O.J. Simpson allegedly died thousands and thousands of {dollars} in debt to Ron Goldman‘s household. An lawyer for Goldman’s household spoke out following the 76-year-old’s dying this week and claimed that Simpson’s debt accrued in curiosity over the previous few many years.
“He died with out penance,” Goldman’s father’s lawyer, David Prepare dinner, informed PEOPLE. “He didn’t wish to give a dime, a nickel to Fred, by no means, something, by no means.”
The outlet reported that Simpson was ordered to pay Goldman and ex-wife Nicole Brown‘s households $33.5 million after being discovered liable in a wrongful dying lawsuit in 1997. Prepare dinner alleged that the debt now racks as much as $114 million after rising in curiosity. He additionally famous that the court docket judgment had been renewed in 2022.
Ron Goldman’s household arriving in court docket (Getty Pictures)
PEOPLE reported that authorized paperwork from the yr of 2022 revealed that Simpson had solely paid the Goldman household $133,000 since 1997. Prepare dinner added, “He [still] owes on the present standing of the judgment.”
The lawyer additionally identified that the Goldman household is trying into hiring legal professionals within the states of Nevada, Florida and California to determine the place Simpson’s cash will likely be now that he’s useless.
“We have to get a lawyer or numerous legal professionals who take care of this, very good individuals to find out who it’s or who it will be, and [start] taking depositions from individuals and/or discovering out who they’re and what info we want,” Prepare dinner defined to the outlet. “It’s an enormous deal.”
On April tenth, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with most cancers.
He was surrounded by his youngsters and grandchildren.
Throughout this time of transition, his household asks that you just please respect their needs for privateness and charm.
On June 12, 1994, Simpson’s ex-wife, Brown, and her pal Goldman have been stabbed to dying exterior of her dwelling in Los Angeles. Simpson was charged with their murders however was later acquitted following a months-long trial that spanned from 1994 to 1995.
Though Simpson was acquitted, Fred Goldman filed a civil lawsuit in opposition to the previous athlete in 1997. The jury on the time discovered that Simpson was liable for Brown and Ron Goldman’s deaths.
Simpson’s youngsters broke the information of their late father’s dying on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Following their announcement, Fred Goldman supplied an announcement to a number of shops, noting, “That is only a reminder for us of how lengthy Ron has been gone, how lengthy now we have missed him and nothing greater than that. That’s the solely factor that’s vital as we speak. It’s the ache from then till now. There’s nothing as we speak that’s extra vital than the lack of my son and the lack of Nicole. Nothing is extra vital than that.”
