When the former football Hall of Famer passed away on Wednesday, O.J. Simpson still owed Ron Goldman’s family over $100 million, and Goldman’s family was determined to get their money, according to a recent story.
In 1995, Simpson, then 76 years old, was found not guilty of killing Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, but two years later, a civil court determined that Simpson was liable for almost $33 million.
O.J. Simpson had ballooned the debt to over $100 million over the decades, but he had not paid it off in full, according to Goldman family attorney David Cook, who spoke with the Daily Mail. In reaction to Simpson’s passing, Cook stated,
“We have to start over here,” “We’re going to work on that. There might be something out there.” “We’ve had this problem for a long long time,” he added. “It could be in a trust, it could be probate. It could be all gone.”
For the Goldman family, paying for the civil trial has been a drawn-out and difficult process. Notably, the decision resulted in Simpson’s sports memorabilia being auctioned off for thousands of dollars, raising money for the bereaved family.
In 2007, a bankruptcy court also decided to award the Goldman family the rights to Simpson’s book, which describes how their son’s and Nicole Brown’s deaths would have happened if he had been the murderer.
With some modifications, the Goldmans decided to publish the book as “If I Did it: Confessions of the Killer.”
When the debt reached over 96 million in June 2022, Ron’s father, Fred Goldman, criticized Simpson for only making “relatively small payments” throughout the years, according to TMZ Sports.