Witness claims have revived alternative theory in the OJ Simpson case

Sources told us that during OJ’s “Trial of the Century,” in which the NFL star was acquitted of the double murder, we were looking for information about two suspicious men we had seen parked in a luxury black Mercedes 500 SL outside the Mezzaluna Restaurant the night Nicole and Goldman were murdered.

Insiders add that pressing questions still need to be answered, including who the alleged assassins were who stalked Nicole or Goldman.

They also said it remains questionable whether Nicole or Goldman, who had a habit of “treating their friends with the best cocaine care available,” were killed by an LA drug gang because they say she cheated in a cocaine deal.

One witness told our sources that Nicole and Goldman were in fact partners in a drug dealing ring, acting as a go-between between Los Angeles’ toughest street gangs and the party in Beverly Hills.

And they exposed the way Nicole financed her own heavy cocaine habit with the profits she and Goldman made from their illegal business.

Even as the drug began to destroy her once striking features, Nicole used more and more of it and began to falter on payments.

The witness claimed Nicole even desperately offered top gang members sex in lieu of money – which they refused.

An insider said: “Soon, Nicole and Goldman fell victim to the deadly law of the streets: ‘Pay or die.'”

A friend revealed: ‘I know how desperate Nicole was at the time. She owed the drug gangs many thousands of dollars, but she simply didn’t have the money to pay them.

‘You don’t agree on a loan repayment arrangement with these guys. If you don’t give them every cent you owe, they’ll kill you. It is that simple and that final.’

According to the witnesses, Nicole and Goldman initially made good profits from the drugs.

Nicole used Goldman to distribute cocaine to the smart swingers who frequented the bars and restaurants he knew so well.

This scheme gave Nicole easy access to the cocaine she craved, in quantities too expensive even for a woman of her station.

But as more and more coke passed through her own nose, less and less of it reached her customers – and payments to the street drug lords dwindled.

“A lot of people knew OJ was innocent,” says Nicole’s friend. “But most of them stayed quiet because of their own involvement in the drug scene.”

“Three of them have information that they can now report to the law and tell them what they know.”

Nicole, 35, and Goldman, 25, were stabbed to death in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994. After a nationwide low-speed police chase in a white Ford Bronco, the beauty’s ex-husband OJ was arrested.

In October 1995, after an eight-month, highly publicized trial, a jury acquitted him of the murders.

But in a 1997 civil trial, a jury found “The Juice” liable for the wrongful deaths of Brown and Goldman.

He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to their families, although much of this debt remains largely unsatisfied.

In September 2007, OJ led a group of men into a Las Vegas hotel room to steal sports memorabilia that he claimed was rightfully his.

He was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in 2008 and sentenced to a maximum of 33 years in prison.

OJ served nine years at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada before being released on parole in 2017.

He spent his remaining years in Florida and Nevada before passing away.