O.J. Simpson’s estate attorney says he is preparing to fight against the payments owed in his civil judgment won by the families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.
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On Wednesday (April 10), former NFL star O.J. Simpson died at age 76 after a battle with prostate cancer. Simpson’s family broke the news on social media.
Taking to the former pro football star’s official account on X (formerly Twitter), the Simpson Family wrote, “On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace.”
Following the death of O.J. Simpson, the family of Ron Goldman broke their silence, and not only did his father, Fred Goldman, tell PEOPLE how Simpson’s death only caused him to think about how long Ron and Nicole have been gone, but a lawyer for the family also spoke out.
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The Goldmans’ attorney, Dave Cook, told TMZ that “O.J. died without penance,” meaning he passed away without confessing any sins. He also noted that despite Simpson passing away, he still owes a large portion of a multi-million-dollar judgment awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and 25-year-old waiter Ron Goldman. Before O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in 1997, the victims’ families sued him for being liable for their deaths.
In 1996, the two victims’ families were awarded a $33.5 million judgment but were ultimately only received a fraction of that before Simpson’s death. He reportedly only paid $123,000 of the balance and still owed about $114 million, including interest. Subsequently, the Goldman Family is seeking further legal action to get the money and/or assets that Simpson may have left behind so that they can collect the remaining funds owed.
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Since the attorney for Ron Goldman’s family spoke out, it was then learned that O.J. Simpson allegedly “ran a ring of all-cash business deals” to hide judgment money owed to Goldman and Nicole Brown’s families.
Sources for Page Six claimed that Simpson made a decent living after his 2017 release from prison, stemming from his 2008 conviction for armed robbery related to a dispute over sports memorabilia. Despite this, he reportedly paid the Brown and Goldman families hardly anything as he was allegedly operating on an all-cash deal regime.
Simpson reportedly earned his money by booking private autograph signings, podcast appearances, and even by having people pay him to golf with them. For all of these business dealings, Simpson allegedly demanded that those requiring his presence or services would pay him in cold, hard cash.
Page Six reported that their source told them, “He would sign anything except anything that had to do with the trial or murder. The stipulation was always that he had to be paid in cash. With being paid everything in cash, there was no way to document how much money he had access to.”
Despite the reports of O.J. Simpson allegedly hiding money, Ron Goldman’s family is up for the fight to battle things out in court — and so is the estate attorney for Simpson.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, O.J. Simpson’s will lists his estate executor as his longtime attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, who is ready to fight back against the Goldman family’s civil suit petitions. LaVergne reportedly claims he’s focused on keeping his late client’s money out of the hands of the Brown and Goldman families, especially the latter.
LaVergne says, “It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing. Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
The attorney further claims that he especially dislikes the Goldmans because of their longstanding feud with his late client — which includes an issue over Simpson’s book ‘If I Did It.’
LaVergne also notes that Simpson’s total assets are still being compiled, so he’s not even completely sure of how much the estate is worth.
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