O.J. Simpson Wanted to Drop Controversial Book
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - O.J. Simpson is glad his controversial book, If I Did It, has been scrapped, because he felt it was "too much like an admission of guilt."
The former football star was paid a reported $1.1 million for the book, which hypothetically places him at the scene of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
The book was due for release on Nov. 30, but his contract was terminated by News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch 10 days prior to publication--and publisher Judith Regan was fired.
But Simpson insists he never wanted the ghostwritten account to hit stores because it was not a true representation of how he would have acted, had he been involved in the killings.
He says, "I wasn't happy with the hypothetical paragraphs. A ghostwriter wrote the whole thing, and I OK'd it. But there were a lot of inaccuracies about the case and about how I would have done things. But I figure I'd let it go since I didn't kill anyone."
But the 59-year-old insists he has no regrets about the public outcry and the failed lawsuit filed by Ron Goldman's father, which attempted to seize Simpson's profits from If I Did It.
He adds, "I don't care. I got paid just the same."
Simpson was famously acquitted of criminal murder charges in 1995, but a civil jury found him responsible for their deaths and he was subsequently ordered to pay $33.5 million to their heirs--which he has yet to hand over.
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