Posted on 07/31/2005 10:13:03 AM PDT by jaydubya2
Spokesman Says Celebrities Need Prior Approval To Sign Autographs
POSTED: 9:20 am CDT July 31, 2005 UPDATED: 9:58 am CDT July 31, 2005
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Organizers for the National Sports Collectors Convention asked former football star O.J. Simpson to leave the event in suburban Rosemont after showing up to sign autographs.
Simpson and the exhibitor that invited him were asked to leave Saturday because neither had sought permission to attend the event, said convention spokesman Bob Ibach.
Celebrities must receive prior approval to sign autographs at the show, he said.
Exhibitor Justin Communications had invited Simpson to sign memorabilia, officials said. When officials discovered Simpson was in attendance, security escorted him from the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center without incident.
Simpson was acquitted of murder after the 1994 stabbing deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. A civil jury in 1997 held Simpson liable for the killings and ordered him to pay the victims' survivors $33.5 million. Much of that judgment remains unpaid.
Justin Communications officials could not be reached for comment. Ibach would provide no other information.
The annual convention features more than 700 exhibitors and 125 sports figures including University of Illinois basketball coach Bruce Weber.
I wonder if he was looking for Nicole's killer there....
I just love an old fashioned "shunning".
Just looking for the real autograph signing sports celebrity...
Good for the NSCC.
He's probably just trying to raise money to pay that $33 mill civil suit.
Git 'er done!
What I like is that someone trying to make a buck from him was booted. This means he didn't make one either. If they didn't go through the proper channels, they were idiots.
Guess OJ was there looking to steal another satellite TV signal ...
LOL
not if you ask him though LOL
:-)
He's gotta pay for that digital satellite TV somehow!
my gosh, its not like he killed someone.
Was O.J. kicked out because he was wearing those "ugly ass" Bruno Magli shoes?
I wonder if any of the jurors have ever had second thoughts?
Figured he might as well take a stab at it.
He may have been paid up front.
Yeah, that had occured to me as well. Hopefully they can get their shekels back.
LA County and the State of California got one bite of the apple, and they blew it back in 1995. Nothing prevents the Federal government from prosecuting him on conspiracy to murder charges or for after the fact coordination and destruction of evidence (calling AC Cowlings from his cell phone in the limo, using the air phone on the plane to Chicago, etc.)
The failure of the justice system in California to hold this man responsible for crimes he clearly committed is a festering wound. To understand why the Clinton administration did not ask the Justice Department to investigate and consider Federal charges see George Stephanopoulos' memoir of his White House days. In it he describes the scene at the White House as the O.J. criminal verdict came down. He, President Clinton and Jamie Gorelick (then at Justice as Deputy AG) were watching the television coverage - and Gorelick, according to Stephanopoulos, had a press release in hand, ready to read to the White House press if O.J. was convicted. It would have announced a Justice Department investigation into the LAPD and alleged civil rights violations in LAPD practices. That contingent offering was prepared in case O.J. was convicted and riots occurred. They never needed to read the statement after his acquittal. But they never looked at the other side of the issue - the gross violation of the civil rights of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
To my knowledge there is no statute of limitations on the prosecution of a Federal conspiracy to commit murder charge. When will US DOJ get going on this?
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