LAS VEGAS (AP) – OJ Simpson and a hotel casino in Las Vegas have ended a lawsuit alleging that unnamed employees defamed Simpson by announcing to a news website in November 2017 that he had property was banned because he was drunk and disruptive.
Simpson’s attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, declined to comment Thursday on the deal reached with Nevada Property 1 LLC, a corporate owner of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
“The case has been resolved,” LaVergne said.
A Cosmopolitan spokesman declined to comment immediately.
Lawyers for the corporation argued that the former football star could not be ashamed because his reputation had already been tarnished by his criminal and civil trials in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles decades ago and his conviction and imprisonment in Nevada, Nevada . an armed robbery case from 2007.
LaVergne raised the idea of racial prejudice by hotel officials.
The conditions were not disclosed in the dismissal of the court that was filed on March 31 in Clark County District Court. It said both parties agreed to bear their own legal costs and fees.
Simpson, now 73, is on parole in Nevada and lives in a golf course community after his release from prison in July 2017. He served nine years for armed robbery, kidnapping and assault with a weapon.
His complaint against the Cosmopolitan admitted that Simpson, after spending several hours with two friends in a steakhouse and a living room, gave notice that he was prohibited from returning to the property. He said he was never given a reason.
Simpson denied in his lawsuit that he was “belligerent”, broke glass or damaged property.
LaVergne said at the time that his client’s reputation had been damaged by bills cited in a TMZ report, that Simpson was ‘drunk and disruptive’ at a bar.
TMZ was not a defendant in the case.
Simpson was jailed after being convicted in Las Vegas in October 2008 of leading five men, including two with guns, in a bad confrontation with two dealers and an intermediary in a cramped room in a foreign casino -hotel. .
Simpson has always insisted he try to retrieve personal souvenirs he stole after his 1995 acquittal in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles.
He said family photos and other articles disappeared before he was found liable in civil court in February 1997 and that he had to pay $ 33.5 million to the Brown and Goldman estates.