s interview was that Simpson seemingly couldn’t care less about the ongoing knife drama, which began earlier this month when TMZ reported that a folding buck knife was found buried on the perimeter of Simpson’s former mansion several years ago and that it was being tested by the Los Angeles Police Department in a top secret investigation.
“O.J. thinks the knife thing is a complete joke and he wants to know why it was held on to for 18 years before it was turned in,” Felix said, relaying a message he received from a source inside the prison.
The details of the knife discovery are strange — read all about it here — and it might not even matter, as the knife is “inconsistent” to the 1994 murders, sources recently told NBC News. Plus, Simpson was acquitted in the case and therefore can’t be retried due to double jeopardy.
But that doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye to the whole situation, especially with Simpson reportedly taking such a lighthearted approach to the matter.
According to Felix, Simpson has been joking, “If the knife is rusted, I can’t be busted.” That, of course, is a spin on the “If (the glove) doesn’t fit, you must acquit” line dropped by Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, in the 1994-95 murder trial.
