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Just over a month since he was released from a Nevada prison, O.J. Simpson is back in the headlines, and not for good reason.
TMZ reported on Thursday that Simpson was thrown out of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas early Thursday morning after causing a drunken disturbance.
Hotel staff reportedly told TMZ that at around midnight, an inebriated Simpson became disruptive at the Clique bar. Apparently, glasses at the bar broke because of the former NFL star’s behavior, prompting his removal by hotel security.
He was then banned from the hotel.
“We're told Simpson was nice to responding security guards,” writes the gossip site.
His lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, has called the story about Simpson being belligerent completely "false."
He said that Simpson received a trespass notice from the Cosmopolitan on Wednesday and that the hotel did ban Simpson, but gave no reason for the ban because the hotel does not discuss its guests.
He also said that Simpson contacted his parole officer on Thursday and underwent drug and alcohol tests, which both came out negative, the Associated Press reports.
LaVergne is challenging anyone with proof to come forward:
If you have a video of this incident, of anyone at the Cosmopolitan … put your videos out there and show where he was at any time belligerent, breaking glasses… [Simpson] says every bit of it’s false.
Simpson was released from jail last month after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence for a Las Vegas armed robbery in 2007. He was granted parole upon his release and it’s unclear if the incident at the hotel, if true, will affect his parole.
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