Family of Nicole Brown Simpson Wants Book Rights

Posted on April 16, 2007

The estate of Nicole Brown Simpson is seeking a court orderto allow the estate to bid on the book rights for If I Did It, the faux memoir by O.J. Simpson. In the book, Simpson hypothetically explains how he might have killed Simpson and Ron Goldman as the title suggests. The book has already been canceled by HarperCollins. The publisher also fired Judith Regan who was behind the Simpson book.

A The L.A. Times reports that the attorney for the Nicole Brown Simpson estate is seeking to use some of its civil judgment towards bidding on the book. They want to win the bid to make sure the book is never ever published.

Greg K. Hafif, the attorney for the Nicole Brown Simpson estate, said the estate wants the judge in the case to allow it to take a portion of the $33.5-million civil judgment won from O.J. Simpson and use it as a "credit bid" on the book during the auction. He added that the goal would be to "make sure this book is never published."
Hafif called on Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, to join with them in making the bid.But David J. Cook, the lawyer who won a court order in February that gave the Goldmans the rights to the book, objected to the legal maneuver by the estate.
Cook noted that the Goldmans have spent the last decade trying to collect from O.J. Simpson - the judgment has since grown to nearly $40 million - and criticized the Brown estate for coming in so late. Maybe the estate has "a beef with their lawyers," Cook said, "but they didn't have the savvy or the intelligence or whatever to go out and do this."

This is kind of odd, really. We always hear about the Ron Goldman family, but we never hear about the Nicole Brown's family joining in the proceedings. Certainly they should be entitled to the same kind of compensation that Ron Goldman's family is. And what about the kids? They are the greatest losers in all this legal maneuvering.