OJ Simpson confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson on tape, ex-bodyguard claims — but cops say they have no evidence

OJ Simpson allegedly confessed on tape to killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, his former bodyguard has claimed — but cops say they have no evidence to back up that any such recording exists.

The so-called confession was apparently said to be on a thumb drive that cops in Bloomington, Minn., seized from Simpson’s ex-bodyguard, Iroc Avelli, when he was arrested in an unrelated incident back in 2022, TMZ reported .

Police started investigating after Avelli told them the purported confession was on the device earlier this year — just two months after Simpson died in Las Vegas in April .

Avelli had allegedly claimed that the recording also featured Simpson implicating an unknown third party in the 1994 double murder.

Working off Avelli’s tip, a judge granted cops a new search warrant to examine the thumb drive in June.

Police were then able to access the drive but found no such confession on the tapes, law enforcement sources told the outlet.

The sources added that Simpson wasn’t even featured on the recordings – and it was just Avelli talking to himself.

The drive, which is apparently still in police possession, was among a handful of similar devices and ammunition found inside Avelli’s green backpack at the time of his arrest.

Avelli and his lawyers have been filing legal papers in a bid to get his belongings back, the source said.

Simpson was charged with the horrific slashing murders of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles in 1994.

The once-beloved NFL superstar was acquitted a year later following a blockbuster trial.

Despite avoiding jail for murder, a separate civil trial jury later found him liable in 1997 for the deaths.

Simpson died at his Las Vegas home in April, aged 76, following a prostate cancer battle.