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OJ Simpson’s eye-watering debt to Nicole Brown’s family

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Bang Showbiz,
Publish Date
Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 4:31pm
OJ Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994. Photo / AP
OJ Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994. Photo / AP

OJ Simpson’s eye-watering debt to Nicole Brown’s family

Author
Bang Showbiz,
Publish Date
Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 4:31pm

OJ Simpson听is said to have died owing more than US$100 million ($168m) to the families of his butchered ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.

The former NFL player, dubbed 鈥淭he Juice鈥, died on Wednesday, April 10, aged 76 after a prostate cancer fight.

An attorney chasing the missing cash has now said Simpson passed away without giving 鈥減enance鈥 to the slaughtered pair鈥檚 families after he was ordered to pay them millions of dollars in compensation when he was found liable for their deaths in a civil case, following his acquittal in 1995 in a criminal trial.

Lawyer David Cook told the听Daily Mail:听鈥淗e died without penance. We don鈥檛 know what he has, where it is or who is in control.

鈥淲e will pick up where we are and keep going with it.鈥

He added about hoping to find cash in Simpson鈥檚 estate: 鈥淚s there money to be had? Hopefully. Do I know exactly what it is? No, but we鈥檒l figure that out soon.

鈥淩on Goldman is gone, murdered. We have to fight on for him.

OJ Simpson and his ex-wife Nicole Brown. Photo / Getty ImagesOJ Simpson and his ex-wife Nicole Brown. Photo / Getty Images

鈥淲e鈥檝e had this problem for a long, long time. It could be in a trust, it could be probate. It could be all gone.鈥

Simpson was arrested in 1994 for the murders of Brown, 35, and waiter Goldman, 25, at her Los Angeles home and was sensationally acquitted after听an 11-month trial in which his US$50,000-a-day, nine-strong 鈥淒ream Team鈥 line-up of defence attorneys argued police mishandled DNA evidence.

Even though Simpson was spared jail, a separate civil trial jury found the former NFL player-turned actor liable for the deaths in 1997 and ordered him to pay US$33.5 million to their families.

The Goldman family had been pursuing the money up to the point of Simpson鈥檚 death after reportedly only receiving US$123,000.

Debt collection attorney David Cook who is working for Goldman鈥檚 dad said the debt with interest has now grown to more than US$100m.

Simpson was living in a US$3.6m, five-bedroom house while he battled cancer.

In 2017, it was alleged he had transferred money to his children Sydney, 38, and Justin Simpson, 35, to avoid payment of his civil compensation debt, but they deny the claim.

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