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Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Not that there was any doubt in my mind...

I said I didn't do it, but now I'm writing a book describing what I would have done, if I did it. Who am I? If you guessed OJ Simpson, you'd be correct.

Simpson's acquittal on murder charges could be considered the trial of the century. Now Simpson's smugness has reached new bounds after tabloid reports suggest he is penning a half-"hypothetical" account of the decade-old grizzly double murder of his exwife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman.

The National Enquirer reports that the football player-turned-actor was offered US$3.5 million to write about the murders and how they might have happened. "Only that kind of money could have tempted OJ to finally tell the truth," a source told the Enquirer.

Apparently Simpson has nothing to lose at this point due to double jeopardy laws that exempt him from being tried again. But just to be safe, the source said Simpson "prefaced [the] key pages by almost half-heartedly claiming this part of the book is hypothetical," adding, "but I don't think anyone is going to be convinced of that."

The rumoured working title? If I Did It.
http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/OJ+Simpson+If+I+Did+It/Celebs/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=KP23100610&feedname=CP-SHOWBIZ_V2&show=False&number=0&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

Mod Edit:Fixed URL so it doesn't link the entire article.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

The joke is on the system that allows the rich and famous to avoid justice.
Even more absurd is that a probable ex murderer can make a fortune out of writing a book about the crime.

Any chance of a retrial?

cwemory · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea

Interested · Joined: 10 Feb 2003

There's talk of repealing the double jeopardy law in the UK (or has it been repealed already???) due to the advances of modern science which have created a situation where evidence that was once not apparent can be used to solve some crimes once and for all.

Maybe the US will follow suit...

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

I've seen bits and pieces of his behavior over the last ten years that (financial issues aside -- and I'm sure he has them) suggested that this confesssion of whatever degree was coming sooner or later.

Guilty conscience.

See Dostoevsky. See Poe.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I wonder who'll portray him in the movie version?

He did lose the civil case - I'm not sure if that judgment has any bearing on profits derived from book (and movie deals ...) based on the murders -I'm sure that Nicole's (and her co-victim's...) family will try to claim as much as they can legally - or else willingly agree to a lucrative pay-off ...

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

It's probably just a notch-or-two below the NY Times at this point. Another reliable publication, "Moony"-owned Washington Times has also run with the story according to UPI (which I thought went out of business...)

O.J. book deals with Nicole's death
Oct. 22, 2006 at 4:43PM
Eleven years after his acquittal in the California deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, O.J. Simpson describes in a book how he "hypothetically" killed them.
Relatives of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, victims of the headline-grabbing 1994 double murder, expressed frustration that Simpson might profit from the crime, despite his acquittal, The Times of London said Sunday.
Simpson is reportedly being paid $3.5 million for an autobiography in which he discussed his involvement in the murders in hypothetical terms, the Times said.
Details of the book were published in the National Enquirer on the same day that Goldman's father attempt to seize a portion of Simpson's assets as a partial payment of a $33.5 million judgment against the former NFL star after he lost a 1977 civil case, the Times said.
The published account couldn't be verified, but the newspaper provided details of Simpson's account of events, the Times said.
According to the Enquirer, "Simpson prefaces these key pages by ... claiming that this part of the book is 'hypothetical'," the Times said.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061022-035508-2472r.htm

Evidently, the book deal amount is only 10% of the total judgment against him so he's not likely to get much of it ... Actually, UPI has dwindled so much that it's now actually indirectly controlled by Rev. Moon's Unification Church - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

Teufelswacht · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I remember when OJ was acquitted. It was mid afternoon (Friday, right?). I was in the laboratory at university (doing DNA tests, of all things) when the professor stepped in and said, "It's a sad day for science. OJ was found not guilty." My Senegalese classmate just said, "He would have been shot in Africa."

Jay Leno made one particularly funny joke about OJ that I remember, "OJ promisses he will spend all his energy looking for the murderer...one golf course at a time".

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

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Wrong. The joke is on all of us who were raised to believe that the criminal justice system is fair and impartial.

I remember a woman I knew, coming up and telling me "how his acquital was a victory for all black people". I just felt at the time that it was a victory for all rich people.

A black american without his money would have been executed by now or be sitting on death row. Money talks, poverty walks.