Even if a Nevada parole board rules that O.J. Simpson has paid his debt to society for his armed-robbery caper, he’ll still owe a massive civil judgment involving the two 1994 murders to which he’ll forever be connected.
The Juice has made barely a “dent” in the $33.5 million debt that a Southern California civil jury ordered him to pay to the families of slain ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman. O.J. was acquitted of their deaths at criminal trial but found liable in civil court.
Lawyers chasing Simpson’s millions say his financial team has been masterful in shielding his assets from collection.
The biggest problem is that nearly all of the money is sitting in pension funds immune from judgments.
After an initial raid to seize valuables from Simpson’s home in 1997, lawyers for Goldman’s family have been the most aggressive in squeezing The Juice.
Goldman’s relatives have attacked Simpson’s movie royalties, secured rights to his book “If I Did It” and grabbed a handful of small bank accounts that came to their attention.
David Cook — a collection lawyer for Ron’s dad, Fred Goldman — would only say Wednesday that Simpson has so far yielded in the “six digits.” In 2014, Ron’s sister Kim Goldman said O.J. has paid less than 1 percent of his civil debt.
“I have a difficult job,” Cook told The Post Wednesday. “My job is to collect on his civil judgment and not let the flame of Ron Goldman’s memory go out.”
Cook predicted that if paroled Thursday, O.J. would try to earn money in media appearances — and insist that it be paid into off-shore shell companies not in his name.
Simpson “has one of the world’s three most recognizable names right now — his, the guy sitting in the White House and Vladimir Putin,” Cook said. “When you have a name brand like this, you’re going to monetize it.”
In order to find a financial needle in an off-shore haystack, Cook said he would need intelligence on the production companies paying Simpson and then the names of his shell companies.
The lawyer promised to keep up the pressure. “The good news for Mr. Simpson is he’s [probably] going to get out of jail,” said Cook, 67. “The bad news is I’m in pretty good health.”
A rep for the Brown family could not immediately be reached for comment.