God, this is good:
One of the collectors was Bruce Fromong of North Las Vegas, a former Simpson business partner who had hoped to sell some memorabilia that included items signed by Simpson and other sports stars such as Joe Montana.
He said he expected a potential buyer to walk into the Palace Station hotel room when Simpson and several other men entered instead. One of the men stuck a gun in his face, but Fromong instead stared at Simpson.
"I kept looking at O.J. thinking, 'How stupid can you be, Juice?'" Fromong said. "If I was going to do something like that, I'd be sitting out in the parking lot and letting my guys take care of it. How stupid can you be. ... You've got enough trouble. You're O.J. Simpson, for God's sake."
Simpson left with more than $75,000 in sports memorabilia, Fromong said.
Simpson told The Associated Press that he took the memorabilia, but only because it had been stolen from him.
"We didn't break into any room. There was no armed robbery," the 60-year-old Heisman Trophy winner said. "Nobody was roughed up. What I can't understand is these guys are in a room trying to fence stolen goods, and I'm the story."
But a source close to the investigation said Simpson's entourage was armed and took the memorabilia by force.
"We do believe a robbery occurred, and O.J. was part of it," the source said. "He went there with goons who were armed."
Stay tuned for the sequel to If I Did It.
