Simpson Barred from Spending Book Advance
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - A Los Angeles judge has temporarily barred O.J. Simpson from spending the advance he received for his scrapped book If I Did It.
Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg's ruling yesterday broadened a January restraining order preventing the former football star from spending or transferring money made from any past book or movie deal until the next hearing on Feb. 20.
The father of murder victim Ron Goldman filed a federal lawsuit in December in a bid to seize the alleged $1.1 million paid to Simpson for the book, which hypothetically places him at the scene of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Goldman.
The federal lawsuit was dismissed last month because California District Judge Manuel Real insisted he had no jurisdiction over Florida resident Simpson.
Simpson's lead attorney, Yale Galanter, insists the ruling does not significantly change the status of the case and he expects to prevail at the Feb. 20 hearing.
Simpson was famously acquitted of criminal murder charges in 1995. But a civil jury found him responsible for the two 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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