O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend calls gun, slay raps pulp fiction
O.J. Simpson’s buddies may be cutting deals and running, but his Nicole Brown look-alike girlfriend shows no sign of abandoning him.
“Oh, no, no, no, I’m with O.J.,” Christie Prody told a would-be suitor shortly before Simpson was hauled off to jail in handcuffs.
Spilling out of a floral print dress, the buxom blond said Simpson’s arrest for armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges put a “total damper on our vacation in Vegas.”
“O.J. doesn’t own a gun,” said Prody, 32. “Ridiculous. … It’s been a very stressful week.”
Prody, who said she’s been with Simpson for more than a decade, didn’t split after the former NFL star went to the slammer.
She was expected to attend Simpson’s bail hearing today - and was killing time with his daughter Arnelle.
“O.J.’s fine and that’s all I can say,” Arnelle Simpson said.
Simpson and Prody hooked up after he was acquitted in 1995 of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman a year earlier.
A North Dakota native and would-be beautician who has worked as a cocktail waitress, Prody lived in Los Angeles less than a mile from the grisly murder scene from 1996 to 1999, records show. It wasn’t clear whether Prody met Simpson in L.A. or in Miami, where they both now live at separate addresses.
Her mother says Prody firmly believes Simpson is no killer.
“He has convinced her that he didn’t do it,” Kathy Bellmore, 54, told People magazine. “I told her ‘DNA doesn’t lie.’ She says, ‘They planted the blood.’”
Bellmore, who lives in Port Richey, Fla., declined to elaborate when a Daily News reporter called yesterday.
For all her apparent loyalty, Prody and Simpson have had a rocky relationship. From 1999 to 2001, police responded four times to reported domestic disturbances between them.
Prody also has some minor brushes with the law, including arrests for misdemeanor pot and drug paraphernalia possession, and for parking in a handicapped spot, Dade County records show.