OJ Simpson’s children ‘made to sign NDAs’ as he lay close to death

OJ Simpson’s children were made to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in the days leading up to his death, it has been claimed. According to the celebrity website TMZ, NDAs were required of his entire family, including two children, Sydney (38) and Justin (35), he had with Nicole Brown Simpson.

Nicole was Simpson’s ex-wife who he was accused of murdering, along with her friend Ron Goldman, in June 1994. He was acquitted in the “trial of the century” a year later.

TMZ reported Simpson’s family had been warned of his approaching death, described to relatives as a “transition”, a week before and that 30 to 50 people visited him in his last days.

It is not clear what the alleged NDA covered, but it may explain why the death of the 76-year-old, who had prostate cancer, came as a surprise to those outside his circle of immediate family and friends.

The death of the NFL great and double-murder suspect sparked international media coverage and a renewed focus on his murder trial, in which prosecutors famously failed to conclusively tie a bloody glove found at the crime scene to him.

In a since-corrected obituary, the LA Times erroneously reported it was Donald Trump, not Simpson, who was released from prison in 2017 after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence for his part in a sports memorabilia heist.

“Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Centre outside Reno, a free man for the first time in nine years,” the obituary originally read.

The mistake, later described as a “typographical error” in an editor’s note, triggered accusations of purposeful wishful-thinking. Historian Michael Beschloss posted on X: “Freud lives.”

The White House’s reaction to Simpson’s death also raised eyebrows. Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, told reporters: “Our thoughts are with his families during this difficult time, obviously with his family and loved ones.”

“I know they have asked for some privacy and so we’re going to respect that. I’ll just leave it there.”

She made no mention of Nicole Brown Simpson or Ron Goldman.

Meanwhile, the families of Simpson’s alleged victims have vowed to seek damages after his death.

Simpson, who died in Las Vegas on

Wednesday, was acquitted in 1995 of the double murder. He was found liable for the pair’s deaths in a civil proceeding two years later and ordered to pay $33.5m to the victims’ families.

However, the American football star managed to avoid ever paying significant damages, with the Goldman estate only receiving around $123,000 so far.

Following the announcement of Simpson’s death, David Cook, an attorney for Mr Goldman’s father Fred, vowed to go after Simpson’s estate for unpaid compensation, estimating the amount the family could be owed, with interest, could total more than $100m (€93m).

“He died without penance,” he said. “We don’t know what he has, where it is, or who is in control. We will pick up where we are and keep going with it.”

Simpson, whose net worth before he died is believed to have been between $250,000 and $3m, is thought to have been able to avoid paying his debt by keeping much of his money in pensions and other protected annuities.

“The first [step] is to unearth the records and testimony of the family members to ensure that the source of the equity to acquire the real property is free of any taint,” Mr Cook said.

“Simpson had assets coming in, we know that. There could well be money coming in from the [NFL] football people; maybe there’s significant amounts in pension.

“Is there money to be had? Hopefully. Do I know exactly what it is? No, but we’ll figure that out soon. Ron Goldman is gone, murdered. We have to fight on for him.”

Reacting to the news of Simpson’s death, Mr Goldman said it was “a reminder that Ron and Nicole were murdered by him”.

Ron Goldman’s sister Kim added that Simpson’s death means “the hope for true accountability has ended”.

Simpson and Brown were married for seven years after the pair met while Brown was working as a waiter in Beverly Hills.

On June012, 1994, Brown and Goldman were returning home from dinner when the two were brutally stabbed to death outside Brown’s home in Brentwood,

California. The knife was never found, but police discovered a bloody glove at the scene.

With previous allegations of abuse, Simpson became the prime suspect in the case, but he failed to hand himself in to face the murder charges, leading to a warrant being issued for his arrest.

He was eventually detained and charged with double murder after a two-hour police-car chase through the streets of southern California, which was broadcast live and watched by nearly 100 million people.

Simpson maintained his innocence throughout his trial.

The families of his alleged victims later seized the rights to his memoir to prevent the American football player from profiting from it.

In 2008, Simpson was convicted of 12 counts of armed robbery and involvement in the kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel.