The owner of a posh Louisville steakhouse asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant the night before the Kentucky Derby because he is sickened by the attention Simpson still attracts.

“I didn’t want to serve him because of my convictions of what he’s done to those families,” Jeff Ruby said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “The way he continues to torture the lives of those families … with his behavior, attitude and conduct.”

Jack who owns restaurants in Cincinnati, Louisville and Belterra, Indiana. He says OJ, who was in town for the Derby on Saturday, came in with a group of around twelve other people on Friday night and was seated at a table in the back. A customer came up to Ruby and was “giddy” about seeing the NFL Hall of Famer, Ruby said.

“I didn’t want that experience in my restaurant,” Ruby said, later adding that seeing Simpson get so much attention “makes me sick to my stomach.”

He said he went to Simpson’s table and said, “I’m not serving you.” Ruby said when Simpson didn’t respond, he repeated himself and left the room.

Ruby said OJ soon came up to him and said he understood and would gather the rest of his party to leave.

“It was the first time since 1994 he has ever shown any class,” Ruby said. “He showed it that night in the restaurant” by leaving quietly.

He said he has received about 100 positive e-mails since the incident.

The walls of Ruby’s restaurants are decorated with celebrity photos. A photo of OJ and Ruby used to be on display, but he says he took it down after the 1994 killings of OJ’s ex-wife Nicole and local waiter Ron Goldman.

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