OJ Simpson's Estate Will 'Do Everything' To Ensure Victims Never Receive $33.5 Million Payout
O.J. Simpson's estate is not planning to pay the millions of dollars he owed the families of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
When he died Wednesday at age 76 following a battle with prostate cancer, Simpson had yet to pay most of the $33.5 million in damages a civil court awarded Brown Simpson's and Goldman's families in 1997.
While Simpson had been acquitted in 1995 of their murders, a civil jury later found that the NFL legend had "willingly and wrongfully" caused Brown Simpson's and Goldman's deaths.
But their families may have a long road ahead when it comes to pursuing the debt as Simpson's longtime lawyer is determined not to let his victims' families see any money from his estate.
"It's my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing. Them specifically," Malcolm LaVergne, who was appointed in his late client's will to oversee his estate, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing," LaVergne added.
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Court documents filed in 2022 showed that the Goldmans had received just $132,000 of the more than $33 million judgment, The New York Times reported.
Most of the amount came from the sales of a book by Simpson in which he described how he would have hypothetically murdered Brown Simpson and Goldman.
Simpson's book was initially scrapped but was later published by the Goldmans under the title, "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer," after a Florida bankruptcy court awarded its rights to the family.
Some of the profits from the book also went to Brown Simpson's family.
O.J. Simpson managed to get away with avoiding payments after denying having sources of income or properties, a California lawyer told the Times.
He received pensions worth $400,000 annually but Florida state law prevented the Goldman family from seizing it, according to the Times.
Simpson was estimated by Celebrity Net Worth to be worth $3 million at the time of his death.
The sum owed to the two families has since grown to $100 million due to interest.
David Cook, a lawyer for the Goldmans, said the family still wants to collect the money from Simpson's estate.
"We're going to work on that. There might be something out there," Cook said, according to the Daily Mail.
LaVergne said that the value of Simpson's estate has not yet been determined.
