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TheOldMole
Oct 19 2006 03:37 PM

O.J. Simpson is confessing. Hypothetically, that is.

The former football great, who was acquitted in criminal court 11 years ago of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, reportedly has been paid a whopping $3.5 million to write about the double murder that shocked and riveted the nation in 1994, according to a detailed report in the new National Enquirer.

But Simpson is not actually confessing to the murder — rather, he’s writing a “hypothetical” book — which the Enquirer reports is tentatively being called “If I Did It.”

The early part of the book tells how Simpson fell in love with Nicole and how the marriage collapsed, reports the tab. He goes on, according to the article, to describe in gruesome detail the killing of his ex-wife and Goldman; he stipulates that the murder scenes are “hypothetical.” But, notes the tab, the descriptions are “so detailed and so chillingly realistic” that readers are left with little doubt as to what really happened.

Simpson can never be retried for the murders because of double jeopardy laws, according to the Enquirer, which also claims that Simpson aims to keep any book money instead of paying it out in a civil suit judgment against him by spending it all quickly.

sharpie
Oct 19 2006 03:46 PM

No doubt, however, the Goldman family will serve notice on the publisher and force them to pay the family directly.

Edgy DC
Oct 19 2006 03:49 PM

It's a world full of trash.

Rotblatt
Oct 19 2006 03:51 PM

Edgy DC wrote:
It's a world full of trash.

Yes.

metsmarathon
Oct 19 2006 04:27 PM

today, i am ashamed to be a human.

Edgy DC
Oct 19 2006 04:28 PM

Now tell me what the Mole was doing kicking back with the National Enquirer.

Yancy Street Gang
Oct 19 2006 04:31 PM

Nothing else to think about today.

TheOldMole
Oct 19 2006 04:41 PM

Edgy -- hey, it's worse than that. I used to write for the National Enquirer.

TheOldMole
Oct 19 2006 04:42 PM

I'm with marathon. This sickens me the way that Joel Steinberg did.

Rockin' Doc
Oct 20 2006 12:26 AM

I realize that I am likely in the minority here, but I take comfort in my christian beliefs that OJ will someday pay for his transgressions.

metsmarathon
Oct 20 2006 12:35 AM

if dante were alive today...

metirish
Nov 20 2006 04:30 PM

Canceled........

Nymr83
Nov 20 2006 05:21 PM

OJ might pay someday in the next life, but i wish we could have sent him there quicker with a needle in the arm.
this book is a fuckin joke, i think we should pass the 28th Amendment, which would rewrite the 5th to read in relevant part "...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy, except when said person shall subsequently attempt to profit from that crime..."