
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 2, 1995                   TAG: 9511020102
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

BARBIERI SAYS SHE'S THROUGH WITH SIMPSON

Paula Barbieri stayed celibate and waited for O.J. Simpson during his murder trial, but now the relationship is over, she said in an ABC interview that aired Wednesday.

When Simpson called her from a cellular phone on his way home after his Oct. 3 acquittal, she still had faith that they could be together, Barbieri told ``PrimeTime Live.'' But Simpson later suggested they pose for pictures together and get paid for it.

``Rather than a quiet, `Let's get back to who you and I are, and let's get to know each other again on a different level,' ... it was a realization for me that he was going to that lifestyle. He was going to live there in that lifestyle that he used to have,'' Barbieri said.

``It's a lesson, it's just a lesson,'' she said in a transcript released to the The Associated Press. ``It makes things clear.''

Barbieri, 28, refused to say how she told Simpson their three-year relationship was over: ``I think that's really private.''

Barbieri said she never doubted Simpson's innocence, and she would have left him if he had ever hit her. Simpson pleaded no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery against Nicole Simpson in 1989.

- Associated Press

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