OJ Simpson died owing his murder victim’s family more than $100 million, and they say they’re still chasing the money.
Simpson, who died in Nevada on Wednesday at age 76, was found liable in civil court for $33.5 million for the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in 1997. The Goldman family has been chasing the mounting debt ever since. .
An attorney for Ron’s father, Fred, said that because of Simpson’s nonpayment, the debt with interest has ballooned to more than $100 million, and said he will “work to” collect as much as they can from Simpson’s estate. even after Juice’s death.
“We have to start over here,” said debt collection attorney David Cook. ‘Let’s work on that. There might be something out there.
“We’ve had this problem for a long time,” he added. ‘It could be a trust, it could be an estate. Everything could have disappeared.
OJ Simpson owes $100 million to the families of his murder victims, and DailyMail.com can reveal the families will raise what they can from the NFL star’s estate.
OJ Simpson was found liable in civil court for $33.5 million for the murders of Ron Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Simpson in 1997.
Ron Goldman’s father Fred (centre) told DailyMail.com that OJ Simpson’s death is “yet another reminder of the loss of my son”. Fred, his daughter Kim and his wife Patty pictured in court during the trial.
Since his 1997 sentencing for the 1994 murders, the Goldmans have garnished Simpson’s income and sued him several times to recover money he earned from television shows and his book, If I Did It. Fred is pictured with his daughter Kim.
The lawyer added: ‘I’m in San Francisco. The lawyers we hired in Nevada were working with me…At this point, we’re just getting started.’
Fred, 83, is still furious and told DailyMail.com that the focus should be on his son’s death, not OJ’s.
OJ Simpson pictured in a mugshot following his arrest in Los Angeles, California, in June 1994.
“The only thing I have to say today is that this is one more reminder of the loss of my son Ron,” the heartbroken father said. ‘It is yet another reminder of my son’s murder and of the many years we have missed Ron.
‘His death is a reminder that Ron and Nicole were murdered by him. I’m not going to react to my thoughts about his death. I have nothing to say about him. My answer will not be about OJ’s death but about the loss of my son’s life because of him. Thanks for calling. That’s all I have to say.’
The last legal filings Goldman lawyers made were in June 2022, when they claimed that OJ still owed more than $96 million and had paid only $133,000 since 1997.
Since his 1997 sentencing for the 1994 murders, the Goldmans have garnished Simpson’s income and sued him several times to recover money he earned from television shows and his book, If I Did It.
In his interview with DailyMail.com, Cook described how he renewed the sentence in 2015, putting it at $57 million.
Two years later, when OJ was released from a Nevada prison after serving nine years for a robbery and kidnapping conviction, he estimated the debt was “a little less than $70 million.”
And in March 2021, a Nevada garnishment case listed the “amount owed” by Simpson as “$75,164,425.74.”
Court documents from 1992 regarding his separation from his murdered wife Nicole said his net worth at the time was $10.8 million, with a monthly income of $55,000.
But according to documents filed by the Goldmans, he has only paid them $133,000 since obtaining the judgment against him.
Goldman (pictured with her daughter and son) described Simpson’s death as “not a big loss.”
Simpson (pictured at his 1995 trial) became one of America’s most infamous figures after being accused of murder.
OJ avoided paying the Goldmans by filing for bankruptcy in Florida, and his annual NFL pension of between $125,000 and $300,000 was protected from debt collection claims.
He also had $42,000 a year in Social Security.
Cook and his colleagues have previously investigated the assets of Simpson’s children, including alleged real estate purchases in Florida.
But now that the former NFL star has died, the attorney said they will examine the trusts and possibly file them in Nevada probate court to recover the money.
‘I’ve done this job for 47 years. We don’t know what’s in Nevada. “We’ve had this problem for a long, long time,” he said.
“You can be surprised, you can walk up to something and say there’s nothing there.”