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| Ex-American football star OJ Simpson has been arrested by Las Vegas police investigating an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel room. | Ex-American football star OJ Simpson has been arrested by Las Vegas police investigating an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel room. |
| The incident occurred at the Palace Station Casino late on Thursday. | The incident occurred at the Palace Station Casino late on Thursday. |
| Police went to the hotel room after a man thought to be a memorabilia dealer reported being robbed by five people, one of whom he said was OJ Simpson. | Police went to the hotel room after a man thought to be a memorabilia dealer reported being robbed by five people, one of whom he said was OJ Simpson. |
| Mr Simpson said that he and others had gone to the hotel to retrieve items that belonged to him. | |
| During questioning on Thursday, he told police there had been no break-in and that no guns had been involved. | |
| Mr Simpson was released without charge, but was taken into custody again on Sunday. | |
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| Mr Simpson was tried and acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on 12 June 1994. | |
| Mr Simpson was later found liable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5m (£17m) in damages - money that has never been collected. | |
| In July, the rights to Mr Simpson's book If I Did It were awarded to Mr Goldman's family to help cover the judgement. | |
| The book, in which Mr Simpson describes how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend, was published in the US on Thursday by Beaufort Books. | |
| The publication followed months of legal wrangling after Rupert Murdoch's companies cancelled plans to publish the book following a public outcry last year. |