{"id":125531,"date":"2020-01-28T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=125531"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:53:49","slug":"oj-simpson-defamation-case-vs-cosmopolitan-to-go-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/oj-simpson-defamation-case-vs-cosmopolitan-to-go-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"OJ Simpson Defamation Case Vs. Cosmopolitan to Go to Trial, Private Settlement Ruled Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

OJ Simpson\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> against The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will go to court, a pretrial commissioner ruled on Monday.<\/p>\n

\"OJ
OJ Simpson is unable to leave Nevada under the terms of his parole and is currently living in Las Vegas, where he is popular with selfie-seeking tourists. (Image: Andreas Branch\/Vanity Fair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simpson, 72, is suing the Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino for defamation after a report surfaced on celebrity gossip site TMZ<\/em> claiming the disgraced football star had been banned from the property for being \u201cdrunk and disruptive\u201d in November 2017.<\/p>\n

Simpson claims in his lawsuit that this was not the case. He alleges he was barred because of racial discrimination, and that false reports of drunkenness and aggression were concocted by Cosmo staff and leaked to TMZ<\/em> in order to \u201cdefame and embarrass\u201d him.<\/p>\n

TMZ<\/em> is not a defendant in the case<\/p>\n

Booze Test Negative <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Consuming alcohol to excess qualifies as a violation of Simpson\u2019s parole, which could see him returned to prison for up to 24 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Juice\u201d has been living in Las Vegas<\/a> since his release from prison a month before the Cosmopolitan incident. He served more than nine years of a maximum 33-year sentence for charges that included first-degree kidnapping and robbery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

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According to the lawsuit, Simpson took tests for drugs and alcohol at the Nevada Department of Parole and Probation the day after the alleged incident and was found not have violated the terms of his parole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Cosmopolitan had hoped the matter could be settled privately through arbitration, rather than going to trial. The hotel-casino\u2019s representatives did not respond to requests for comment on whether it would appeal the commissioner\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

\u2018Immoral\u2019 Argument<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cosmopolitan lawyers have argued that Simpson is essentially undefamable because his reputation was already tarnished before he was kicked out of the Cosmo.<\/p>\n

They cite his criminal and civil trials in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman — as well as his armed robbery conviction — to argue that reports he was \u201cwasted,\u201d \u201cdisruptive,\u201d or \u201cangry” could not amount to \u201ctangible damage to his reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simpson\u2019s lawyer, Malcom LaVergne, called this argument \u201cimmoral.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are they saying? Anyone can do anything and say anything against him?\u201d he asked, adding it was a \u201cslavery-segregation argument that Simpson doesn\u2019t deserve damages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LaVergne denied he was playing the \u201crace card.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims Simpson is a \u201cmodel\u201d parolee and citizen in Las Vegas, \u201cwhere he has received an extremely warm and positive reception by many.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simpson is seeking $30,000, plus punitive damages. The former NFL running back and Naked Gun<\/em> star still owes over $70 million to the families of Brown Simpson and Goldman, having been found responsible for their wrongful deaths in a 1997 civil trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OJ Simpson\u2019s lawsuit against The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will go to court, a pretrial commissioner ruled on Monday. Simpson, 72, is suing the Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino for defamation after a report surfaced on celebrity gossip site TMZ claiming the disgraced football star had been banned from the property for being \u201cdrunk and disruptive\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":125533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOJ Simpson Defamation Case Vs. 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