SIMPSON DENIES PRODY ASSAULT ACCUSATION

O.J. SIMPSON has vehemently denied his girlfriend's recent hospitalisation for "a severe head injury" is a result of physical abuse. According to a police report, Christie Prody was taken to an intensive care unit in Miami, Florida's Baptist Hospital on Monday (11Feb08) after hitting her head during a fall at a gasoline station. American tabloid the National Enquirer alleged on Thursday (14Feb08) a neurologist at the hospital where the 32-year-old is being treated has informed police her bruises and injuries are most often linked with an assault - not a fall. However, Yale Galanter, an attorney for Simpson - who was acquitted of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1995, but was found responsible for their deaths by a civil hearing - says his client has nothing to do with the injury and is not being investigated as a suspect by police.