SIMPSON USED ECSTASY, COCAINE, OHIO NEWSPAPER REPORTS

Incriminating Testimony Is Attributed To Dealers

TOLEDO, Ohio - Admitted drug dealers have told federal agents that former
football star O.J. Simpson went on cocaine binges and late- night drug buys
in Florida, The Blade newspaper reported Sunday.

Andrew Anderson, a dealer in an international narcotics ring who is
awaiting sentencing on drug charges, told investigators he stayed at
Simpson's suburban Miami home and supplied Simpson and his girlfriends with
ecstasy, according to confidential FBI documents obtained by the newspaper
for a copyrighted story.

'I Don't Do Drugs'

Informed of the Toledo story, Simpson said, "It's all untrue. I don't do
drugs. I don't sell drugs. I don't buy drugs.''

Simpson, speaking by telephone from his home, acknowledged he knew Anderson
"like I know a lot of other guys,'' but he said Anderson never stayed at
his guesthouse. The only people who have stayed there are a security man
and Simpson's oldest son, who has lived there several months, he said.

"It should be obvious to everyone that it's totally untrue or I would have
been arrested,'' Simpson said.

"I live a simple lifestyle. I raise my kids. I play golf. I don't do drugs,
and no drug dealer has ever stayed in my house.''

Simpson said his name came forward in the drug investigation because "it's
a nonstory if I'm not in it.''

Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, told The Blade his client was not
involved with drugs and never allowed Anderson to live at his home. He said
Simpson knew Anderson only because he visited a massage parlor Anderson owned.

Federal agents raided Simpson's house Dec. 4 as part of an investigation
into a drug ring that imported hundreds of thousands of ecstasy pills from
Holland. The ring also was tied to money laundering and satellite TV
equipment theft. Simpson was not charged in the raid.

A federal jury acquitted a Toledo developer, Mark Nowakowski, in March of
charges stemming from the raid. An FBI agent testified during Nowakowski's
trial that Anderson supplied ecstasy to Simpson. Galanter denied the
agent's allegation.

Anderson and co-defendant John Thorburn pleaded guilty in February to
charges in the case and face up to 20 years in prison.

Detectives Watched His Home In Kendall

The Blade reported that it examined more than 200 pages of documents,
including transcripts of FBI wiretaps and witness statements from late 1999
to November. About a dozen of those records related to Simpson, including
reports by detectives who watched the former NFL running back and actor's
ranch-style home in Kendall.

One of the wiretaps led to Nowakowski's arrest because an acquaintance in
Miami used his cellular telephone to make a drug deal, according to the
federal documents, which the Toledo developer obtained for his defense and
gave to the newspaper.

One of the drug ring's admitted dealers, Zenaida Galvez, told FBI agents
that Simpson and a former girlfriend knocked on her door at all hours
looking to buy cocaine, The Blade reported. Galvez said the two called her
so often for drugs that she changed her cellular telephone number.

Thorburn told agents he snorted cocaine with Simpson throughout the night
at a party this year. On another occasion, Simpson went to several strip
clubs in South Florida and snorted cocaine "the entire evening'' while out
with Galvez, Anderson and others, according to an FBI report.

Allegedly Used Coke To Celebrate Acquittal

Galvez also told the FBI that Simpson bought 2.5 grams of cocaine for $100
to celebrate his acquittal in October in a case in which he was accused of
grabbing a man's glasses and scratching his face during a traffic argument.

Simpson moved to Florida from California with his two children after a
civil jury ordered him to pay $33.5 million for the 1994 slayings of his
ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los
Angeles. A jury had acquitted him of criminal charges in the slayings.