Simpson says he and alleged victim agree incident overblown

O.J. Simpson says he and one of the alleged victims of a robbery that's put new scrutiny on the former NFL star have spoken by telephone and agree the incident was blown out of proportion.

O.J. Simpson, seen at a 2002 boxing match, was questioned by Las Vegas police.

Simpson told CNN on Saturday that Alfred Beardsley had called him.

Beardsley confirmed the conversation to celebrity Web site TMZ.com, saying Simpson apologized to him and told him he regretted the incident.

Las Vegas police said they received a call Thursday evening from someone who reported that various sports-related items had been taken from him in a room at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino, and said Simpson was involved.

Simpson was questioned about the incident, but no arrests have been made.

Simpson told CNN's Ted Rowlands on Friday he had been tipped off that some of his personal items were for sale at the hotel, things he hadn't seen in years or that had been stolen. Watch a report on the latest developments in the probe »

Among those, he said, were photographs of his family and himself as a child and photographs and negatives taken by his ex-wife


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