SIMP-ATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Guess who wants O.J. free – his victims
Even O.J.’s victims say, “Cut The Juice loose!”
“He’s [already] done” enough time, Bruce Fromong, one of two memorabilia sellers robbed by disgraced grid great O.J. Simpson, told The Post.
A relative of Simpson’s other victim, the late Al Beardsley, said his kin would have gone one step further — and been at the prison gates with bells on to greet a freed Simpson.
Simpson, convicted in 2008 of robbing the two sports-memorabilia dealers, faces a Nevada parole board Thursday.
“I think [Beardsley] would pick him up at jail,” the relative said.
Fromong and Beardsley were waiting in Room 1203 of the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas on Sept. 13, 2007, believing they were meeting with a mystery buyer who wanted their Simpson memorabilia, when the robbery went down.
Simpson and two gun-wielding pals suddenly burst through the door, demanding back what The Juice said was his stuff.
The Heisman Trophy winner was sentenced to between nine and 33 years for the crime.
But while Fromong supports O.J.’s upcoming parole bid, he said the former football star was dead wrong about the memorabilia.
“The big misconception here is that this was [Simpson’s] stuff. This was not O.J.’s. None of this stuff was O.J.’s stuff. It belonged to me,” Fromong said.
If a four-member parole board approves Simpson’s parole petition, the former Buffalo Bills NFL great could walk out of Lovelock Correctional Center, about 100 miles northeast of Reno, as soon as Oct. 1.
If his parole is shot down, it could take another three years for him to appear before the board again.
Simpson, 70, is best known for beating a double-murder rap in the June 12, 1994, slayings of his exwife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal Ron Goldman. He was found liable for the murders at a subsequent civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families of the victims.
Fromong said that in terms of the robbery, he only ever wanted O.J. to ever do between one and three years in prison.
Until his dying day, Beardsley was even more supportive of Simpson, basking in the notoriety of being O.J.’s victim, the relative said.
“How could he be famous if he didn’t like O.J.?” said the relative of Beardsley, an Albany native who died in November 2015.
The star witness in Simpson’s murder trial will provide a live analysis of his parole hearing, according to a report.
Mark Fuhrman — the former Los Angeles Police Department detective who found the nowiconic bloody glove at the scene — will provide commentary on the highly anticipated proceeding for Fox News, the Hollywood Reporter said.