O.J. Simpson’s executor says he will fight any attempt to collect on a wrongful death judgment

O.J. Simpson’s executor says he will fight any attempt to collect on a wrongful death judgment
FILE – In this Oct. 3, 1995, file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. stand with him. Cochran, Simpsons flamboyant lead attorney, died of brain cancer in 2005 at 68. His refrain to jurors that If it doesnt fit, you must acquit sought to underscore that the bloody gloves found at Simpsons home and the crime scene were too small for football legend when he tried them on in court. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
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O.J. Simpson’s executor says he will fight any attempt to collect on a wrongful death judgment

Doug Smith April 13, 2024

The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate has vowed to fight any attempt to collect the more than $30-million wrongful death judgment won by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

Its my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing, attorney Malcolm LaVergne told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday. Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.

LaVergne, Simpson’s longtime lawyer, was named executor of a trust created in January to hold all of the former college and NFL star’s property, according to the Review-Journal. Simpson died Wednesday of prostate cancer.

LaVergne, who did not return a call to his office on Saturday by the Times, told the Review-Journal that he specifically wants the Goldman family to get nothing in part because of their actions involving Simpsons planned book, If I Did It.

A federal bankruptcy judge gave the rights to the book to Goldmans family in 2007. It was later published with the subtitle Confessions of the Killer. Forbes reported Saturday that the book had reached the top of two of Amazons bestseller lists days after Simpsons death.

Simpson had paid only a small fraction of the 1997 judgment

,

which has grown to more

more

than $114 million with interest

,

according to Goldman family lawyer David Cook.

Simpson was charged with killing Goldman and his Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. But he was acquitted in 1995 in a drama-filled and widely broadcast

criminal

trial that enthralled the nation.

The Brown and Goldman families then brought a civil suit against Simpson. In 1997, a jury in Santa Monica found him liable for the deaths, and he was ordered to pay the families more than $30 million in damages. Simpson responded by giving up his Brentwood estate and moving to Florida, in large part to evade paying the civil judgment.

Goldman’s family members responded to Simpson’s death as “a mixed bag of complicated emotions” on Thursday.

“For three decades we tirelessly pursued justice for Ron and Nicole, and despite a civil judgment and his confession in If I Did It, the hope for true accountability has ended, Rons sister Kim Goldman and father, Fred Goldman, wrote in a joint statement.

Cook, their attorney, said that Simpson died without penance.

The Associated Press reported Saturday that the will lists Simpson’s four children and notes that any beneficiary who seeks to challenge provisions of the will shall receive, free of trust, one dollar ($1.00) and no more in lieu of any claimed interest in this will or its assets.

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