Posted on 07/30/2024 3:41:45 PM PDT by george76
Twenty-seven years after a civil jury declared O.J. Simpson was “responsible” for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the Goldman family is still waiting for their full payment.
Fred Goldman, father of Ron, on Thursday filed a creditor’s claim against Simpson’s estate, demanding he be paid the full US$117 million (C$162 million) amount owed to him in connection with the verdict in the 1997 wrongful death lawsuit filed after the death of his son.
Though Simpson was acquitted in a criminal court, he was ordered to pay US$33.5 million (C$46.4 million) to the Goldman family after the Los Angeles civil trial. The court determined the disgraced athlete “willingly and wrongfully” caused both deaths.
Fred filed the new creditor’s claim in Nevada.
The court documents say the claim was renewed three times before, in 2006, 2015 and 2022. The last renewal saw the amount owed increase to US$96.3 million (C$133.4 million), with US$20.6 million (C$28.5 million) in interest accrued since then.
Simpson died in April at age 76 from cancer.
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His death came 30 years after Simpson’s ex-wife Brown Simpson, 35, and her friend Rob, 25, were found stabbed to death outside her L.A. home. The ex-Buffalo Bills player was accused of perpetrating the double murder.
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Fred told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Simpson “never paid a penny” of the amount owed to the Goldman family.
It is not clear what Simpson’s estate is currently worth.
In the days after Simpson’s death, his longtime lawyer and estate executor said he would “do everything in my capacity” to make sure the Goldman family gets nothing from Simpson’s estate. Lawyer Malcolm LaVergne later had a change of heart and said he will have the Goldman’s claim “accepted” and “handled in accordance with Nevada law.”
Can’t even squeeze anything out of the deadbeat when he’s dead
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was buried with all his money to keep it from the victim’s families
OJ trial and Barry Soetoro ended racial healing .
[thinking]...yeah, things were pretty cool during the era of Beverly Hills Cop and the Celtics/Lakers thing.
no, wait: Busing in the 1970’s. The 80’s were just a rebound.
OJ was guilty, but the jury wasn’t going to convict no matter what the evidence.
Goldman was smart to keep these liens renewed.
I thought they won a 47M dollar civil suit. Just collect it.
Good for him. I hope he is successful.
I thought they won a 47M dollar civil suit. Just collect it.
I thought they won a 47M dollar civil suit. Just collect it.
Clickbait Headline: “Ron Goldman’s father demands $162M from O.J. Simpson’s estate”
Non-Clickbait: Ron Goldman’s father renews claim for $162M from O.J. Simpson’s estate
In CA the judgment carries simple interest of 10%. It adds up
You can say that again. Wait. You just did. Three times.
Whatever O.J. Simpson had, I am sure he had expert legal advice and put all of that in trust to his children, and those trust can’t be touched. Whatever assets Simpson had in his name that will be all there is the probate court. Can’t give them something that he doesn’t have at time of death.
I’d like to see the probate filings on this one and they are public information. Anyone who wants to call the probate office in Las Vegas and get a copy of whatever has been filed
I thought I heard way back that he had transferred all of his assets to his children prior to the civil judgment to avoid paying a dime in claims.
Had OJ been tried in the Santa Monica courthouse where he was supposed to be tried because of the location of the crime, he most likely would have been found guilty due to the racial composition of the jury. Instead, the stupid DA at the time, as I recall it was John Van Decamp, decided to move the trial to the LA downtown courthouse. He claimed it was for better security. That courthouse has a different jury racial makeup which had a reputation of being problematical for both criminal and civil trials.
Ron Goldman, destroyed his own soul in search of vengeance.
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