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O.J.'s Rolex: It's a Fake!
TMZ.com ^ | 10/05/07 | TMZ

Posted on 10/05/2007 4:57:11 PM PDT by arbooz

Getting some measure of justice is proving difficult -- yet again -- for Fred Goldman.

The Goldman's lawyers seized a watch from O.J. (after seeing it on TMZ) to pay off the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment against him. But it isn't a Rolex like they hoped -- it's a knock-off from China, worth about $100.

If the watch were a genuine Rolex, it would have been worth as much as $22,000. But now they have to return the watch to Simpson, since it falls under an exemption in the judgment -- for jewelry worth less than $6,075.

Goldman recently won the rights to O.J.'s hypothetical confession book, "If I Did it," which has gone on to become a New York Times bestseller.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fake; oj; rolex; simpson
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1 posted on 10/05/2007 4:57:15 PM PDT by arbooz
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To: arbooz

My dad got his Rolex off a man standing on a street corner for seven dollars (talked him down from ten).


2 posted on 10/05/2007 4:59:22 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: arbooz
for jewelry worth less than $6,075

On E-Bay, it might pull in considerably more than that.
3 posted on 10/05/2007 4:59:32 PM PDT by adorno
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To: arbooz

If he can kill a wife, he can pull a fake watch out of his azz and hide the real one next to the knife.


4 posted on 10/05/2007 5:01:44 PM PDT by rineaux (Just say NO to taglines)
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To: arbooz

The red ‘breaking news’ banner. LOL.


5 posted on 10/05/2007 5:02:11 PM PDT by jdm
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To: arbooz

I hope O.J. paid $22,000 for it.


6 posted on 10/05/2007 5:02:22 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: arbooz

Didn’t he retitle his book “I Did It?” I know 100% that I saw a photo of “I Did It” on either MSNBC or FOX last week. I was shocked because the word “if” was missing from the title.


7 posted on 10/05/2007 5:03:27 PM PDT by jdm
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To: arbooz

Pretty smart... sending the fake instead of the real one.

[snicker]


8 posted on 10/05/2007 5:04:18 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: 1rudeboy
My dad bought my mother one when on an overseas trip.
It quit working so she took it to a jeweler for repair.
The guy returned from the back holding it like a decomposing rat and said "Madam, Rolex watches do NOT have a battery."
My mother wasn't amused.
9 posted on 10/05/2007 5:05:08 PM PDT by red-dawg
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To: arbooz
A fake! Maybe OJ is smarter than he seems and is a great shopper.

Next time, I'll send him out for a Chanel purse, Gucci scarf, and Tiffany charm bracelet.

But if it's a fake, isn't he breaking the law by buying counterfeit goods?

10 posted on 10/05/2007 5:05:33 PM PDT by MHT
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To: arbooz

hilarious


11 posted on 10/05/2007 5:06:39 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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Hey, where the white women at?
12 posted on 10/05/2007 5:06:46 PM PDT by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken)
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To: red-dawg

ROTFLMAO—the quickest way to tell whether a Rolex is fake is by watching the second hand.


13 posted on 10/05/2007 5:09:41 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: jdm

I think on the book’s cover they sorta hid “if” in small script on top of another letter.


14 posted on 10/05/2007 5:10:33 PM PDT by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken)
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To: arbooz
since it falls under an exemption in the judgment -- for jewelry worth less than $6,075.

How the heck did they come up with that figure? Why not $6,050?


15 posted on 10/05/2007 5:11:21 PM PDT by OCC
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To: OCC

Probably started originally at $6,000 and now it’s adjusted for inflation...Total lunacy.


16 posted on 10/05/2007 5:13:43 PM PDT by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken)
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To: Ramius
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"You wouldn't lie to me, now would you?"
17 posted on 10/05/2007 5:16:06 PM PDT by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken)
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To: adorno
On E-Bay, it might pull in considerably more than that.

That is a seriously valid point. An appraiser could determine a market price for "the watch that OJ was forced to turn over" and surely it would fetch a handsome price.

18 posted on 10/05/2007 5:17:42 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yah? How so? I don’t know nuthin’ bout dem rolexes.

I think that nomatter how wealthy I might ever become I will always have something better to do with 10 or 20 thousand than to buy a freakin’ watch.


19 posted on 10/05/2007 5:26:13 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: 1rudeboy

“the quickest way to tell whether a Rolex is fake is by watching the second hand.” ............ The second hand on the good self wind fakes don’t stagger they go around without stopping. The high end fakes look as good as the real one. They call them replicas now. In OJ’s case he probably had someone switch the real one for the fake.


20 posted on 10/05/2007 6:12:15 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: arbooz

somehow, “phoney Rolex” just has a new meaning now


21 posted on 10/05/2007 6:14:49 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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