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chagrin
06-15-2007, 01:06 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/15/oj.book/index.html

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Go Ron Goldman!

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A Miami bankruptcy judge on Friday gave the father of Ron Goldman the rights to a book by O.J. Simpson that speaks in hypothetical terms about the 1994 murders of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole.

The book, which the former football star titled "If I Did It," may hit stores soon -- but under a new title: "Confessions of a Double Murderer", according to the attorney for Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father.

Simpson's lawyer said Simpson received a $900,000 advance for the book. He retained the rights through a corporation set up in the names of his children, and run by his daughter.

Goldman filed a lawsuit, and the judge determined that he was entitled to the rights as part of a $33.5 million settlement he won in a wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson.

If the book is not published, Simpson could regain the right to sell it, the lawyer said.

In November, after a firestorm of criticism, publisher News Corp. announced it was canceling the book, along with a two-part TV special planned for late that month.

At the time, News Corp.'s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, said he and his company's senior management "agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project."

"We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson," Murdoch said in a written statement.

"If I Did It" was to be published by ReganBooks, and an interview with Simpson was scheduled on the Fox network. Both the publisher and Fox are subsidiaries of News Corp.

Publisher Judith Regan defended the project, saying she considered it tantamount to a confession by the former National Football League star, who was acquitted of the murders in 1995 after a lengthy, controversial trial.

But family members of the victims were incensed, and Regan was fired.

"He's willing to tell the world how he 'would' murder his children's mother and Ron. Sick," Fred Goldman told CNN's "Larry King Live" in an interview.

In June 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman were found outside Brown-Simpson's home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. They had been stabbed to death.

Although O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, a civil suit found him liable for their deaths in 1997, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages.

CNN's Susan Candiotti and Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report.

Mr. Laz
06-15-2007, 01:06 PM
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