OJ Simpson 'admits' to murder in new book.

Ruu_Old

This is one of the most ridiculous stories I have heard in a while. Had a great chuckle at this one.

Former sports star and actor O J SIMPSON will be paid around $3.5 million (£1.8 million) for 'admitting' to the killing of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in a sensational new book.
The star plans to publish his autobiography, reportedly under the working title IF I DID IT, in which he will describe how he would have killed his ex-wife and Goldman, in an allegedly fictional manner. Relatives of Brown and Goldman have criticised Simpson's 'hypothetical' description of the 1994 murders, and for making money from the crimes.

DENISE BROWN, Nicole's sister, says, "If this is true, that is blood money and it's evil and disgusting. "Any company that actually pays him for this is just as bad as he is." JONATHAN POLAK, a lawyer representing Goldman in an attempt to recover some of Simpson's earnings, says, "It's horribly frustrating and at the same time demoralising for Fred Goldman and his family, especially when they read about things like this."

Mr.Nice Guy

Crazy stuff. Whatever next? Michael Jackson bringing out a book entitled If I DID THEM?

Ruu_Old

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Crazy stuff. Whatever next? Michael Jackson bringing out a book entitled If I DID THEM?

Haha quality, wouldn't put it past him.

Black Swan

"Money talks and OJ walks."*












*An old quote after the Simpson trials.

cooker3

That is just sickening
worst thing is you know it will be best seller.

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jaaaaaaassssssssssssssuuuuuuuuussssssssssss.
i would admit to killing her as well for $3.5m...who wouldn't.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

This is sick, and the ba$tard is going to make a mint off it!

Dave!

ugh. Boycotting whatever publishing company allows this FTW.

Binomate

Business is business.

skywalker

cooker3 wrote:

That is just sickening
worst thing is you know it will be best seller.

Agrees. That really is ott.

Collie D

Isn't there some knd of law in the UK that prevents this kind of thing? So more than likely this book will only get a US release

eth0_

Collie D wrote:

Isn't there some knd of law in the UK that prevents this kind of thing? So more than likely this book will only get a US release

The UK have banned works of "fiction"? Since when?

Mec-a-nic

Ruu wrote:

This is one of the most ridiculous stories I have heard in a while.

Nope, don't believe it. Where was this quoted?

Since OJ lost the civil suit, all his future earnings (well the first $33m) have to be paid over to the Brown and Goldman family in damages.Tthen he can keep what's left....

Collie D

eth0_ wrote:

The UK have banned works of "fiction"? Since when?

As far as I know there is some kinf of law that bans criminals from making money by selling their stories, no need to be sarcy

justsomebloke

eth0_ wrote:

The UK have banned works of "fiction"? Since when?

I think want collie is talking about is that in England somebody can not make a profit out of their crimes, so somebody can not be paid money to write a book about how the committed a crime. However as he wasn't convicted of the murder he wouldn't fall into this category anyway

scargill

As far as I know there is some kinf of law that bans criminals from making money

OJ is not a criminal though !

Collie D

scargill wrote:

OJ is not a criminal though !

Only in the eyes of the twelve people on that jury

Thanks for clearing that up, jsb, put my thoughts into words

Feral Mutant

He doesn't really need ro write it from a "hypothetical" point of view. In the US you can't be charged with the same murder twice so he can literally dance on Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman's graves singing "I killed them" and nothing would happen, afaik anyway.

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Collie D wrote:

Isn't there some knd of law in the UK that prevents this kind of thing? So more than likely this book will only get a US release

eth0_ wrote:

The UK have banned works of "fiction"? Since when?

Collie D wrote:

As far as I know there is some kinf of law that bans criminals from making money by selling their stories, no need to be sarcy

his not being sarcy... OJ was never convicted of murder, therefore not a criminal, therefore if he does admit to murder it could be considered fiction.

but yes you are quite correct. but that is only the UK...
sure look at yer man "chopper" one of australia's biggest selling authors

Lust4Life

That's just WRONG!
I can't believe publishing houses are still willing to work with him on something like this. They should just let the man fade into destitution.

And the really sad part is that people will buy the damn book!

aidan24326

Go OJ.

Mossy Monk

if someone wants to pay him millions for this then more power to him

Binomate

He was found not guilt, but obviously that's too hard to fathom for some people. Here it is broken down for some. Not guilty is the opposite of guilty.

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Binomate wrote:

He was found not guilt, but obviously that's too hard to fathom for some people. Here it is broken down for some. Not guilty is the opposite of guilty.

incorrect, opposite of guilty is innocent
opposite of not guilty is not innocent:D

fish-head

Well it's quite possible alot of shops won't carry it, so it could be a total flop.

Goodshape

Binomate wrote:

He was found not guilt, but obviously that's too hard to fathom for some people. Here it is broken down for some. Not guilty is the opposite of guilty.

That's right. Back to bed everybody, your government has figured out how it all transpired.. no need for independent thought here, everything is under control.

What time's Gladiators on at?

Ruu_Old

Mec-a-nic wrote:

Nope, don't believe it. Where was this quoted?

Since OJ lost the civil suit, all his future earnings (well the first $33m) have to be paid over to the Brown and Goldman family in damages.Tthen he can keep what's left....

MSNBC for starters. Sure, he'll probably drop into Eason signing copies of the book then we can all have a look at him.

sonic juice

lol

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fish-head wrote:

Well it's quite possible alot of shops won't carry it, so it could be a total flop.

i doubt that... a book with that selling potential and shops wont carry it. no way the poor ould book shops are finding it hard enough to compete with the web besides introducing more web virgins to to delight of buying online.

and besides, why would any businessman not carry a huge seller and throw away big profit, and whats more we will buy it in our troves

MrJoeSoap

He's got some balls!

Froot

Feral Mutant wrote:

He doesn't really need ro write it from a "hypothetical" point of view. In the US you can't be charged with the same murder twice so he can literally dance on Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman's graves singing "I killed them" and nothing would happen, afaik anyway.

That "afaik anyway" is the only reason he hasnt done that yet

ferdi

nordberg, nordberg, nordberg...sign

Well..

If the glove fits.

Maximilian

Sounds as blatently retrospectively opportunistic as Hitlers lesser known work, "Ich liebe Juden"

Sofaspud

Goodshape wrote:

That's right. Back to bed everybody, your government has figured out how it all transpired.. no need for independent thought here, everything is under control.

What time's Gladiators on at?

You see, uhh, what happened was, uhh, the sound of the gunshots, uhh, ricoched off the, uhh, building, so he was, uhh, leaning back to ask what that sound was.

strassenwolf

But I don't understand where he can find the time to get involved in writing books.

He said after the trial that he was going to devote the rest of his life to finding the "real" killers. That must be a very time-consuming task.

But, keep at it OJ. I'm sure we all wish you every success.:p

lomb

i dont think he feels alot of remorse for killing them which is very sad. even if he killed them in the heat of the moment 'accidentally' he wouldnt be doing all these distasteful things.
i dont think he will admit to it even though there is the double jeopardy rule. if they changed the law like they did in the uk, he would be screwed.
but he definately killed them, any fool looking at the evidence would conclude that, he literally got away with double murder. where is columbo when u need him

Dave!

strassenwolf wrote:

But I don't understand where he can find the time to get involved in writing books.

He said after the trial that he was going to devote the rest of his life to finding the "real" killers. That must be a very time-consuming task.

But, keep at it OJ. I'm sure we all wish you every success.:p

Indeed, chasing one's tail is surely a tiresome task!

Mossy Monk

lomb wrote:

any fool looking at the evidence would conclude that, he literally got away with double murder

who needs a jury when the world has you

MrJoeSoap

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/OJFIND2.jpg

monkeyfudge

Ruu wrote:

MSNBC for starters. Sure, he'll probably drop into Eason signing copies of the book then we can all have a look at him.

Actually wasn't it Denis Penis or someone like that who got him to sign an autograph and then they walked away from him towards the camera and unfolded to paper to show 'I DID IT' with OJ's signature at the bottom.

Dave!

monkeyfudge wrote:

Actually wasn't it Denis Penis or someone like that who got him to sign an autograph and then they walked away from him towards the camera and unfolded to paper to show 'I DID IT' with OJ's signature at the bottom.

ROFL! Quality.

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lomb wrote:

but he definately killed them, any fool looking at the evidence would conclude that,

its a pitty the police didn't think that before they started planting more "evidence" to make doubly sure he wouldn't walk...

and as soon as the planted evidence was discovered and exposed, sure he could not be convicted. who was to know what evidance was real and what evidence was planted by police.

Capt'n Midnight

The family sued him and win a $33.5 million award from a wrongful death suit.

How can he earn any money till he has paid off that ?

TBH
OJ vowed to find the real killer.

MFJ

Feral Mutant wrote:

He doesn't really need ro write it from a "hypothetical" point of view. In the US you can't be charged with the same murder twice so he can literally dance on Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman's graves singing "I killed them" and nothing would happen, afaik anyway.

yeah its called "double Jeoparody" and it goes for any crime.....once you have been found innocent they can not be tried for the same crime, but hypotheticly if he was only charged with nicole's murder, then wrote the book, he could then be tried for Ron Goldman's murder and the book would be uesd as evidence against him.

Our man in Havana

He was charged with both murders actually.

Heisenberg.

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CountryWise

the thing i find funny was he was done for nothing, surely a high speed police chase along a major road should have some kind of penalty in itself without even bringing murder into it!

Sp@rtacus

He's been at this sort of caper for years. He has a show in the States called "Juiced" (as in OJ, Orange Juiced... :rolleyes:) which is kind of like "Punk'd" only it's AAaaawful :eek: (well even more awful than Punkd ) Apart from the total cringeworthy not-even-slightly-amusing nature of it, he has sketches which include him trying to sell a pair of leather gloves to random passers-by with the lines "they're great for getting a good strong grip on things, see how well these fit me etc" and trying to sell the white Bronco that he fled in, pointing out bullet holes and other such things. Sickening.

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CountryWise wrote:

the thing i find funny was he was done for nothing, surely a high speed police chase along a major road should have some kind of penalty in itself without even bringing murder into it!

high speed...HIGHSPEED,
did you see the footage of the " high speed " chase.
in one clip you can see an old woman power walking past the OJ's jeep as he is been perused you the whole of the police force.

CountryWise

ok fair enough i may be wrong it wasnt high speed but still he didnt stop for the police......