O.J. DIED LAUGHING AT THE LAW
O.J. SIMPSON was one of the greatest football players ever when it came to dodging tacklers, and off the field, he was too damn good at eluding paying for his biggest and most horrifying crimes.
The former NFL running back and lying creep died at 76 of prostate cancer April 10, never paying — in jail time or money — for the savage knife slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her 25-year-old friend Ron Goldman.
Thanks to his crafty legal Dream Team and cops’ blundering attempts to frame him, O.J. was acquitted of the gruesome murders at his Trial of the Century on Oct. 3, 1995.
But the fork-tongued fiend was found responsible for their deaths at a civil trial two years later and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ devastated families.
By the time he died, the unpaid amount had soared with interest to $114 million because the remorseless creep had avoided paying.
The Goldman family’s lawyer David Cook says over the 26 years from the judgment to his death, O.J. repaid $133,000 — or a measly $5,000 a year.
Heck, a fender bender costs more than that to repair.
“He died without penance,” Cook says. “He did not want to give a dime, a nickel to [Ron’s dad] Fred, never, anything, never.”
Meanwhile, sources say the creep lived high on the hog off money he made by failing to report sales of memorabilia and from his NFL pension. He’s estimated to have squirreled away a whopping $15 million.
Ironically, while many believe he committed one of the bloodiest double homicides in modern U.S. history, he finally served nine years in the slammer for the armed robbery and kidnapping of two memorabilia dealers in Nevada.
But nine years compared to life without parole for murder is a slap on the wrist. This savage killer was able to live well — and die free — while laughing at the law. He doesn’t deserve tears.