OJ Simpson estate will not pay victims’ families
OJ SIMPSON died on April 10 aged 76 from prostate cancer nearly 30 years after he was acquitted of the double-murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and 25-year-old Ron Goldman.
Gossip has spread online that he used his last breaths to admit to their murders.
But a source has now told TMZ the talk is “totally false”, adding that “nothing about the LA thing came up or was even thought about”.
The “LA thing” was the knife killings of Nicole and Ron in 1994 at her house in Los Angeles.
Simpson was acquitted of their murders after his 11-month “Trial of the Century”, with his “Dream Team” of nine top attorneys.
He was found liable for Nicole and Ron’s deaths in a civil case brought by the families of the victims, with Simpson being ordered to pay $33 million (about R629 million) in compensation – which he never paid.
Malcolm LaVergne, who is handling Simpson’s estate, said the former football star will be cremated and there are no immediate plans for a public memorial. Simpson’s four surviving children are the only beneficiaries of his assets. Regarding the claims
from Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman’s family, the estate is said to oppose any claims.
Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, said the issue was never about the money, but about holding Simpson responsible. He said last week that with Simpson’s death, “the hope for true accountability has ended”.
Simpson made well-wishers and his children sign non-disclosure agreements and leave their cellphones at the door when they came to pay their respects to him as he lay dying of cancer in a Las Vegas hospice.
Among those forced to sign NDAs were his children Jason and Arnelle, who he fathered with his first wife Marguerite Whitley, and the kids he had with Nicole – Sydney, 38, and Justin, 35.