OJ Simpson lawyer reverses decision on suit payout to families of Nicole Brown, Ron Goldman
The executor of OJ Simpson’s estate on Monday reversed course on his pledge last week to do “everything in my capacity” to prevent the families of the former football star’s ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman from receiving a $33.5 million payout.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne said he wanted to walk back comments that he made last week, in which he expressed hope that “the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” and vowed that he would do “everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
“I can tell you in advance, Fred Goldman’s claim will be accepted. And his claim will be handled in accordance with Nevada law,” LaVergne told the Hollywood Reporter.
He went on to say that his comments last week in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal were not directed at Fred Goldman, but instead at the attorneys who are representing him.
“Within an hour of knowing that OJ died, he started talking s–t,” LaVergne said of Goldman’s lawyer. “My advocate instinct, [it] was, ‘Oh, you’re gonna keep s–tting on him even after he’s dead? Fine, you know? You get nothing.’
“And so those were my remarks then. But I backtracked and they were pretty harsh remarks. And now I’m going in the other direction.”
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Simpson died of cancer on Wednesday at the age of 76, without paying the majority of a civil judgment that was awarded to Goldman’s family in 1997 after jurors found him liable in Ron’s death.
