O.J. Simpson’s Former Agent Mike Gilbert Makes Startling Revelation on ‘O.J.: Made in America’

During the fifth and final episode of ESPN’s OJ: Made In America, O.J. Simpson‘s former agent Mike Gilbert reiterated a startling accusation against the former football player, saying that Simpson nearly confessed the June 12, 1994 murder of his wife Nicole Brown. According to Gilbert, he told him mere weeks after his trial that “if [Nicole] wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife, she’d still be alive.”

Gilbert explained that the pair were hanging out together, drinking beer and smoking pot, when Simpson made the almost-confession.

“He was looking around the backyard, reliving all the different events that had happened there,” the Daily Mail reports Gilbert as saying on the show. “And I just asked him, ‘What happened June 12?’

“And he asked me what I thought happened,” Gilbert continued. “And I said: ‘I always thought you probably did it.’

He added, “I said: ‘I know what you told AC [Al Cowlings], that you went there but you just went to see what was going on, you didn’t take a knife.’”

Gilbert alleges that that was the moment Simpson made his almost-confession, saying, “He shook his head and he said: ‘Yeah.’ And he said: ‘If she wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife she’d probably still be alive.’”

Gilbert later revealed that he does not believe what Simpson said, as he feels Nicole’s murder was premeditated and that Simpson killed her due to his jealousy over the fact that she had began dating Marcus Allen — a football protégé of Simpson’s.

“I believed that for the longest time, and then I … he went there to kill her,” Gilbert said. “He went there to kill her because of how she made him feel, being rejected. That she didn’t need him.”

Gilbert also made the same allegations back in 2008, and further wrote about the moment in his book, How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse.

Simpson was unable to respond at the time due to his robbery trial, but Simpson’s lawyer Yale Galanter denied that the conversation took place to ESPN. “I’ve talked to O.J. about it,” Galanter said in 2008. “This stuff not only didn’t occur but it’s not factually supported by the evidence.” Gilbert and Simpson are no longer friends.

Article compiled by Hannah Barnes of our sister company Womanista.