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AP Exclusive: OJ Simpson says ‘Life is fine’ after prison

TIME FOR MOVEMENT AT 1 AM EDT MONDAY, JUNE 12      This photo provided by Didier J. Fabien shows O.J. Simpson in the garden of his Las Vegas-area home on Monday, June 3, 2019. 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. His most serious transgression came in 2007, however, when he and five others barged into a Las Vegas hotel room with guns and robbed memorabilia dealers of property that Simpson, now 71, said was his. Sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, he was paroled in 2017 and now lives quietly in Las Vegas where he says he plays golf nearly every day with a group of “retired guys.” (Didier J. Fabien via AP)
TIME FOR MOVEMENT AT 1 AM EDT MONDAY, JUNE 12 This photo provided by Didier J. Fabien shows O.J. Simpson in the garden of his Las Vegas-area home on Monday, June 3, 2019. 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. His most serious transgression came in 2007, however, when he and five others barged into a Las Vegas hotel room with guns and robbed memorabilia dealers of property that Simpson, now 71, said was his. Sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, he was paroled in 2017 and now lives quietly in Las Vegas where he says he plays golf nearly every day with a group of “retired guys.” (Didier J. Fabien via AP) TIME FOR MOVEMENT AT 1 AM EDT MONDAY, JUNE 12 This photo provided by Didier J. Fabien shows O.J. Simpson in the garden of his Las Vegas-area home on Monday, June 3, 2019. 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. His most serious transgression came in 2007, however, when he and five others barged into a Las Vegas hotel room with guns and robbed memorabilia dealers of property that Simpson, now 71, said was his. Sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, he was paroled in 2017 and now lives quietly in Las Vegas where he says he plays golf nearly every day with a group of “retired guys.” (Didier J. Fabien via AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Twenty-five years after the grisly killings that transformed him from Hall of Fame football hero to murder suspect, 71-year-old O.J. Simpson says he is happy and healthy living in Las Vegas, plays golf nearly every day and stays in touch with his children.

“Life is fine,” Simpson recently told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home.

He added that neither he nor his children want to talk about June 12, 1994, the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death. Simpson was ultimately acquitted of the crime in what came to be known as “The Trial of the Century.”

“We don’t need to go back and relive the worst day of our lives,” he said as Wednesday’s anniversary of the killings approached. “The subject of the moment is the subject I will never revisit again. My family and I have moved on to what we call the ‘no negative zone.’ We focus on the positives.”

Relatives of the two victims are disgusted Simpson is able to live the way he does while their loved ones had their lives cut short so tragically.