O.J. Simpson thinks the rusty buck knife found on his former Brentwood estate has nothing to do with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
“O.J. has a saying,” retired prison guard Jeffrey Felix, who befriended Simpson in Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center, told me. “ ‘If the knife is rusted, I can’t be busted.’”
It’s a play on his lawyer Johnnie Cochran’s famous line, “If [the glove] doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
“He thinks it’s a total joke,” Felix — author of “Guarding the Juice,” in bookstores next Wednesday — said. “O.J. is laughing about it. He’s on top of his game. He’s like Muhammad Ali.”
“He says almost every construction worker carries one of those folding knives. Anyone could have dropped it.”
Felix, who knew him for seven years, reveals in his book that Simpson, doing time for armed robbery, gets special treatment behind bars.
All inmates, and guards, too, must wear ID cards on their pockets — except Simpson.
“When O.J. was first in the system, two guards were fired for making an extra ID card and taking it home,” Felix said. An official O.J. ID card is presumably valuable as a collectible.
Simpson is the only inmate who doesn’t have an ID card.
Felix said Simpson — eligible for parole next year — has been a model prisoner for eight years. “All he thinks about is parole,” Felix said.