Simpson's Book to Be Published by Family
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Monday, July 23, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - O.J. Simpson's controversial book If I Did It could be repackaged and sold by the family of Ron Goldman, according to court papers.
The former football star was due to release the book--in which he hypothetically places himself at the scene of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Goldman in 1994--last year, but it was withdrawn by its publisher 10 days before its launch.
Next week, Goldman's father, Fred, will ask a federal bankruptcy court judge in Miami to ratify a deal that would give him the rights to the memoirs--and he plans to repackage it for a new publisher.
He says, "This is the first opportunity we have ever had to take an asset from the killer."
Goldman wants sales from the book to pay some of the $38 million Simpson owes him from the wrongful-death ruling in 1997.
Lawyers for Nicole's estate plan to fight an agreement giving Goldman the rights, arguing that the two families should share them.
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