Simpson's trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center, Sept.

Prosecution witness Michael McClinton testifies during the O.J. Simpson called over his friend, Charlie Ehrlich, a Miami club promoter who was also in town for Scotto’s wedding.Įhrlich told “20/20” Simpson turned to him and said, “These two individuals who I did business with have my merchandise… that used to belong to me… I need someone that I could trust to go up there or go and see what it is.” Riccio agreed to meet Simpson at his hotel, the Palms, on Sept. Why don’t we show the world that I have to go by myself to get my stuff back?” Riccio said Simpson told him, “Everyone thinks nothing bad happens to me. Edgar Hoover said he was a big fan, a fine young man.' My football that I was holding in my arm when I rushed for 2,000 yards, the ring from my wife who died that I was going to give to my daughter.’ He kept talking about a photo signed by J. These are personal artifacts that were stolen from me. said, ‘Look Tom, this is not memorabilia.

Riccio then called Simpson and told him two memorabilia dealers, Beardsley and Bruce Fromong, were claiming to have some of his old items. I have all the stuff from O.J.’s trophy room.’” Made in America.” “He’s a six-foot-six, 300-pound, O.J. “I got a call, it was Al Beardsley,” Tom Riccio said in the ESPN Films documentary, “O.J. Simpson had learned from Tom Riccio, the co-owner of the auction house Universal Rarities, that some of his lost sports memorabilia was also in Vegas. “He was more excited for me to get married than I was,” Scotto told ABC News “20/20.” “My wedding was a four-day event. Simpson was in Vegas in September 2007 to be the best man in a wedding for his friend, Tom Scotto. The trophy was later sold at auction for more than $250,000 in 1999. As a result, Simpson was evicted from his Brentwood, California, mansion after reportedly defaulting on the mortgage, and he was forced to turn over many of his personal belongings, including sports memorabilia, his 1968 Heisman trophy and golf clubs. Simpson has always maintained he did not kill Goldman and Brown. In 1997, however, Simpson lost a wrongful death civil suit that was brought against him by the Goldman and Brown families, and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.

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