father Ron Goldman Closer to getting some money from OJ Simpson, though it won’t be the millions a jury awarded decades ago when the late football and movie star was found responsible for the young man’s fatal stabbing.
Simpson’s estate accepted a $58 million claim from Fred Goldman, an amount far exceeding its assets.
“It will not be $58 million plus interest, but it will be a voluntary payment. That’s the important point,” Malcolm Lavergne, the estate’s executor, said Monday.
Lavergne said he still hopes to raise between $500,000 and $1 million in total assets.
Simpson He died of prostate cancer In 2024 at the age of 76 Found not guilty In 1994, his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ron Goldman were knifed to death in Los Angeles.
But Simpson was taken to court again and found guilty of responsibility for the deaths in a separate civil case. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families, an award that has grown with interest.
Fred Goldman pursued Simpson for years and maintained that he never paid anything willingly.
Lavergne accepted a claim for $58 million, according to a court document filed Friday in Clark County, Nevada, but not $117 million, the requested number. Accepting the claim indicates that there will not be any time-consuming litigation over it.
Fred Goldman’s lawyer, Michael Rafferty, said the estate accepted the claim as valid but “does not constitute payment.”
“We will continue to monitor the probate proceedings closely,” she said in an email.
Simpson lived in a gated golf course community in Las Vegas after serving nine years in prison for armed robbery, kidnapping and assault, all connected to a confrontation with… Two sports memorabilia dealers In a hotel room. He has typically declined to discuss his finances other than to say he lives on pensions.