A Nevada prison official says OJ Simpson, the former football legend and Hollywood star, has been released from a Nevada prison in Lovelock after serving nine years for armed robbery.
Unlike when he walked free after his murder trial in 1995, Simpson faces parole supervision for another five years.
Nevada state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told reporters that Simpson, 70, was released early on Sunday at 12:08am local time to avoid media attention.
She said she did not know who met Simpson upon his release and didn't know where Simpson was immediately headed in his first hours of freedom.
"We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident," Keast added.
Simpson was looking forward to reuniting with his family, eating a steak and some seafood and moving back to Florida, his lawyer said recently.
Simpson also planned to get an iPhone and get reacquainted with technology that was in its infancy when he was sent to prison in 2008.
Simpson told the parole board earlier this year that he wanted to live in Florida, where his daughter Sydney lives. The Florida Department of Corrections said officials had not received a transfer request or required documents.
He also told the court in July he was not interested in media appearances, and had turned down multiple interview offers while in prison. However, given his notoriety and the promise of huge sums from US networks, publishers and magazines, he may well change his mind now he's been released.
Simpson was sent to prison in Nevada for a botched hotel-room heist of sports memorabilia 12 years after he was acquitted of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles.
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