O.J. Simpson allegedly hired a Gambino family thug to kill his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, according to the owner of a Los Angeles collection agency, a confession he made last week to a longtime Hollywood private investigator. is.
According to lead researcher Paul Barresi, John Dunton has maintained that he had remained silent until now due to fear of retribution from the Mafia, but that Simpson had ordered the beating of his spouse and was present at the scene of the murder on the day of the murder. He claimed to have been there.
Simpson, who died of cancer on Thursday at the age of 76, was on trial for the brutal murders of Nicole, 35, and her friend Ron Goldman, 25, on June 12, 1994. . Nicole was stabbed seven times in his neck and scalp. She was found in a pool of her blood and she had almost been decapitated. Simpson was ultimately and infamously acquitted.
Baresi played a recording of a recent conversation with Danton, now 62, to the Post.
In the conversation, Dunton carefully claimed that he learned of Simpson’s whereabouts on the night of the murder from “someone in his circle.” The person clearly traveled in the same circles as Simpson.
According to the recording, Danton was vague about who gave him the information.
He declined to comment Saturday, referring to the call to Baresi.
Baresi told the newspaper that he first contacted Dunton about the headline-grabbing murder 30 years ago, but last week decided to go to trial again, and this time Dunton agreed to speak. he said.
Dunton claimed the killing was a mob attack.
“100 percent,” Danton can be heard saying on the recording. “The four people who came were members of the Gambino family. They were involved in all sorts of things. You know what the mob does. The bottom line is that everything was done at the direction of O.J. That’s what happened.”
Dunton claimed that Simpson also came to see it.
“He was there,” Danton insisted to Baresi. “I don’t know what he did, but he was there. He knew they were going to Nicole’s house to kill her. He wanted to be there. . I don’t know why. Honestly, I’m glad he’s dead. What he did was really terrible and I went through hell because of it.”
The Post was unable to independently verify Dunton’s claims.
Dunton told Barresi that he tipped off what he learned to police on condition of anonymity because he was friendly with them.
Instead, Danton was called to testify what he knew to a grand jury investigating O.J.’s friend Al Cowling, but when he refused, the judge sent Danton to prison for contempt.
Dunton’s former lawyer, Robert Lenzer, 84, told the Post that Dunton was only released after 23 days in custody after convincing a judge that he would never speak.
Lenzer said he had never heard anything about Nicole Brown Simpson being attacked by a mob, but noted that Dunton was afraid of something.
“There must have been a reason why Mr. Danton didn’t want to testify,” Lenzer said.
Mr. Dunton told Mr. Barresi that he was visited by Gambino operatives who forced him to his knees, put a gun to his mouth and threatened his family.
“The man who put the gun in my mouth had hit so many people that if he hit me, that wouldn’t change anything. He said he would also hit my family.” I was scared when they pushed me down onto my knees, crossed my ankles, and put a gun in my mouth.”
Dunton said the gangster who threatened him is still alive and refuses to give his name.
Mr. Barresi said he did not know how the gang learned that Mr. Dunton had information about his alleged involvement with the gang.
In September 1994, Time magazine reported that Dunton had secondhand information about three people who may have been in Nicole Brown Simpson’s apartment the night she was killed. They also reported that Danton had been “convicted twice for forgery and was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial in another case.”
