Editor’s note: This is the fourth part of an ongoing series of stories based on a seven-month WorldNetDaily investigation into the events surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. The investigation includes exclusive interviews, conducted in person and by telephone, with key witness Bill Wasz, now serving time in a high-security prison for other crimes.
He says he was offered $15,000 to put a bullet in the head of Nicole Brown
Simpson, but Bill Wasz had never killed anyone, and he didn’t want to start. He says he just wanted the money.
He knew his days as a free man in Los Angeles were numbered. Police were following him frequently as he went to and from night clubs selling cocaine. When he met with his parole officer, he discovered that information from his file was missing, most likely because he was being investigated by some other officer.
The signs were all around him that he needed to move on, but Wasz needed money to get out of town. A lot of money.
Wasz had just earned a quick $1,000 by taking pictures of Nicole and football star Marcus Allen in a compromising situation. He received that assignment, he says, from Robert Kardashian, long-time friend of O.J. Simpson. Wasz calls Kardashian “Skunk Man,” because of his distinctive streak of gray hair.
Within days he was called again. Previous assignments were given by phone, but this time, according to Wasz, Kardashian wanted him to come to his home on Mandalay Drive in Encino. He said he wanted to have a lengthy discussion.
As he drove to Kardashian’s home, Wasz planned to double his fee for
what he thought would be a similar assignment to follow Nicole again.
Kardashian opened the door when Wasz arrived and invited him in and
offered a drink. Although Kardashian does not drink or use drugs, he
does not hesitate to offer both to his guests and business associates, according to Wasz.
Kardashian brought Wasz a gin and tonic and allegedly began a long recitation about what a problem Nicole was for he and O.J.
“He began telling me stories that I really didn’t want to hear,” Wasz recalled. “He told me how he leased this home from some Russian mobster named Sigelov, and how they were close personal friends and business associates.” He went into a lot of detail about mob involvements.
“He went on to tell me about the various companies he owned with O.J. and how they used these companies to ‘wash assets.’ He told how they ran a very successful sports betting ring and used O.J. as point man to the players, who were known to shave points in their favor from time to time,” Wasz recalled.
As Kardashian reportedly gave a detailed description of his illegal activities, Wasz found himself wondering why he was being told so much. This was not the discussion he was expecting, but he concluded that he didn’t really care. He knew if he were patient Kardashian would get to the part where Wasz could make some money.
Before long, the discussion came around to the surveillance that Wasz had performed for Kardashian the week before. He was grateful for the pictures, but upset by what they revealed. He told Wasz that he and O.J. were very hurt by Nicole’s actions.
Kardashian became emotional about the way he spoke of Nicole, and for the first time Wasz said he realized it was very personal. He could see that Kardashian and Nicole had once had an affair.
“He told me that Nicole was costing O.J. $35,000 a month,” explained Wasz. “And that she was sleeping with all these other men just to hurt O.J. She was also threatening to use her knowledge of their businesses to get them. She was a major deficit, and such a deficit as to have O.J. so distressed that he was becoming one (a deficit) as well over these facts.”
The long-time friendship of O.J. and Kardashian had been on the rocks for some time. Although the two had been close friends for about 25 years, they now had very little interaction with each other. Kardashian blamed Nicole for all the problems, and saw her as a threat to the future.
“Bill, I want you to make her go away,” Wasz claims Kardashian told him. “And we’ll pay you 15 grand in cash for doing it,” he added, with the implication that O.J. knew about the offer.
This was not the assignment Wasz expected. He was not a hitman for
hire, and didn’t want to be. All he wanted was some money.
At first, he thought Kardashian was just speaking in anger without
really meaning it, but then Wasz says he offered him a gun and showed him the cash.
“Then I knew he was serious,” said Wasz. The sight of the money convinced him that he had to figure out a way to steal it.
“The 15 grand would be nice,” said Wasz in an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview. ” I could use it to split from California and go home. Which was my immediate thought, but whacking someone just wasn’t something I was into. So I quickly thought about how I could finagle the cash out of this dude without having to do something like that. So I inquired on exactly how he wanted it done.”
“We have a plan,” Kardashian supposedly told Wasz, but Wasz did not ask who planned this with him, or who he meant by “we.”
The plan involved stealing a vehicle owned by O.J.’s girlfriend, Paula Barbieri. Wasz says Kardashian tried to hand him a gun he had in his desk. Wasz refused. He said he knew where to get a gun that did not have the risk of a bad history already attached to it.
Kardashian was angry, and tried again to get Wasz to take the gun, but he refused and Kardashian backed off.
“He went on to say that this was to be done after O.J. and Nicole came back from their vacation in Florida, around February 8,” explained Wasz. “O.J. would be immediately flying out that night or the next, and that was when they wanted it done — when he was on the airplane.
Wasz says Kardashian spelled out the exact details of everything to be done — how and where to steal the truck, how to get in the Simpson home, how to shoot her, where to dump the truck and the gun, and how to collect the money.
“I quickly thought of how I could make this work for me. I knew that I would never shoot some girl in the head, but yet I saw some cash to be had,” said Wasz. He even thought that if he burned Kardashian it might be sufficient to scare him away from trying it again.
“I’d be out there with extensive knowledge as to what they were up to, and it would be insane to whack someone after that,” explained Wasz of his reasoning. ” Or so I thought. Who was to know that the cops and prosecution would end up being their (Kardashian and O.J.) best allies. Simply because they wanted to promote a cause and themselves.
“They knew what happened about two weeks after the murder,” he claimed.
How did they know?
“Because they came to see me,” he responded. The police, district attorney, and prosecutors all interviewed Wasz and saw the evidence gathered to support his claims. That evidence was never used and has been hidden away in police files ever since.
WorldNetDaily now has much of that evidence.
Wasz quickly made a deal which enabled him to get half the money after successfully stealing Barbieri’s truck. He tried to find a way to get the rest of the money as well, but Kardashian would not pay the rest until the deed was done.
Why such a low price for the hit?
“Back then they were not famous in the least. This was not a big deal,” said Wasz.
What was the benefit to O.J. and Kardashian?
“He said their plan was to capitalize from the travesty that was to occur, and all the while get rid of their ‘deficit.’ What better than to have the world’s sympathy for O.J., thus reviving a career that was almost non-existent at that point.
“I mean, even though O.J. had some well-off ventures, he was beginning to feel the beginning of the end. His ventures were such to the point that he probably had to enter into deals with Kardashian and his friends. Most of the younger generation simply did not know who he was — besides the ‘Hertz Car Dude.’
“Plain and simple, you can’t ride that wave forever and he knew it. And to top it all off, he was paying out 35K a month in alimony and child support to a girl who slept with his friends. So imagine being in his position,” explained Wasz.
They parted with an agreement. Wasz would wait for a call within a few days, and then steal Barbieri’s Toyota 4×4 and a gun. Kardashian would then pay him $7,500 as a down payment.
“As I walked out of his house I felt like I was about to make a major score off this arrogant bastard,” said Wasz. It was then that he began thinking about Kardashian’s claims of ties to the Russian mob.
“Then I sort of began to think of exactly why they would propose that I off her, and not one of their criminal associates in the Russian mob,” said Wasz. “Those guys are quite brutal and would have, no doubt, done her with pleasure.”
It was then that he realized something about the offer was not right, and later he would learn his suspicions were correct. He was not hired to be a hitman. He was hired to be a patsy.
The theft of the Barbieri truck, and the crime spree that followed, brought to an end the criminal activities of Bill Wasz. A man who now says his life is in danger as he sits in prison. He believes he is in danger from corrupt police and prosecutors who do not want his story exposed.
Wasz believes that by telling his story and becoming well known, he has a chance to survive. He has asked the public to send Christmas cards, which he can display on his cell wall. It will be a visual display that he is not forgotten, and there are many on the outside who will notice if anything happens to him. His prison address is at the end of each article in this continuing series.
David M. Bresnahan, a contributing editor for WorldNetDaily.com, is the author of “Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception,” and offers a monthly newsletter “Talk USA Investigative Reports.”
He may be reached through email and also maintains a website.
Wasz welcomes the opportunity to respond to letters from the public. He asks those who write to provide paper, and a self-addressed stamped envelope for reply. Bill Wasz #H-64450, D-2 143, P.O. Box 5002, Calipatria, CA 92233-5002.
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