OJ Simpson: what happens next?

Now that OJ Simpson has been granted parole and told that he will be freed from prison in October, the next question is: what next for America's fallen hero?

Linda Deutsch, a former Special Correspondent for The Associated Press, who covered his original murder trial, has a few ideas.

"I think he will move to Florida, he has a close friend there that I think is arranging his lodgings; he doesn't have his house there any more.

"I understand he lost it while he was inside but his daughter Arnelle is there and it's a place he likes; he has friends there. Whether they're still there or not, I don't know after nine years."

Simpson, now 70, was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in the so-called "trial of the century" in 1995. 

Thirteen years later, he was convicted of armed robbery following a heist at a Las Vegas hotel, and sentenced to 33 years in jail.

On Thursday, he was granted parole after serving more than eight years of that sentence.

"Everybody is still interested in this guy," says Deutsch.

"He was ours, he was our hero and he belonged to America and I think America still feels a kinship with him in some way."