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Family of Murder Victim Ron Goldman Awarded Rights to O.J. Simpson 'If I Did It' Book

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

A federal bankruptcy judge Monday awarded the rights to O.J. Simpson's canceled "If I Did It" book to murder victim Ronald Goldman's family, who say they want to release the book to portray Simpson as a murderer and wife beater.

The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against the former football star ignored complaints from the family of Simpson's murdered ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, who was slain along with her friend Goldman in a brutal 1994 knife attack.

Lawyers for the Brown family had sought a greater share of possible profits from the book.

Simpson was acquitted in a highly-publicized 1995 murder trial but lost civil lawsuits to the Goldman and Brown families.

On Monday, Fred Goldman, Ronald Goldman's father, said he intends to release the book as a measure of justice to portray Simpson as "a wife-beater, as a murderer, written in his own words."

"I guess the bottom line is, after 13 years of trying to get some justice, today is probably the first time we had any sense of seeing light at the end of the tunnel," said Goldman, who attended the hearing with his daughter, Kim. "It's gratifying to see."