Los Angeles: Disgraced American football star O J Simpson, whose racially charged 1995 murder trial riveted the nation, was released from jail on parole early Sunday after nine years behind bars for armed robbery.
Simpson, 70, left the Lovelock Correctional Center in the western state of Nevada just after midnight Saturday, prison spokesperson Brooke Keast said. "I don't know where he was headed," Keast told.
She said she did not know who met Simpson upon his release and didn't know where Simpson was immediately headed in his first hours of freedom. "We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident," Keast added.
Simpson told the parole board earlier this year that he wanted to live in Florida, where his daughter Sydney lives. The Florida Department of Corrections said officials had not received a transfer request or required documents.
