OJ Simpson's estate has accepted a $58 million settlement from father Ron Goldman, decades after a jury said the football and movie star was responsible for the man's fatal stabbing.
But that doesn't mean Fred Goldman will raise anywhere near that much money. The executor of Simpson's estate said he still hopes to increase his total assets from $500,000 to $1 million.
“It won't be $58 million plus interest, but it will be a voluntary payment. That's the whole point,” Malcolm LaVergne said Monday.
Simpson died of prostate cancer in 2024 at the age of 76. He was found not guilty of stabbing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles in 1994.
But Simpson was put on trial again and found guilty of causing the death in a separate civil case. He was ordered to pay the families $33.5 million, with interest increasing.
Fred Goldman hounded Simpson for years and claimed that he never voluntarily paid anything.
LaVergne accepted the claim for $58 million, but not the $117 million requested, according to a court document filed Friday in Clark County, Nevada. Acceptance of a claim means that there will be no lengthy legal proceedings.
Fred Goldman's lawyer Michelle Rafferty said the heirs accepted the claim as valid, but “it is not a payment.”
“We will continue to monitor the probate proceedings closely,” she said in an email.
Simpson was living in a gated golf course community in Las Vegas after serving nine years in prison for armed robbery, kidnapping and assault, all of which stemmed from a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a hotel room. He generally refused to discuss his finances, except to say that he lived on his pension.
