Well, the verdict is in, and this time the Juice wasn’t so lucky. A judge in L.A. County Superior Court ordered yesterday that the rights to “If I Did It” be auctioned off, and stipulated that if the book should ever be published—or the tv interview with Simpson ever aired—all proceeds would go directly to the Goldman family (and not to that bogus company, Lorraine Brooke Associates, Simpson allegedly set up to avoid paying the Brown/Goldman families the original $880,000 book advance).
“They took a beating in there today,” Goldman family attorney Jonathan Polak told reporters after Tuesday’s hearing in Santa Monica. “The judge was very clear that we get the money in the event this book is ever published….Plus, now there will be a sale to completely divest Simpson of any rights he might hold at this time,” Polak said. “He will never again be in a position to profit from this book.”
Meanwhile, Rush & Molloy reports that “ousted HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan is in Shanghai to sign a TV deal with one of China’s biggest media moguls.”
Which means Simpson is back to being a penniless (though not particularly repentant) murderer, Regan’s back to clawing her way to the top, and we’re still totally floored by that completely fictional Law & Order: S.V.U. episode that had the high-powered publishing character and the murderer/sports hero character having an illicit love affair…while Regan the fictional editrix was in the midst of publishing the acquitted athlete’s hypothetical confession!
Unfortunately for our wild imagainations, however, that was just another case of art imitating complete and utter fiction. Hey, just like O.J.’s book, right?
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