The man who called the police was California collector Alfred Beardsley, who has been accumulating Simpson memorabilia since the 1980s. Reached in Las Vegas on Friday, a nervous Beardsley was tight-lipped. “I’m really not at liberty to discuss it,” he told NEWSWEEK. But he did discuss it with someone: Cook, who says Beardsley told him about the incident and claimed that some of the men had guns. A few months ago, Cook says, Beardsley approached Goldman’s camp to discuss the possible sale of the green-gray suit that Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted of murder. But they turned Beardsley down because they couldn’t determine who actually owned the item. Beardsley told NEWSWEEK that the suit was not among the items in the Vegas hotel room, but he declined to say exactly what O.J. did leave with. We’ll all find out soon enough.
