O.J. Simpson never paid the Goldmans the millions he owed them. Can they finally collect?

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O.J. Simpson never paid the Goldmans the millions he owed them. Can they finally collect?



Fred Goldman, center, and his wife, Patti, leave a courthouse in Santa Monica in 1997 after a jury found football star O.J. Simpson guilty in a civil trial involving the slaying of Goldman’s son, Ronald. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By Hannah Fry
Staff Writer
April 17, 2024 3 AM PT

For the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it has been nearly three decades of court fights, painstaking forensic accounting, detective work and, ultimately, frustration.

The goal: Make O.J. Simpson pay.

A civil court jury in 1997 found Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend and ordered the former football star to pay their families more than $33 million.

They have collected only a tiny fraction of the judgment, which their attorney claims has now ballooned to more than $100 million because of interest.

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2. It works for those who have high priced lawyers who can delay delay delay...

[brush]

3. Etremely doubtful Simpson ever had 33M at one time.

He had and NFL pension and probably some other income source...33M to hand over?

No. And his estate doesn't have that either.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Aren't judgments regarded as debts?

And aren’t all debts to be paid before distribution of an estate?