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Report: Former NFL star bragged to Bellagio security that former girlfriend wouldn’t press charges in alleged beating

Updated Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 | 5:21 p.m.

The 32-year-old, 5-foot-3, 120-pound Maryland woman woke up early Friday in the hallway of the Bellagio hotel, clothed only in her underwear and a see-through blouse. Her face and torso showed the marks of a beating and she had bruises on her neck, indicating she had been strangled. Crying, she knocked on multiple doors on the 10th floor of the hotel until someone called security. Later in Friday’s early morning hours, Bellagio security detained Larry Johnson, a 32-year-old, 6-foot-2, 220-pound former NFL star running back while his ex-girlfriend iced her bruises and spoke with Metro Police. The details of what ...

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  1. These thugs give athletes a bad image. If he's guilty, the stiffer the sentence received the better. Unfortunately they can also afford to buy their way out via high priced legal teams.

  2. And Johnson has been arrested how many times on domestic abuse charges and other assault charges? He needs anger management classes!

  3. What a loser! He is such a zero these days, having fallen so far. He is a menace to society. If he moves to a violent country like honduras, el salvador, or mexico, he would feel right at home.

  4. Another one of Penn State's finest....

  5. ... LOL!?! Another-OJ?!? HOPE-not-FROM Bflo., NY, where-OJ-was ASSAULTING-his-WIFE when he was making NFL records! THIS according TO an African-American police officer source in the Bflo. PD!!!

  6. He'll continue to do this to the woman who chase him and take this abuse because they are as trashy as he is.

  7. Throw this piece of garbage in jail & get it over with.

  8. how many times has he done this in vegas and kansas city he was a real hit in the clubs out here in vegas . just ask the folks at tryst and xs

  9. Another rich NFL thug. He'll continue to get away with abusing women just like OJ did. Typical. What is wrong with these women that they make such horrible choices for boyfriends?

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