O.J. Simpson's dreams of freedom have turned into a Florida fantasy, reveal friends.
The troubled football legend says he has one clear New Year wish: To start a fresh life with his two young children - and his golf clubs - in the Sunshine State.
Simpson, 48, is already telling friends and business advisers that he will quit life in fast-paced Los Angeles "when I'm proved innocent" of the double murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her waiter friend Ronald Goldman.
A close pal of Nicole tells STAR: "O.J. has wanted to live in Florida for years.
"He once took Nicole there and tried to sell her on the place. He told her, 'We should move here as a family. It would be paradise for the kids.'
"She was not at all impressed. 'Live there... with all those old fossils. You must be joking,' she told him.
Star Magazine
January 3 1995